Nursing Leadership Report

Leaders in nursing are a crucial piece in the delivery of safe and efficient patient care. In nursing, even though all the nurses are not considered the appointed "leader" of their unit, each nurse still requires to have some degree of self leadership. A nurse can not have a colleague in their unit constantly monitoring every action. There must be independence and trust in the quality of care each nurse delivers to their patients. Leaders in nursing aim to set the standard and maintain the vision of what type of care should be delivered to patients on their units. Without these leaders, standards would be individualized from nurse to nurse. If this happens, then a uniform goal or standard quality of care would not be met since there is no vision

Although she was young, the maturity and knowledge she possessed surpassed what I would have expected considering her age and the amount of years she has been working in her unit. The unit is a regular ICU which is not geared toward any specific niche in the hospital such as an NICU or PICU. She graduated about 4 years ago with a BSN and has only specialized in the ICU since graduating. In such short amount of time, she has already been considered a senior nurse and plays a major role in training newly hired nurses. Her leadership position in this organization is to train, educate, orient and decide when newly hired nurses are accomplished with training so that they can begin patient care on their own. Without her approval, new nurses would remain in training until specific standards are met. Her professionalism and leaderships style were impressive to say the least. Her style was effective and worked nothing short of great just by observing how efficient and productive this team

Among those qualities are: confidence, passion, belief in her peers, trust, motivation, vivid communication and the ability providing a sense of empowerment and importance to her trainees. Without these qualities, she believes her unit's team efforts would be flawed and individualized. A change the nurse, and her colleagues were directly involved in this year was a drastic decrease in hospital acquired infections. In previous years, the unit had an abundance of hospital acquired infections through improper sterile techniques, important oversights dealing with the maintenance of wounds, ulcers, lines, and