Leadership and Positive Leader: Characteristics, Delegation, and Skill Development Exercises for Nurses

This presentation discusses the meaning of positive leader, authentic leadership in the workplace, characteristics of intuition of positive leader, strategy of delegation of a positive leader for improving productivity, delegation in nursing profession, and skill development exercises for nurses for improving productivity.

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AUTHOR NOTE

Leader
 Leader refers to person who
influences people which helps
them in achieving goal.
 A leader leads by taking recourse
to example and he also
motivates other people in
following him

Meaning of Positive Leader
• A positive leader makes use of
scientific evidence along with the
principles for the promotion of
organisational outcome like the
positive emotions along with
energising network
• Positive leadership has been
found to have affirmative basis
and it helps in addressing the
impediments
Authentic Leadership in workplace
• Authentic leader practices values
that they preach that helps in
providing encouragement to the
other employees in an
organisation
• The integrity of the authentic
leader helps in empowering the
employees of an organization

Leader member Exchange
• Leader Member Exchange refers
to an approach that is based on
relationship which focuses on the
two-way relationship in between
leader and follower.
• It helps the leaders in developing
exchange with subordinates that
helps in influencing the
responsibility of the
subordinates.
Characteristics of Intuition of
Positive Leader
 Intuition acts as a significant
element of leader which offers
him help in taking the crucial
decisions
 Intuition of the leader assists him
for looking into the problems
which helps in the arena of that
of problem solving
 Intuitive skills of the leader
assists him in the understanding
the point of the view of that of
the others.

Strategy of Delegation of a positive
leader for improving productivity
 The strategy which positive
leader takes which helps him for
improving productivity of that of
the nurses is delegation along
with empowerment
 Delegation of the responsibilities
in the healthcare profession aids
leader for handling of the
multifarious duties pertaining to
the profession

Significance of Delegation and
Empowering
 Delegation of the leader plays a
crucial role for engagement of
team and it increases the self-
worth of members of team
 Delegation is responsible for
playing a significant role for
providing the encouragement to
that of the employees within a
company.

Delegation in nursing profession
 Delegation helps in the building
of the healthy interpersonal
relationships which helps a team
so that they can work together
 Nursing assistants think that
they are respected when they
delegate tasks which improves
performance of employees within
an organisation.

Skill Development Exercises for
Nurses for improving productivity
Mystery Diagnosis
 Group leader arranges for a
participant in the game for
playing the role of the nurse and
he carries out role play of
symptoms that are related with
that of the disorder.
 Nurse helps in relaying the
information when the patient is
not capable of speaking

 Doctor enters room and carries
out diagnoses of patient along
with recommending the course
of the treatment
 Activity promotes communication
in between doctor, patient and
nurses which teaches the art of
the delegation

Medical Charades
 Participants engaged in team
building exercise is responsible
for preparing the slips of paper
which has got medical terms.
 Each of the team should be
sending one of the
representative who then pulls out
the paper along with acting out
the items which has been listed
in the paper

 Team should be able to guess
action of the patient
 Game can be played untill all
the participants gets chance for
acting out the items until limit
has been achieved

Impact of Mystery Diagnosis
 Skill development exercise of
that of Mystery Diagnosis can
help the nurses for acting art of
the diagnosis along with gauging
condition of the patients
 Impact of Medical Charades
 Skill development exercise helps
nurses in training aspects of
delegation. The nurses learn the
art of co-ordination in that of
healthcare profession

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