Management and Leadership in Nursing

Running head: MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
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MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN NURSING1
Introduction:
Nursing staffs are found to be directly associated with nearly every phases of a health
care setting’s quality which includes patient care, treatment and medication administration. It
also plays a major role in assisting the health care professionals in the operation theatres in
conducting surgeries and various different operations, and they also include patient data
collection, recovery update reporting, and other factors (MacLellan, Higgins & Levett‐Jones,
2015). The assignment will focus on discussing how people think that nurses are below the
doctors and their role is to follow the orders given to them (Sullivan, 2013).
Deciding the message
In a health care setting, the nursing staffs represents the backbone of the system while
the doctors demonstrate the brain and eyes of the health care system. Role of both the doctors
and nursing staffs are related to each other, neither of the doctor and the nursing staff can
work without the involvement of each other. The lack of knowledge regarding a health care
professionals and having wrong idea in mind that the nursing staffs are below the doctors and
their role is to follow the orders given to them has been creating problems in health care
delivery (Başoğul & Özgür, 2016). The local health care setting often face difficulty in
delivering appropriate care to the patients as they believe doctors are the only professionals to
treat them and provide care to them related to their difficulties. The people often demand to
address their issues to the doctors and do not permit the nursing staff to assist them. These
creates a matter of concern for the local health care setting in managing patients and
promoting better health condition among the locality. Thus it will be necessary to write a
letter to the editor of the local newspaper in order to generate awareness regarding the fact
that both the doctors and nurses play equal role in a health care delivery process. It was a