Leadership Guidance for Healthcare Professionals

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LEADERSHIP GUIDANCE
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Part A

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Introduction
The process of leadership requires a well-planned protocol and lot of skills to maintain and
manage an organisation. The administration determines the efficiency and development of an
organization. I organized team both the skilled and unskilled which helped me to solve the
problems arising and eased my operation within the department. (Scully, 2015, pp. 439-444).
The administration has been one of the most influential factors for change within the healthcare
system. The leadership process affects all the activities carried on within the health sector, and it
is the primary determinant of all the achievement and goals of an organization. As I was in
charge of the surgery department I trained the other enrolled nurses I was working with about a
new strategy of administering the intramuscular ijection. (Gurney et al., 2017, pp.497-503).
Maximum performance and expectations of best outcomes are enhanced by the capacity of a
leader to influence his/her team towards the targeted goals. The leader's effort to guide and
organise his/her team towards the same purpose is the critical determinant of the success of an
organization. It is important to guide your juniors on how the hospital opertations should be
conduted to expect the best performance from them (Mabey, 2013, pp.359-380, pp.359-380). A
good nursing leadership reflects the nourishment and development of the other staffs, and it
shows the competency of the leader in giving motivation and directions to the juniors.
Good leadership in the nursing healthcare environment is achieved through motivation and
inspiration to team members to work professionally with an aim to develop the healthcare
industry development. (Yukl, 2012, pp. 66-85). Leadership in clinical care centres is essential
healthcare sectors and also in nursing professional teachings. It is the role of nursing leadership
to ensure mobilisation and development of the staff members of the healthcare settings. (Mabey,
2013, pp.359-380, pp.359-380). Good healthcare leadership results to the positive change of

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delivering standard nursing care services within the healthcare organization In this assessment, I
would like to share my nursing leadership experience and share one of the events that took place
in the department which I was in charge of during my practice (Day et al., 2014, pp.63-82).
Portraiture of the experience
My analyses are composed of five examples of practice and allegiance of leadership according to
Posner and Kouzes. The event happened when I was in charge of surgery ward in a government
hospital in my home state. My responsibility as a senior nurse was to guide other enrolled nurses
on how to improve the performance procedures and to manage the inappropriate department
way. My department was one of the most crucial in that hospital as it was given high priority in
the whole system regarding staffs. Most of the postoperative and preoperative patients were
admitted in that ward. Apart from being an administrator in the neighbourhood, medication issue
was one of the regular activity to handle by coordinating my staffs (Martin &Waring, 2013, pp.
358-374). Medication is a crucial issue in such a department as patient needs injection before and
after surgery and in that sector, the junior crews require skills, training and regular practice. The
time I was appointed, there were few unexperienced junior staffs because of the rapid turnover of
faculties in the surgery ward. This rapid turnover of teams made the working environment in the
department to be stressful. The reason of stressful working environment at that time is because
the skilled staffs instead of correcting and teaching the junior crews they imposed most of the
ward activities to the new unskilled staffs (Martin &Waring, 2013, pp. 358-374).
The unethical behaviour of the experienced staff required me to take it as my responsibility to
guide and supervised all the member staffs. At one time, an issue of intramuscular injection

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arose. Most of the patients require anodyne medication after surgery which is usually injected
through intramuscular (IM) root. This injection is not an easy undertaking, and it needs more
skills and practice to perform although students are taught during their study period. The
analgesia injection that is given to the patient after surgery becomes very painful when the giver
fails to locate the suitable site of injection (Yukl, 2012, pp. 66-85). There was a day, one of the
new staffs was allocated a responsibility to take care of the patient just after the surgery. The new
team who was a lady gave the intramuscular injection at a wrong site which caused inflammation
and a lot of pain to the patient. The family, relatives and the patient forwarded the matter to the
hospital management and administration. The issue became a significant challenge to me for the
first time. I had to establish a cooperative environment for functional interaction between
experienced and the new staffs to enhance better performance. I then decided to offer the in-
service training to the less skilled employees to avoid such a situation in the time ahead.
I strategised in one of the training and demonstrated the site for giving the IM injection which
was the best algorithm to use. I managed to conduct the in-service training program concerning
the intramuscular injection and it not very easy form junior staff to understand and apply the
same knowledge (Gülnar, &Özveren, 2016, pp. 360-363). From my research on the most recent
approved site for the injection and demonstrated those standard guidelines to the other staffs. In
my study, I found that ventrogluteal muscle is the safest and the best location for intramuscular
infusion rather than dorsal-gluteal muscle where the other nurses used to inject.