Adult-Transplant Nurse Manager

Introduction

I have chosen to interview an Adult-Transplant Nurse Manager for this paper. The Transplant Nurse Manager is responsible for the total planning and directing of the daily operations of the Transplant Unit in order to meet the needs of the unit patients, patient’s families and nursing staff. The Nurse Manager also is responsible for the unit’s budget, and serves to maintain a close professional relationship between physicians and nurses. The Nurse Manager assures all nursing staff are up to date in required education and proficiencies ("Nurse Manager," 2013). The Transplant Nurse Manager is required to have a California Registered Nurse license, a Master’s Degree in Nursing, national certification, and a minimum number of years’ experience ("Nurse Manager," 2013).

Overview of master’s prepared nurse’s career

My chose interviewee has been a Nurse Manager for approximately 6-months. She states that her mother is a Registered Nurse as well as one of her sisters and that she has known since high school that she wanted to have a career in nursing. After High School, she attended Clemson University in South Carolina from 1995-2001. Her undergraduate major at Clemson was in nursing. After graduation from Clemson, she initially worked as a staff nurse at the Greenville Health System for two years. Upon leaving the Greenville Health System, the interviewee wanted to travel and see the country. She gained employment with Cross Country Travel Corps and worked for them for 5-years. During this time, she traveled to many cities and worked in many hospital settings across the Southern United States. She finally ended up in Southern California and found the hospital system she wanted to have a career with. To get permanent employment with that hospital she had to leave it for several months. She states it was a difficult decision because she did not want to leave the ICU she was working in, and that she did not want to return to Travel Nursing. The interviewee took a job with a different Travel company for almost a year. Upon return to the hospital she liked so much, she obtained a positon in the Trauma/Surgical ICU for two-years and took a promotion positon in the Neuro ICU. In this positon, she was responsible for the educational needs of the Registered Nurses in the Neuro ICU.

In 2008 the interviewee won the positon as an Administrator on Duty working the night shift. In this positon, she was the right-hand person for the Nursing Director of the hospital dealing with all the nursing issues of the hospital from 7PM to 730AM. Soon after starting her Administrator on Duty position, she knew she would have to obtain a Master’s of Nursing Degree to keep the positon and to have further growth in the health system. She states she felt lucky to get the AOD position because the position had a requirement of the