Re: Can a CEO Mentor a Nurse? Originally Posted by PageRespiratory! 
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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by manager. Are you saying that state law requires a unit manager to be nurse? Not instituton policy, but state law?!? What if you have 2 applicants for a managers position, and the more qualified candidate does'nt have nursing credentials? Our ICU manager is not a nurse. LOL - a good friend of mine, an ICU nurse, always referred to his proffessors and instructers in school as "the nursing gestapo".
In my state a nurse manager may manage more than one unit. The person with overall responsibility for nursing care must be a licensed registered nurse. So a non nurse would not apply for that position.
Each unit must have a medical director who is a physician.
Some hospitals have one manager who does scheduling and other managerial functions.
But the nurse manager must ensure the nursing policies and procedures are current.
Each nursing employee must be evaluated at least once a year. Direct caregivers must be evaluated based on their scope of practice. RNs must be evaluated on the nursing process.
Outpatient clinics and urgent care may have a physician and non nurse manager. In that situation such clinics that are associated with an acute care hospital still have the requirement that every RN be evaluated by an RN. Generally the Chief Nursing Officer or designee looks at documentation and has a conversation with the RNs and NPs.
NPs are also evaluated by the physician on the medical aspects of patient care.
I'm glad you explained "nursing gestapo"!
Yup. Nursing instructors must insist everything be done "by the book".
The ones in my LVN school were also former British military and quite authoritarian.
As Karen explained I think for managerial duties such as the unit budget a CEO can contribute invaluable knowledge.
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