Clinical Leadership in Nursing: Importance, Attributes, and Recommendations

Running Head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
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Nursing Assignment
11/2/2018

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Clinical leadership theory and nursing...................................................................................................2
The Importance of Clinical leadership in the hospital settings...........................................................2
Attributes to Clinical Leadership in Contemporary Nursing: An integrative review.........................3
Clinical leadership development and education for nurses: prospects and opportunities...................3
Quantitative systematic review of multi-professional teamwork and leadership training to optimize
patient outcomes in acute hospital settings........................................................................................4
Recommendations.................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The report brings about the discussion on the nursing assignment, which includes the
description of the leadership in clinical settings and the related aspects. It has been
understood that the health care is delivered by the complex systems, and the processes to any
patient in the health care or hospitals, thus it is essential for a clinician to perform their role or
function effectively leading to the positive health outcomes. Thus, it defines about the
clinician leader who contributes to the effective healthcare system in the economy. Thus, the
report in the later part, will include a literature review on the clinical leadership, and the
issues identified, and the appropriate recommendations to improve them ensuring patient’s
health and wellbeing (Wong, 2015).
Clinical leadership theory and nursing
Nursing is a dynamic and the challenging profession that requires the contribution of
efforts and higher commitment of the health professionals or doctors in the hospitals. Due to
the emergence of the increased complexity, chaos, high rates of change, safety, and quality
health issues, and the shortage of the workforce, it has been analysed that the clinical
leadership play an effective role in the healthcare settings (Démeh & Rosengren, 2015).
The Importance of Clinical leadership in the hospital settings
Daly et al., (2014) was of the view, that clinical leadership is important in the
healthcare settings to ensure effective treatment and care of the patient. It is significant as it is
considered as the important foundation for the good-quality and well-run healthcare services
and the systems. It can be described through an example of the New Zealand, which is in a
strong position, and exercise effective clinical leadership in their healthcare settings. The
authors has described well that clinical leadership is not a single activity, rather it has been
linked to a wide range of functions in the healthcare. Firstly, it has been considered as the
important requirement of hospital care, including the performance of their systems and
processes (Lindenauer et al., 2014).
Some other functions include the health reform objectives, delivering timely care to
the patients, system integrity and efficiency are the vital components of the healthcare
system. Nursing is considered as both explicit and implicit to the leaders or leadership in the
healthcare settings. One of the major drawback or issue which has been highlighted by the