Leadership in Nursing 4 Leadership in Nursing LEADERSHIP in Nursing

Running head: Leadership in Nursing
LEADERSHIP in NURSING
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Clinical Governance...................................................................................................................2
-consumer governance strategies...........................................................................................2
- Strategies to increase consumer participation......................................................................3
Safety and Quality......................................................................................................................4
-One standard from NSQHSS:...............................................................................................4
- Strategy to maintain safety and quality................................................................................4
Leadership and Management.....................................................................................................6
- Two evidence-based leadership skills for RN.....................................................................6
Strategies to achieve the skills-..............................................................................................7
Organizational Culture...............................................................................................................8
-Characteristics of Learning Culture:.....................................................................................8
Two of the evidence-based strategies....................................................................................8
Professional Practice..................................................................................................................9
-Professional Practice for Registered Nurses.........................................................................9
-Self-care strategies..............................................................................................................11
References:...............................................................................................................................13
Appendix:.................................................................................................................................19

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Introduction
Leadership and clinical governance are important attributes in any healthcare
organisation, as it helps in the maintenance of high quality and safe care accessible to the
people (rcn.org.uk, 2018). Also, consumer participation in the process of healthcare
transformation can also incorporate accountability and development of patient-centered care
(Mendes & Roseman, 2013). Through clinical governance, an environment of quality and
safety can be maintained as well as foster the development of a learning culture (Phillips et
al., 2017). Skills necessary for such policies can be extensively developed through health
education and leadership. Analysis of my leadership skills was done using the ‘Leadership
Skills Inventory’ from Leadership Theory and Practice (6th Ed) (Northhouse, 2013). The
essay discusses the various factors that contribute to strong leadership and clinical
governance skills, and how such skills can be developed to create an environment of
excellence and competence.
Clinical Governance
Clinical governance can be understood as an ‘umbrella term’ that includes activities
that allows the development and maintenance of high quality care for the patients. Through
clinical governance, the healthcare organizations are able to continuously improve and
maintain high quality care by fostering the development of an environment of excellence
and competence (rcn.org.uk, 2018). Clinical governance revolves around 5 key themes:
focus on patient, focus on information, improvement in quality, focus on staff and
leadership (rcn.org.uk, 2018).
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Involvement of the consumer is an important strategy to foster improvement in the
quality of healthcare, as well as for improving the effectiveness of service, maintaining
accountability of the organization and empower customers who might be disadvantaged
(Countyhealthrankings.org, 2018; Mendes & Roseman, 2013). Consumer participation can
occur at different levels like Consumer, Program Level, and Organizational level.
Different strategies that can be used to involve customer participation includes the usage of
narratives, surveys, focus groups, rapid improvement events, outreach activities, co-
design, evaluation processes, staff training, staff recruitment, formal committees, and
reporting (healthissuescentre.org.au, 2018). Two strategies that can be selected from these
are the usage of customer/ consumer/ patient surveys and training of the staff to support
the development of a close cooperation between patient and healthcare team, and reinforce
their capacity of self care as well as helping the nurses to understand the patients better
(Sahlsten et al., 2018).
- Strategies to increase consumer participation
Coultier (2016) suggested that patient feedback can be useful in the improvement of
healthcare quality. Feedback from patients can be collected through surveys which allow
patients to share their views through interviews, feedbacks or reports. Boiko et al. (2015) also
supported such a view as their studies showed that feedback from patient experience surveys
creates a therapeutic approach towards getting the concerns of the patients being heard by the
staff, identify areas of improvement and can be used as an evidence for professional
development and appraisal.
Nurses play an important role in the improvement of patient participation by
acknowledging as well as facilitating patient participation in nursing activities. However, the
need to incorporate safety for each participant and proper assessment of risks can complicate