Leadership in Nursing

Running Head: Leadership in Nursing
LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
Essay
AUGUST 31, 2019

Leadership in Nursing 1
Introduction
It is responsibility of a leader to motivate other people and work with the team members to
deliver a better patient care in the organisation. As a student of nursing, I feel that a person must
have capabilities to deal with people in professional ways. In the above case, the registrar
shouted on Kim in the public domain and it shows that he was upset with Kim because she does
not have any idea about the equipment, which was required during the intubation process.
However, as a leader I feel that this is really a bad behavior of Registrar with Kim. People who
work in the healthcare system must have capabilities of dealing with people in appropriate
manner (Davies, 2018). Here, another situation is that Kim understand that Kim is doing quite
well, and she have well idea of healthcare work and ward duties which is required to perform her
job. However, the bad behavior of registrar left Kim hopeless and she failed that she was losing
her self-confidence. However, the approach of NUM (Nursing Unit Manager) was also
questionable because he raised the issue in front of people and colleagues of Kim and it left Kim
embarrassed in that situation.
At present nursing profession is being considered as one of the most crucial health care service in
the world because is not only associated with only care of the patient but it is also linked with
discipline which is being used to maintain the professional environment in the workplace
(Backman, et. al., 2017). In this case, it has been found that register behaved in an unprofessional
way with Kim and shouting on her publically. According to me, strong and effective leader will
not do this kind of act and will focus on maintaining professional work environment in the
workplace (Moorley & Chinn, 2016.). It is well known that effective nursing leadership is
completely based on principles such as trust, fairness and respect (Merrill, 2015). Missing of any
of these aspects creates serious issue in the process of leadership. These characters are very
essential while working in health care environment because it helps in forming healthy work
environment, which is essential for both patient as well as employees (Ailey, Lamb, Friese, &
Christopher, 2015).
Under the clinical leadership expectations, it is expected from a new graduate nurse that she will
focus on things what happens around her/him in the healthcare setting. Apart from this, it is also
expected from the new graduate nurse that she will care about the procedure and practices during
healthcare services. Apart from this, the laws in Australian government says that everybody has

Leadership in Nursing 2
right of dignity and is liable for respect. The new nurse should be careful about the procedures
and take the learning in the healthcare center with great attention. However, in the case of Kim
somewhere her attention was missing during the intubation process. Although she has accepted
that she have full knowledge about the procedures and equipment.
Respect for others should be the first priority in the organisation and every member including
leaders and physicians in the organisation should follow it. Here, in the case, it seems that Kim
was distracted somewhere or she failed to listen Registrar during intubation period that shows
her lack of attention towards the work even she claimed that she have full knowledge about all
equipment and practices during intubation (Dyess, Sherman, Pratt, & Chiang-Hanisko, 2016).
The Gibbs reflective cycle can help here to analyze the situation and take corrective action to
avoid such type of situation in the origination. According to the Gibbs reflective cycle there are
six stage of analysis an issue (Hu, et. al., 2016). These six stages are description (where issue or
problem is being defined), Feelings (where feeling is considered about the issue), Evaluation of
situation, Evaluation (what sense make of the situation) and Action plan (Herman, Gish, &
Rosenblum, 2015).
(Source: Gibbs, G. 1998)