ALLIGNMENT OF INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS

1. ALLIGNMENT OF INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS INFLUENCE OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

2. Introduction • Alignment of organizational and nurse values increases competitive advantage. • Alignment offer optimal balance between the patient-related activities and the goals of the hospital. • It also helps informulation of a collective mission statement (Lipe & Beasley, 2004). • Effective communication at the individual level helps in overcoming workplace challenges.

3. Collective Mission • Creation of a constructive organizational culture is not easy. • Alignment leads to creation of a defined sense of purpose. • The sense of collectivity is critical to meeting the varied needs of the patients. • Alignment createssynergies that enable the individual nurse to contribute his/her strength in providing patient service (Lipe & Beasley, 2004). • The alignment is important in creating the awareness that help in resolving problems pertinent to patient care.

4. Benefits of the Alignment • Alignment enhances the delivery of care. • Helps in thecreation of a healthy work environment. • One of the benefits is identification of pressing challenges in the organization. • This helps in initiation of discussion that lead to development of mitigating approaches. • Alignment helps in enhancing organizational commitment that fulfils the needs of the patient (McCabe, Timmins, & Campling, 2006).

5. Alignment and Patient-Oriented Care • The alignment creates a strong human resource management. • This is critical in creating a culture that has a strong patient service orientation. • Greater commitment in patient service empowers the nurses to perform better in their jobs. • Patients are the beneficiaries of the excellent services induced by alignment (McCabe, Timmins, & Campling, 2006). • Alignment deciphers the ethical obligations of the healthcare organization.

6. Effective Communication • Effective communication is critical to the success of many health care organizations. • Effective communication in nursing is an important glue that maintains the stability of the profession. • Understandably, it is important to stress the advantages of effective communication in enhancing patient safety. • Effective communication help in avoiding tendencies causing serious medical errors.

7. OvercomingWorkplace Challenges • Effective communication eliminatesmisunderstanding that culminate to conflicts. • Effective communication skills helps inbuilding trust and respect. • Effective communication helps in overcoming challenges of reduced teamwork spirit (Roussel, 2013). • It enhances quick decision-making in healthcare organization. • Theskill is essential when communicating difficult messages (for instance, loss of a loved one).

8. Effective Communication and Collaboration • Health organizations require nurses to complete projects involving collaborative efforts. • Working as a team has many benefits such as timely finishing of the assigned task. • Effective communication help in eliminating the stress associated with teamwork. • Effective communication helps in building harmony and trust in the working environment (Roussel, 2013). • Collaboration through effective communication ensures that the projects undertaken come to fruition.

9. Effective Communication in Problem Solving • Effective communication helps in decision-making and problem-solving. • Brainstorming sessions before resuming a certain task is a basic example of effective communication. • Good communication skills helps in problem identification then coming up with the possible solution (Roussel, 2013). • Effective communication helps in exploration of ideas that would lead to possible outcome in work-related issues.

10. Personal Experience • There are many instances where organizational values and individual nurses do not align. • I have experienced instances where there is lack of involvement of nurses in decision-making. • Lack of engagement leads to adverse repercussions. • One of the repercussion is decreased morale. • Consequently, the patient losses due to reduced centered care that arises from a demotivated nurse.

11. Conclusion • Alignment contributes toprosperity of the organization. • Organizational values on paper leads tounproductive working environment. • Lack of aligmentstalls progress of health organization (Lipe & Beasley, 2004). • An important factor in the alignment is effective communication. • Effective communication leads to development of a collaborative work environment that is constructive.

12. References • Lipe, S. K., & Beasley, S. (2004). Critical thinking in nursing: A cognitive skills workbook. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. • McCabe, C., Timmins, F., & Campling, J. (2006). Communication skills for nursing practice. Basingstoke [England: Palgrave Macmillan. • Roussel, L. (2013). Management and leadership for nurse administrators. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.