Insurance claims specialists may work in a variety of industries, including auto, property and life insurance. Many claims specialists work for health insurance companies, ensuring that the costs of a particular treatment are reasonable depending on the diagnosis a patient received. In such a case, a claims specialist may consider common treatments, expected hospital stay and disability time.
HUTCHINSON M and JACKSON D. Nursing Inquiry 2013; 20: 11â22. Transformational leadership in nursing: towards a more critical interpretation. Effective nurse leadership is positioned as an essential factor in achieving optimal patient outcomes and workplace enhancement. Over the last two decades, writing and research on nursing leadership has been dominated by one conceptual theory, that of transformational leadership. This theoretical framework has provided insight into various leader characteristics, with research findings presented as persuasive evidence.
Leaders are creative and innovative; utilizing their personal influence to empower others and challenging the status quo. The following article employs the letters in the word LEADERSHIP as an acronym to outline the ten learnable characteristics of all nurses as leaders: 1. LIFE-LONG LEARNER âLeadership and learning are indispensable to each other.â â John F. Kennedy. Preparing to become a nurse begins long before the first day of nursing school. Acceptance into nursing school requires achieving superior grades in a wide variety of subjects. Once in nursing school, students are challenged by rigorous academic and clinical workloads.