Leadership and Management in Complex Care in Adult Nursing Practice

Complex Care in Adult Nursing Practice
(NPR3032-STD)
LEADERSHIP
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 3
TASK...................................................................................................................... 3
CONCLUSION......................................................................................................... 9
REFERENCE.......................................................................................................... 10
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management are said to be the two elements that play an important
contributory role in the provision of quality care in the nursing sector. Both leaders and
managers have different roles and responsibilities, but they work for a common goal, i.e. to
pull out better outcomes (Johnson, 2017). In fact, leadership can be understood as an art in
which a person leads his subordinates to meet the team’s goals and objectives. With good
leadership approach, a right working culture is developed within teams to manage and meet
clients’ expectations (Ciulla, 2014). This assignment will outline various theories of
leadership that promote effective nursing and enable nursing team to provide a differentiated
quality service to clients. The assignment will also discuss the link between appropriate style
of leadership and compassionate care and its impact on health service delivery.
TASK
The presence of capable leaders in nursing sector will result in an improved team
performance and achieve better results in terms of service delivery (Collinson, (2014). With
effective leadership in place, it can be argued that the nursing team can serve their patients
better and share a great bond with them. It has been recognized that nursing sector plays a
vital role in the modern era as it is responsible in delivering value services to clients with the
health institution. A leader in an organisation is provided with roles to form right decisions
and making sure that both employees and clients are satisfied in terms of environment and
culture (Heifetz and Linsky, 2017). Leaders in nursing sector should have good interacting
skills through which they can effectively issue out instructions and assign tasks to their team
mates. According to Goleman, (2017), health policies are more effective when there are
effective leaders to implement them and to create better conditions for clinical team. This
may have the effect of motivating the clinical members to work in an effective and efficient
way.
As indicated by Heifetz and Linsky, (2017), planning, organizing, directing,
controlling and coordinating are some of the factors that come under management. Proper
implementation of these factors may aid in achieving the organizational goals in a given time.
It has been established that effective management can aid in hitting desired targets in an
efficient manner. The performance level of a team can be enhanced if proper training is
provided by management in a clinical department. Along with this, skill level will be apt and
generate additional confidence and motivation to the team to take up responsibilities to
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provide effective health care to patients (Goleman, 2017). As proposed by Johnson, (2017),
influencing subordinates or others by using interpersonal skills in order to achieve desired
goals is one of the qualities in leadership and must be possessed by every leader in the
nursing sector since it will help them in making the employees work in more effective and
efficient manner. Motivating, supporting, directing and moral boosting are some of the styles
that a good leader exhibit in order to attain personal and team goals and objectives.
Innovations like introduction of new types of technology should also be brought in by
management in their operations to ensure the nursing or clinical team adapt to the ever
changing situations in the health sector.
Ward, (2016) asserts that a group of individuals should be handled in an effective and
efficient manner so that they can perform their work in a proper way. and this can be done
through various strategies and approaches of the leader. A leader should give clear vision and
mission to their subordinates and set realistic, achievable and measurable goals so that they
can provide good guidance to its subordinates and make them show correct path as well. This
will guide the working team to achieve the set goals. Performance review meetings should
also be held from time to time to ensure measures are put in place to meet the set goals.
Through this, the leaders will get the idea of performance doe by their followers and if there
is any chance of improvement then it will also be conducted in a proper manner. It also
influences in achieving goals because it helps in assuring that activities are going on in a
proper manner and it will lead to achievement of goals and objectives as well. Providing
directions to clinical team members to work in a smarter way help them in delivering quality
services to clients or patients. Energising and empowering clinical squad is fundamental in
nursing sector and it helps in making them more responsible while treating a patient.
Bringing up a competition is also a duty of a leader in the clinical department through which
they can improve productivity of the team at the workplace. This will also impact the
followers in a positive manner as they will get the opportunities to increase their knowledge
as well as productivity of themselves through which they can attain good results.
Culture considers the beliefs and assumptions, which help in determining the manner
in which team members interact with each other and provide health care services to the
patients (Nettina, Msn, and Nettina, 2013). It simply defines the manner in which operations
are carried out within the environment. The development of ideal culture at an institution
requires appropriate leadership, which assures that creation and communication is being
carried out in the right manner. It is extremely important to build a culture which involves
compassion and care within nursing teams. This is because, although there is a huge amount
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