An Approach Appropriate for the Art of Nursing: Individualized Management

Abstract

Developments in the historical process have made innovation in management approaches inevitable. To adapt to these cultural and managerial changes, new management approaches have emerged at different times. In addition, nursing has undergone many changes in the fields of education, practice, management, and research from the past to the present. The nursing profession has been able to adapt and develop to the needs of the future with what it has learned from experience. In the literature, it is predicted that management approaches will evolve on the basis of information technologies, high ideals, and individual-oriented theories. The concept of individuality in nursing is related to the well-being of nurses who provide health services as well as the results of nursing care that healthy/patient individuals need with their unique qualities. When nurses’ individual experiences, family situations, personality traits, professional knowledge, and experiences are considered in the managerial approach, their contribution to health services and the effectiveness of health care services may increase. This study aimed to explain the concept of individualized management within the framework of the information obtained considering the literature and to make inferences.

Keywords

• individualized
• individualized care
• management
• nurse management
• nursing