Leadership
Hiring Managers
Critical Care Specialists
Capital Health
750 Brunswick Avenue
Trenton, NJ 08638
Dear Hiring Managers:
I would like to be a nurse manager in the NeuroScience ICU for Capital Health. Your advertisement on NursePath.com on Thursday, December 8, 2011, intrigued me. Vicki Teske, MS, RN, GNP-BC, of the Nursing Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead, recommended your company to me a highly respected healthcare facility. Please accept this letter and enclosed resume as my application for the advertised position.
I will graduate from Minnesota State University Moorhead in May 2012, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Although I do not have a minimum of three years of managerial critical care experience, as the advertisement stated was needed, I have completed a nurse management course that has given me skills and experience that are needed in this type of work. I have developed my own philosophical approach to management and will explain in the subsequent paragraphs.
Accountability will no doubt play an important role in this position. Yoder-Wise (2011) explains accountability as “the expectation of explaining actions and results” (p. 608). As a nurse manager I will expect my staff to be accountable for their actions. I will also expect myself to be accountable to those above me in administration. If a mistake is made on the unit, I will be held accountable, because I am legally held responsible for activities I delegate. To keep a high morale among the unit, I want to be viewed as accountable by my staff. This means that I will always finish projects I start, take accountability for positive and negative events, and always be available to answer questions and concerns (Yoder-Wise, 2011, p. 539-540).
Promoting professionalism will be another essential feature of my approach to managing. Accountability and professionalism really go hand in hand, because when I am accountable, I am professional. I will also encourage my
Critical Care Specialists
Capital Health
750 Brunswick Avenue
Trenton, NJ 08638
Dear Hiring Managers:
I would like to be a nurse manager in the NeuroScience ICU for Capital Health. Your advertisement on NursePath.com on Thursday, December 8, 2011, intrigued me. Vicki Teske, MS, RN, GNP-BC, of the Nursing Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead, recommended your company to me a highly respected healthcare facility. Please accept this letter and enclosed resume as my application for the advertised position.
I will graduate from Minnesota State University Moorhead in May 2012, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Although I do not have a minimum of three years of managerial critical care experience, as the advertisement stated was needed, I have completed a nurse management course that has given me skills and experience that are needed in this type of work. I have developed my own philosophical approach to management and will explain in the subsequent paragraphs.
Accountability will no doubt play an important role in this position. Yoder-Wise (2011) explains accountability as “the expectation of explaining actions and results” (p. 608). As a nurse manager I will expect my staff to be accountable for their actions. I will also expect myself to be accountable to those above me in administration. If a mistake is made on the unit, I will be held accountable, because I am legally held responsible for activities I delegate. To keep a high morale among the unit, I want to be viewed as accountable by my staff. This means that I will always finish projects I start, take accountability for positive and negative events, and always be available to answer questions and concerns (Yoder-Wise, 2011, p. 539-540).
Promoting professionalism will be another essential feature of my approach to managing. Accountability and professionalism really go hand in hand, because when I am accountable, I am professional. I will also encourage my