Approach and Strategy

As mentioned above in the Australian experience, the strategies deployed through policy imperatives have shown the best outcomes. In this regard, effective workplace facilitation, proactive leadership and managerial effectiveness involving training schedules give the desirable outcomes (Dawson et al, 2014). Unskilled workers need empowerment at the workplace to function optimally. Without empowerment, work redundancy might set in and the confusion that follows can be terribly disastrous (Taylor & Foster, 2015). With an effective management and leadership approach, the decision-making practices and devolved communication models regarding daily operations create a spirit of collegiality and nurses are involved in useful consultations.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The nursing profession in Australia is currently one of the most robust as a result of the wave of inclusivity for unskilled workers. Inclusivity has brought about adequate personnel into the system but has presented the challenge of management and leadership (Ford & Kawashima, 2016). Nonetheless, diverse generational cohorts might pose both leadership and management challenges because they derive their reasoning and conduct from extensively dissimilar backgrounds. For this reason, generational conflicts ought to be addressed through amicable and sustainable models of correction (Dawson et al, 2014). Due to the generational diversity, nursing leadership ought to cultivate generational synergy to advance collegial comportment among nurses at the workplace and this is a reward garnered by inclusivity. The diverse dispositions in terms of attitude, beliefs and experiences can be treated to extensive peer-to-peer learning so that greater understanding is attained.    

Conclusion

There are diverse models of workplace facilitation in the nursing fraternity that ensures optimal productivity among the unskilled nurses. These diverse models and approaches should be deployed sparingly while taking into consideration their own merits and demerits (Ford & Kawashima, 2016). In the light all the challenges and opportunities afforded by the inclusion of unskilled workers in the nursing fraternity, one thing is clear that a radical approach should be engaged everywhere within the institutions of nursing practice to create order and progress. While making way for professional cultivation and progression, the unskilled workers create a pool of vital workforce that can address the temporary challenges as we advance through the various phases of the transition. Eventually, the unskilled workers can gain the boost of learning through academic evaluation and then integrated into the workforce as qualified workers.  Furthermore, this study finds it useful to recommend that economic analyses and service delivery quality studies should be given extensive attention throughout the phases when excessive unskilled workers are incorporated into the nursing fraternity.  

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