Leadership in Nursing Assignment PDF
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Running head: LEADERSHIP IN NURSINGLEADERSHIP IN NURSINGName of the student:Name of the universities:Author note:
1LEADERSHIP IN NURSINGIntroduction:Leadership is found to be an important component of any organization that seeks to driveimprovements in the quality of the healthcare as well as in the safety of the patients. In thepresent generations, healthcare delivery systems are seen to shift from their volume-basedsystems to that of value-based systems and therefore leaders are facing new as well as differentchallenges that require new behaviors, ideas as well as actions (Kouzes et al. 2014). Effectiveleadership is mainly comprising of ensuring direction, alignment as well as commitment withinthe teams as well as within the organizations. Direction mainly helps in ensuring agreement aswell as pride among the people in relation to which the organization is trying to achieve andhelps to be consistent with vision, values as well as strategy. Alignment mainly refers to theestablishment of effective coordination as well as integration of the work. Leaders also need toensure commitment from the staffs in the healthcare that is manifested by every healthcareprofessional in the organization taking the responsibility and therefore making it a personalpriority for ensuring the success of the organization as a whole (Kelly et al. 2014). Effectiveleaders in the nursing profession and in other healthcare services are mainly seen to emphasizecontinually on the safe, high quality as well as compassionate care making it the topmostpriorities. Leaders are mainly seen to ensure that the voice of the patient is constantly heard atevery level. They also make sure that patient experiences, needs, concerns as well as feedbacksare consistently attended to (ross et al. 2014). They are also seen to be supportive, empathic,available, fair, respectful as well as compassionate and empowering leaderships. They are alsoseen to promote participation as well as involvement in eth care as the core leadership strategy.They make sure that the voice of their staffs are heard, they are encouraged to show their bestpotential, providing practical support to staff and also to innovate with safe boundaries.
2LEADERSHIP IN NURSINGTherefore, leaders play an important role in the nursing profession taking the responsibility ofnot only teams serving the patients but also the responsibility of the patients’ welfare (Kouzes etal. 2017). This assignment will thereby show how the important five exemplary leadershippractices could be developed along with the ten leadership commitments so that the leadershiptrait exhibited helps the team members of nursing to exhibit their best skills and help in meetingthe organizational goals and missions.Example of leadership that I have experienced in myself:During the times of clinical placement, I got the opportunity to become a leader of about10 fresher nursing professionals who were very new to the healthcare system and had no priorexperiences beforehand. Although they had good theoretical knowledge, they did not have theproper experience to attend patients and care for them effectively. However, I was also new tothe role of leadership and could not understand how to initiate the system of leading. I assignedthem with tasks and asked them to start attending to their roles. They seemed to be confused butcould not state their concerns to me. I developed the idea that though gradual experiences, theywould be able to learn. When one of them came back with a complaint, that she is unable tounderstand how to approach with the tasks. I blamed her stating that she had not completed heracademics properly and so she is facing issues. When a crisis arrived as more than ten childrenhad been admitted for cholera from a school, I grew nervous and could not understand how totackle so many children at the same time. Seeing me nervous, the team members also got scaredand nervous and one of them was on the verge of crying as she got scared of failing to face thechildren. I could not help them gather courage at that instance and my mentor in turn handled iteffectively. I have also failed to provide any innovative ways of development and therefore theteam members got easily burned out. I have always tried playing safe in my leadership roles and
3LEADERSHIP IN NURSINGhad never taken any risks. Therefore, my mentor had criticized my approach stating that failureto take risks never results any leaders to the zenith of success. Moreover, one of the mostimportant mistakes that I had made in my leadership roles is that I have failed to establish a senseof bonding among the team members. The team members were seen to not communicate amongeach other and therefore different types of issues were noticed in the healthcare centre. It wasseen that there were many cases of medication errors and were long waiting times for the patient.Moreover, it was seen that patients were not satisfied with the work of the nurses stating that theprofessionals argues among themselves in front of the patients only. Power struggles wereobserved between them and they were seen to not interact with each other for discussion of thehealth of the patients. Another mistake that I had also made was that I had failed to motivate themembers of the team and never provided importance to their dedication and good quality work. Ialways had the idea that it was the duty of professionals to care for patients and therefore neverfelt the need to acknowledge the help provided by the fresher in taking care of the patients in anexceptionally evidence based manner. Moreover, many of the members of team wanted to resignfrom the organization as they felt that I was pressurizing them to an extent that was becomingunbearable for them. They believed that they were not getting any additional guidance that theyrequire to learn the work for and hence they are feeling helpless in many situations. They statedthat they were not able to develop any kind of learning and were very concerned, as they werenot leaning any new skills or knowledge by being on the floor. They believed that they have veryfew scope of development under my leadership.First Practice:After thorough analysis of the leadership style that was followed, I developed anunderstanding that I had not been able to properly follow a number of important aspects that
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