Personal Narrative: My Vision Of A Nurse Leader

My Vision of a Nurse Leader

Effective leadership in nursing is crucial to provide high quality, competent, and compassionate care to the patients. Inspirational nurse leaders have had a big impact on the development of nursing throughout last century (Harris, Bennett, & Ross, 2014). A successful nurse leader creates an inspiring vision of the future, motivates the team to engage with that vision, coaches and builds his team for achieving that vision (Mensik, 2015). A successful nurse leader possesses many attributes. Some of the attributes are discussed below.

Optimism is a key attribute of a nurse leader. An optimist leader has the ability to keep going despite the hurdles that might be facing the organization (Bassett & Westmore, 2012). Optimism help the leader to reinforce resiliency, a long term perspective and tends to decrease stress. Optimism is grounded on knowledge, confidence and a strong sense that organization is moving in a good direction (Tyrer, 2014). This positive energy of the leader is contagious to the team members and it influences to develop a positive outlook to any problems in professional and

personal life. Optimist leaders have the gift of being able to convince others that they have the ability to achieve levels of performance beyond those they thought possible (Anonson et al., 2014).
Integrity is another important trait a nurse leader should possess.

When an organization’s leaders conduct themselves with integrity, the organization can make a very real and positive difference in the lives of its employees and others coming in contact with them (Parse, 2014). People want a leader who practices what he or she preaches, who follows through on promises and who “walks the talk”. Leaders with high levels of integrity are in constant learning mode (Fralic, 2012). They are honest with themselves, seek guidance to discover and work around their blind spots and are always learning and growing as leaders. High integrity leaders keep their promises. They will stay in communication with the employees until the promise has been kept. They have strong moral principles, respectfulness, accessibility and transparency (Milton,

2014).
One of the important attributes a nurse leader should have is passion for nursing. A true leader who have the true passion for nursing is able to create an environment that fosters and supports staff passion, recognizes the significance of each staff member, acknowledges the importance of work that is being done, and creates professional energy within the staff (Anonson et al., 2014). The passion towards the nursing expressed by the nurse leader has a great influence on the team members in realizing the influence of their work in the lives of people who are sick and there by it helps the nurses to realize the greatness of their job and thus it increases the dedication and satisfaction towards their work which will affect the organization in delivering quality care (Walker, 2014).
Effective leadership is important to the success of any organization. Excellence in nursing leadership continues to be the adhesive force that holds the health care system together (Patricia & Yoder, 2012). An ideal leader helps themselves and others to do the right things. A successful nurse leader is often geared at improving the quality of health care delivered by promoting great teamwork with one mind and one goal ahead.