Nursing in the organization

1. Definition

-Organization develops as goals become too complex for an individual and have to be divided
into units that individuals can manage.

-Fayol referred to the organizing element of management as the form of the body corporate and
stated that the organization takes on form when the number of workers rises to the level
requiring a supervisor. It is necessary to group people, to distribute duties and adapt the organic
whole requirements by putting essential employees where they will be most useful. The body
corporate of the nursing organization includes the executive management and its staff,
departmental managers (middle managers), technical managers (first line managers) and
practicing professional and technical nursing personnel. In theory of nursing management, nurse
managers have as their object the development of a nursing organization that facilitates the
work of clinical nurses.

“Organizing”, according to Urwick, it is the process of designing the machine. It should allow for
personnel adjustments but will be minimal if a design is followed. It should show the part of
each person will play in the general social pattern, as well as the responsibilities, relationships
and standards of performance. The structure of an organization must be based on sound
principles, including that of continuity, to provide for the future.

Organizing is the grouping of activities for the purpose of achieving objectives, the assignment of
such grouping to a manager with authority for supervising each group and the define means of
coordinating appropriate activities with other units, horizontally and vertically, that are
responsible for accomplishing organizational objectives.

Organizing involves the process of deciding the necessary levels of organization needed to
accomplish the objectives of a nursing division, department or service and unit.