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Leadership Styles and Patient Safety

   

Added on  2020-02-18

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Leadership ManagementHealthcare and Research
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Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIPNURSING LEADERSHIPName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
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1NURSING LEADERSHIPIntroductionThe importance of leadership in clinical settings for achieving care goals pertaining topatient safety and quality care have been acknowledged for long. As the domain of patient safetyundergoes a constant evolution, the role played by leadership at organizational and individuallevel has been gaining prominence. The present essay throws light on the relationship betweenleadership and patient safety within the clinical setting. The essay aims to refute the statement “itdoes not matter what type of leadership style is used; it has little effect on patient safety”. Thepaper provides a definition of patient safety and a concise description of three leadership stylesnamely and their essential characteristics. A discussion is then put forward on the relationshipbetween leadership and patient safety in clinical practice. A critical analysis of how each of theleadership styles could be used for promoting patient safety in reduction of medication error inclinical setting is undertaken. Patient safety can be defined as preventing errors and the different ill effects related tohealth care. Day by day with the increasing complications in the field of medicine, patient safetyhas become a major subject of concern( Grossman & Valiga, 2016). The greater use of thetechnologies and the medicines has diversified the ways of treatments but has also brought manycomplications regarding the patient safety. This essay will aim on the how the nursing leadershipmodel can manage the patient safety. According to the researches a high quality of patient careincludes safety, timeliness, efficiency, effectiveness and patient centeredness ( Grossman &Valiga, 2016). .
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2NURSING LEADERSHIPIn the profession of nursing the quality of leadership provided by the leader nurse effectsmany aspects of a health care facility setting. The leadership quality of the nurses can have farreaching influences on the patient outcome and the quality of care. There are several differenttypes of nursing leadership. This report will throw light upon three main leadership quality ofnursing. Autocratic leadershipThis model of leadership constitutes a leader nurse or a nurse manager who will bemaking all the significant decision, would instruct other peer nurses, give orders and would issuedirections to the subordinate employees. This kind of a leader would supervise the works of othernurses and does not support the idea of collaboration or discussion with the peer nurses. Thistype of leadership nursing is mainly found in the jails, military camps and other stringentsettings. An autocratic nurse would not pay heed to any questions of the employees regarding thevalidity of the directions ( Grossman & Valiga, 2016). Transformational leadershipThis kind of leadership quality involves encouragement of the employees or the juniornurses to give their best work under the influence of a leader nurse. Unlike the autocraticleadership, this kind of a leadership focuses on motivating the junior nurses rather than imposingthem with directives. This type of a leadership in nursing believes in collaboration, team work,creativity, research and application of the evidence based practice. This type of a leadershipquality instills motivation in one self (Huber, 2013). The self motivated employees would alwayswork well than those that are pressurized by the autocratic nurses. It should be kept in mind tat
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