Clinical Leadership in Nursing

Running Head: CLINICAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
CLINICAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
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Part - A
Introduction
The essentiality of leadership has now been widely recognized as a key and fundamental part of
the healthcare system. The importance of effective clinical leadership towards ensuring high
quality system of health care with the consistent provision of efficient and safe care has been
retreated in several governmental reports and scholarly literature. The thesis statement of the
essay argues with the comparison of two essential leadership theories in the context for clinical
leadership in nursing.
Compare and contrast two leadership theories in the context for clinical leadership in
nursing
It's not only the lack of disease or disability, and also ethical standards of medical care in the
scheme, that means the capacity to achieve the excellences identified by the full well being from
a physiological, mental and sociological standpoint. Just like with leadership in healthcare
presentations; it is necessary not only to keep health care facilities, but also to transform services
to achieve efficiency (Grossman & Valiga, 2016). The healthcare services providers, who
contact themselves and interact with patients in particular, in surrounding clinical settings and
their management characteristics, are articulated in terms of the safety and quality of their views.
This happens as a significant part of healthcare systems in the clinical industries and this sort of
management is the responsibility of medical practitioners and the practising nurses.
Jonas, McCay and Keogh (2010) have described clinical leadership as "the idea of clinical care
employees taking management positions: setting, inspiring and supporting principles and a
perspective while using their clinical knowledge and abilities to guarantee the patient's

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requirements are a key focus for the goals, delivery and performance of the organization."
Active diagnostic guidance at each stage is necessary and must not be abandoned to one
individual.
Figure - Transformational Leadership Model
Source - (Alilyyani, Wong & Cummings, 2018)
Transformational leadership is indeed a style of leadership that encourages, inspires, and
motivates staff to drive innovation as well as an improvement that contributes to the success in
the future of the enterprise (Vaismoradi et al., 2016). This is achieved by providing an instance at
the leadership level through a powerful sense of business culture, worker possession and

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workforce autonomy. Some of the critical components and the features of the theory include the
following.
The history of transformational leadership ranges back to James V. Downtown who first coined
the term. James MacGregor Burns utilised the term transformational leadership in the year 1978
for illustrating the procedure where leaders help to advance in a high level of motivation and
morale. The key components or the features of this theory is that it is a leadership style theory
that provides staff with more space to be creative, look ahead and discover fresh alternatives to
ancient issues. The feature of transformational theory is that, it develops good quality
performance-based caregivers, every nurse leader strives to inspire their followers, to build a
dedicated, passionate team that works further than the needs of the work.
The following template is a through explanation of the characteristics of the theory indicating
that while the four elements are interconnected, they need to harmonize in order to achieve
performance far beyond the institution's aspirations.
Figure - Transformational Leadership Characteristic Template
Source - (Lavoie‐Tremblay et al., 2016)