Nurse Leadership

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Motivational, honest, energizing, efficient, empowering and, above all, qualified! Professionally speaking, these are just some of the qualities that nurse leaders seek out and often gravitate toward while building strong and dynamic professional relationships. A great nurse leader is a great listener, communicator and an inspirational, change-maker, empowering others to help lead the way toward best practices in patient care (Davis, 2017, para. 4). Further, the supportive nurse manager shoulders other complex responsibilities such as establishing goals and objectives, monitoring for results and assessing performance, further ensuring safe and effective patient care. (Laurent, 2000, para. 26). Certainly, this synergistic, dual role of responsibility …show more content…

For example, compassion and caring are two extremely important characteristics needed by leaders (Pullen, 2016, para. 2). These characteristics help leaders to utilize interpersonal skills and to emotionally connect to other employees or patients, listening, empathizing and collaborating to help them reach their highest potential (Yoder-Wise, 2015, pg. 56). Leaders influence people by utilizing highly effective communication skills and being service oriented (Yoder-Wise, 2015, pg. 56). Other characteristics of leaders include: being concerned with the common good; acting in a positive way; being driven with motivational energy; believing in other people; acting synergistically; seeing the bigger picture and issues as greater than the sum of the parts and, most importantly, engaging themselves in self-awareness, self-renewal and lifelong learning (Yoder-Wise, 2015, p.36). All of this is accomplished through a sense of style with qualities that complement the leader’s …show more content…

Although it is sometimes elusive, self-awareness helps me to improve myself, to take responsibility for my mistakes, to learn from them and to become a better leader. Requesting feedback from others, journaling, analyzing notes and reviewing outcomes, allows me to see more clearly the characteristics that I possess which may impede my efforts. For example, some characteristics that I may have which may impede my efforts to act with my best transformational style includes not being firm enough, not holding others accountable as often, or as firmly, as otherwise may be appropriate and, potentially, lacking a sense of urgency that is needed to act as a catalyst for change, particularly in areas of healthcare that I am

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