Role Of Leadership In Nursing

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Introduction
For so long nurses have taken a back seat in health care. Nurses are the backbone that holds the health care system together. There are more nurses in health care than any other discipline. The role of the nurse play a significant part in health care. Ames ( ), describes, nurse are the “hub” in the health care field. In 2010, The Institute of Medicine, IOM (2010) made recommendations for nurses to take on the role of leadership to be partners with other disciplinarians in the health care field. The IOM’s recommendation was explaining the importance of nurses being full partners in health care along with every other disciplines. Some nurses may not have thought of themselves in leadership positions. Being a leader can may be challenging …show more content…

One strategy used to help increase the leadership role of nursing is to develop internal relationships. This is defined as multi-professional, inter-professional and departmental relationship within a hospital setting. For example, if the hospitals are known as magnet status and specialize in cardiology, senior and middle executives implement the majority of the decision-making. By developing internal and external relationships, overall, patient care delivery will increase, for example, instead of one nurse per eight patients; the hospital can provide one nurse per four patients, allowing the nurse to spend adequate time with each patient. Having more nurses in leadership role can help implement that plan because they would have actual knowledge from working on the hospital floor. Developing external relationships include networking with professional organizations, and communicating with similar hospitals. Collaborating with similar organizations can enhance the hospital 's reputation for excellence (Heller, Drenkard, Esposito-Herr, Romano, Tom & Valentine, …show more content…

The most challenging type of coaching and the ordinarily overlooked-involves involves providing feedback to those individuals with greater authority. As the members of an organization become more emotionally competent, coaching upward becomes less challenging and is embraced more readily. Once the halo of infallibility is removed formt he most powerful positions in the organization, those in other positions can use the skills of coaching upward to give appropriate feedback often averting serious negative outcomes as a result. People generally appreciate constructive, timely and sensitively delivered feedback that can put the practical use. Despite this people who give feedback frequently are tentative and unsure that what they are doing is appropriate. Giving feedback completes the circle of communication and further advances the work of the organization in a positive manner.

Innovation leadership page 179/ 180 in nursing is one which employees are encouraged and valued for challenging existing work processes and providing services that ensure organizational viability. Leadership is about creating conditions, providing reward for innovative work and securing resources. Innovation leadership is about who the leader is and how the world of

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