Worldwide healthcare system is facing number of complex with many facets challenges in providing a safe, cost effective and high quality of care (The King's Fund 2018). In the current healthcare sector there is rapid change, multiple pressures to manage increasing demand and limited resources (Betty F 2014). Leadership does not always come with a title or prestige. Every nurse has within themselves qualities that make them a great leader. Leadership by definition, “is a combination of intrinsic personality traits, learned leadership skills, and characteristics of the situation (Cherry& Jacob (2013 p. 335). However leadership is key to prioritise for the organisation to nurture cultures to withstand and improve the quality of care, providing opportunities for the World Health organisation to shape the global controversy and secure the organisation’s business (WHO 2018). Leadership according to the Royal College of Nursing is the most influential factor in shaping organisational culture and ensuring the essential leadership behaviours providing with a clear vision where staff are motivated and empowered (RCN 2018). Leadership is the art of mobilising others by the use of interpersonal skills to induce others to achieve a …show more content…
It is also a fundamental skill that allows the staff to navigate the complex and ever changing healthcare system effectively in problem solving and decision making. Furthermore leaders ensures direction, alignment to objective for all team and commitment to the core task of developing cultures that deliver continually improving, high-quality and compassionate patient care ensure that the voice is heard at every level, experience, concern and getting feedback are important for further improvement in the dark area (The King’s Fund
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Hospital administrators will charge nurse leaders with ensuring that patient positive outcomes prevail while also controlling overhead. Nurse leaders are specially trained just for this task. Clinical Nurse Leaders are the experts that America’s patients will rely on to keep them safe and healthy in hospital settings.
Factors that impinge on the capacity to utilise effective leadership within clinical practice may extend to the lack of confidence or inexperience associated with new practitioners or graduate nurses. Other issues may extend to role confusion (Fealy, et al., 2011), isolation, poor resources of time/finances, high workloads (Peltzer, et al., 2015) and stress levels, which affect the ability to undertake stressful or challenging situations. Compassion fatigue or ‘burnout’ and vicarious trauma are common in nursing, potentially inhibiting the nurses’ ability to wholly engage with their role/patients and intradisciplinary/interdisciplinary teams (Weberg, 2010). Factors affecting leadership development are considered pertinent issues, as positive leadership is associated with quality care and maximisation of
During my clinical practicum hours at Fresno Surgical Hospital (FSH) with my preceptor, Heidi Honeycutt, I have gained a better understanding of the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS). Although all of the roles of the CNS are important, to be an effective and competent advanced practice nurse (APN), a CNS must have strong leadership skills. Leadership in a CNS role includes the ability to perform clinical research, guide change, model behaviors that lead to best patient outcomes, and develop trusting relationships with staff and patients in order to promote the facilitation of learning and communication. My preceptor has the knowledge and theoretical framework to accomplish the CNS role on a day-to-day basis, but what sets her apart and makes her a competent APN are her strong leadership skills. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the role of the CNS as a leader and how having a better understanding of this role contributes to my professional and personal growth.
Nurse’s can demonstrate leadership by facilitating outstanding care to patients and it is related to how one’s values and behavior affect others. A leader is all about with success and contribution and a successful leader set his/her standards, goals and strategies at high. One can become a leader by assigned or emerged but both will be working towards a common goal of good or bad. In leadership, positive attitude is the key to success and problems and challenge in healthcare industry demand that nurses seek and fill the gap.
Leadership is defined by Northouse (2013) as a transactional experience between persons whereby one individual influences a group of individuals who have a mutual goal. Leaders may hold authority attributed to them by the group, substantiated by how they are regarded, whether or not they have positional authority. In contrast to management, where the goal is to provide order through control, leadership is concerned with producing change through transformation and practical adjustments (Northouse, 2013). Because of the nature of nursing, its obligation to promoting health and healing of people, nursing leadership concentrates change efforts based on human needs and concurrently ponders the needs of administrations largely because they understand the interrelatedness of the two influences.
From the two leadership styles the author experienced in practice, both have an impact on working place culture, patient safety and quality of care. Lassiafre approach to leading yielded poor quality of care, and a blame culture within the team. whilst the transformational leadership style by Nurse E had quality of care delivered to its patients and good team dynamics. However, this was not always consistent as the two leaders worked on different days which meant that when the transformational leader was not on her followers struggled to maintain their leaders vision and values as there was a conflict of styles which the other staff might have preferred. Bhandori et al argued that transformational leadership is more suited for healthcare setting,
I believe that leadership is not something that you are born with, but that has to be learned over time. You learn to become a leader from watching other leaders, and also from personal experience. People should become leaders; so that they can help others do their best. They should not become leaders for the title and power that may come with leadership. Being a leader does not mean you get to boss people around by telling them what to do. The purpose of a leader is to guide others by encouraging, showing them the way, and by challenging them to do the best that they can do. I learned leadership through personal experience. In high school I played sports and had many class projects to do. My senior year was the first time my school had a soccer program, and I along with two other girls was captains. As we all know, when a group of girls come together, the drama comes too. All three of the captains had to work together and show the girls that if we wanted this program to be a success and grow, they had to work together as well. It was hard at first, but when we encouraged everyone, it worked out better than expected in the end. Also, in my business class, we had a lot of projects that were mostly group projects. During the end of the year, we had a project where we had to make up a new product. My partner and I were both seniors and it was a stressful time with finals, SAT scores, graduation, and trying to become honor graduates. We were tired and just did not want to do another project, but our teacher, Mr. Brace, did not give up on us. He showed us what to do, and encouraged us constantly every day. He would tell us many positive things and would check up on us. He was a great teacher and a great leader. Leadership may be one wo...
Leadership is all about having the right amount of heart and determination to help make a difference in someone’s life. It takes certain qualities to be considered a good leader. A leader should want to help inspire others to make a change and to be the best that they can be. A true leader does not need to feel powerful, instead they empower those around them. Throughout my life I have come across various leaders who have made an impact on my life. It takes a very special person to inspire and touch people’s lives. Leadership is so much deeper than having power and bossing people around.
A leader is described as a person who guides others and has authority and influence over others. They work to influence others into meeting certain goals. There is no right or wrong definition of a leader and there is no recipe that ensures effective leadership. Successful leaders have a good balance of vision, influence, and power. Leaders gain their authority from their ability to influence others to get the work done; because of this, anyone has the potential to be a leader. (Finkelman. 2012, p15)
(2011). Hence, I have first built good rapport with my workmates to help me communicate with them effectively. I made sure that I conveyed messages to my workmates in a respectful and simple manner in which they could understand. As a nurse, learning to adapt to various situations and applying appropriate leadership styles in different circumstances is a very essential skill to learn in health care practice.
In today’s society, leadership is a common yet useful trait used in every aspect of life and how we use this trait depends on our role. What defines leadership is when someone has the capability to lead an organization or a group of people. There are many examples that display a great sense of leadership such being an educator in health, a parent to their child, or even a nurse. In the medical field, leadership is highly used among nurses, doctors, nurse managers, director of nursing, and even the vice president of patient care services. Among the many positions in the nursing field, one who is a nurse manager shows great leadership. The reason why nurse manager plays an important role in patient care is because it is known to be the most difficult position. As a nurse manager, one must deal with many patient care issues, relationships with medical staff, staff concerns, supplies, as well as maintaining work-life balance. Also, a nurse manager represents leadership by being accountable for the many responsibilities he or she holds. Furthermore, this position is a collaborative yet vital role because they provide the connection between nursing staff and higher level superiors, as well as giving direction and organization to accomplish tasks and goals. In addition, nurse managers provide nurse-patient ratios and the amount of workload nursing staff has. It is their responsibility to make sure that nursing staff is productive and well balanced between their work and personal lives.
Given the complexities of a hospital ward, key to running it efficiently and successfully is good leadership qualities. This skill seems to be more effective with staff morale, time management efficiency and the overall well running of the ward. Leadership is a key skill to a more fruitful balanced ward where patients wellbeing is at the centre (Borbasi and Gaston, 2002). Leaders should be able to encourage and support staff to test new skills in a safe environment (West-Burnham,1997).Nurses that apply management and leadership skills together win the respect of their colleagues (Bondas, 2006).