Leadership in Healthcare

Running head: LEADESRHIP IN HEALTHCARE
LEADESRHIP IN HEALTHCARE
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Introduction:
In the modern generation, healthcare had become highly dynamic in nature and is
constantly changing because of the rising of various demands of the patients in the nation. The
nursing professionals are now facing excessive pressure of the increased number of old aged
patients who are suffering from chronic disorders (Frankel et al., 2019). They not only have to
serve the needs of the old patients but at the same time they have to follow the nursing guidelines
in every of their actions that initiate from medication errors to that of safe handling of the
patients. they also have to contribute their time to delegation, multidisciplinary teamwork and
many others which altogether makes the nursing profession quite challenging. Moreover, every
healthcare organization also expects their nursing professionals to follow evidence based
practices for which nurses need to engage in evidence based services and also continuous
professional development which is also time consuming and tiring. In such situations, nurses
might feel lost, confused as well as stressed out with loss of vision, confusion with their job role
as well as lack of skill and knowledge and many others (Asamani et al., 2016). Therefore, it
becomes important to guide the nurses in such situations and nursing leaders take up the
responsibility to guide the nurses in various ways so that the nurses can provide not only safe
and quality care to patients but they can also ensure patient satisfaction. However, a particular
leadership style can never be a[applied in every situation as the traits of the leadership ,might not
suffice the demands of leading nurses in such situation. the assignment would portray the
rationale to the remarks made and this would be done through the help of different examples and
scenarios.
Transformational leadership is considered to be the best form of leadership that motivates
the nursing professionals to work beyond their potential and reach the goals set by the

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organization. These leaders are seen to encourage nurses to provide their best at work and ensure
that they remain positive in their morale and do not develop any negative feelings about their
work. Such leaders are mainly seen to achieve this by aligning the nurses to the particular vision
and mission of the organization and guiding them in every way possible to reach the set goals.
Such leaders are seen to set themselves as the role model often exhibiting hands-on activities to
the nurses to show them how to tackle different situations in their clinical practices (Demeh et
al., 2015). By setting themselves as an example, they help the subordinates to visualize and
thereby develop traits that help to provide quality safe care to patients. Such leaders are mainly
seen to use motivation as the main weapon for making their employees learn new techniques of
clinical practices, taking positive feedback and thereby achieving mission and vision
successfully. This form of leadership can be well applied to the situations when student nurses
are placed on the ward for learning skills and ways of working in the healthcare environment.
Such new nurses always remain anxious and fearful about treating patients for the first time and
are seen to be low on confidence of transferring theoretical knowledge to practical fields. Hence,
in such situations, transformation leaders are found to provide the best guidance by working as
role models whom the new nurses can follow to gain new knowledge (Asiri et al., 2016).
Moreover, they ask for feedback from the new nurses who make them feel that are treated
respectfully and this increases their morale and dedication to their works. They constantly
motivate the new nurses so that they can overcome their fear and become confident to achieve
the set goals and adjust with the new environment.
However, transformational leadership cannot be applied in situations when there arise
crises. During the times of crisis, nursing professionals are seen to become anxious and
delusional. Here, nurse leaders need to take urgent decisions and they have to develop