HI john
In answer to your question.
No the manager of an OH depart is not required to be OH qualified. I have come across this on many occasions throughout my career as an OHA. As long as the individual is a competent manager- then they are equipped to do the job. Clearly the clinicians should be appropriately qualified, but in my opinion the manager is there to manage & achieve the business objectives which are set from their managers. In my experience some Ova's are not very effective as managers but excel in other areas.
However I am sure that some with disagree with me, but hand on experience is proof.
Kind Regards
Jane
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Sent: 29 June 2011 09:33
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Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] comments & opinions pls
An OH student has recently raised some interesting questions and issues that I have decided to share here and hopefully get some useful different insights:
Does the NMC stipulate that person on Part 3 of register must be supervised or managed by fellow Part 3 nurse only?
Can an OH dept be managed by an RGN with no OH experience or qualification? - this worried me as the student is aware of a dept where this happens. An inexperienced and unqualified nurse manager was redeployed into the role. The issues here are that the dept staff feel the reputation of OH has been damaged as the Mng practices according to her Nurse Mng knowlege and not from OH experience or understanding
So must a manager of Part 3 nurse be on Part 3 themselves?
is this considered desirable? essential?
Look fwd to ideas, comments and opinions
Best Wishes
John
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