Clinical Leadership in Nursing PDF

Running head: CLINICAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
Clinical Leadership in Nursing
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CLINICAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
Introduction
Contemporary hospital care is confronted by challenges in workforce, change in the
expectations of the consumers, increase in demands of patient centred care and issues with the
level of safety and quality in health care (Daly et al., 2014). Under this exhaustive requirement,
effective governance is indispensible in order to maximise the effective management of the
overall care under hospital or other healthcare settings. The importance of effective clinical
leadership in nursing helps to ensure high quality health care system that provides safe and
effective care and the same has been highlighted in numerous scientific papers and government
reports (Daly et al., 2014). The following paper aims to analyse how clinical leadership helps in
sharing up the overall quality of care how a nursing professional can execute the overall concept
of clinical leadership. In order to discuss the main aim of the topic, the paper will critically
analyse four literary articles which falls within the scope of clinical leadership and nursing. The
articles selected include the studies conducted by Mannix, Wilkes and Daly (2013), Hutchinson
and Jackson (2013), Martin et al. (2012) and Dignam et al. (2012). The analysis of the article
will be based on the leadership theory highlighted in the article, relevance of the research
findings, limitations of the research and additional recommendation. The overall analysis will
help to highlight the traits and the leadership models that will help in the promotion of clinical
leadership in nursing theory.

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CLINICAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
Critical analysis of articles
Mannix, J., Wilkes, L., & Daly, J. (2013). Attributes of clinical leadership in contemporary
nursing: an integrative review. Contemporary Nurse, 45(1), 10-21.
Mannix, Wilkes and Daly (2013) conducted an integrative review with 10 research
papers with an aim to understand the defining factors of contemporary clinical leadership in
nursing. The analysis of the papers identified that clinical leadership in nursing highlight the
technical and the practical skills of the nursing professionals which help in the establishment of
the clinical practice and leading a team from front. The practical skills in clinical leadership
encompass effective communications which help in growing friendly relationship with both the
patients and subordinate nursing professionals. This friendly relationship helps in building
supporting and healthy workplace environment. The review mainly upheld the concept of
clinical leadership in nursing as a positive and engaging leader who promotes wellbeing of staffs
and thus helping to increase self-confidence and reducing stress. Thus the main leadership theory
highlighted in the review is transformational leadership theory. According to Avolio and
Yammarino (2013), a transformational leadership is a process by which a person interacts with
other and is successful in generating solid relationship that result in increased level of trust. This
trust results in increased level of motivation among both intrinsically and extrinsically and in
between the leaders and their subordinates. Thus review article published by Mannix, Wilkes and
Daly (2013) emphasized over effective communication under transformational leadership model
for the promotion of healthy workplace environment in clinical nursing. In relation to this,
Kourkouta and Papathanasiou (2014) stated that communication holds a significant part in
nursing. It helps to promote therapeutic relationship with the patients along with increasing the
scope of positive engagement of the team mates. This creates healthy workplace environment