Nursing Leadership and Patient Safety: Importance of Different Leadership Styles

Running head: NURSING
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Nursing leadership
Essay
Student
8/3/2019

NURSING
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Nursing is a professional course, which involves the prevention and care of hospitalized
patients. For midwives, the health and safety of the patient is an ethical responsibility. However,
it can be observed that every year, 1 in 4 patients being severely injured while receiving
ambulatory and more than 2.6 million people on an annual basis due to unsafe care (World
Health Organization , Patient safety, 2019). All these statistics display that, there is a need for
responsible leadership in the health care system. Therefore, nursing leadership plays a vital role
in ensuring premium health services to injured and sick patients.
During the routine activity in the nursing department, every midwife was assigned a role
to prepare a PowerPoint presentation and thus present it. In which they have to discuss,
challenges they are facing and what are necessary steps that have to be taken to overcome those
problems. As an ICU nurse, I presented the presentation where I highlighted the important facts
that describe the relationship of leadership and patient’s safety, and what is the different style of
leadership that contributes in the development safe and secure environment for the patients.
Therefore, in the essay, the focus is on leadership style and patient’s safety and what are the
different leadership style that must be followed by solving the issues of the patients
Leadership is a method practiced by the managers to instruct and guide the effort of
employees towards the achievement of organizational goals. It is an art followed by the
managers to motivate their employees so they perform with their full potential and inspire their
peers to work with zest and enthusiasm ( Cope & Murray, 2017). Moreover, leadership is
essential for the growth of an organization as induces the energies of an individual in the right
direction and bring effective changes in an organization.

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In the health care industry, leadership act as a nervous system of the nursing department
as it directs the medical practitioners and nurses to provide quality services and treatment to the
patients. Nurse managers lead the behaviour of medical professionals to conduct their activities
ethically and maintain decorum while treating the patients. In addition to this, leadership
coordinates the efforts of the nurses and doctors so that they can practice health care services
with integrity, which is vital for the survival of the system (World Health Organization, Chapter
10: Leadership and Management, 2019).
In the Nursing department, it means avoiding any kind of harm or damage that can
adversely affect the health and safety of the patients. It involves the reduction of unforeseen
harm or threat thus minimizing the risk associated with the health of the patients. From the last
few decades, the health care system has done tremendous growth and technological
advancement, which has assisted patients to take timely medication and receive effective
treatment to cure the disease. To promote this global campaign, it is celebrated World Patient
Safety Day on 17 September. However, in spite of such development, it has been recognized that
about 134 million adverse incidents have been occurred in the past, due to the neglecting attitude
followed in the heath cares premises. Besides this, its adverse impact can be observed in
underdeveloped countries like Syria and Africa, where the reforms have been taken by the
government to solve the issue due to which there has been an increment in mortality rate.
Nevertheless, a nation like Australia has improved its health care system. As per the
report (2012-2013) published COAG, which is a reform council in healthcare Australia,
displayed that there is a rise in the average life span and the death rates have been fallen.
Addition to this, in 2014 -2015 it was analysed that every 4th citizen in 5 citizens has rated their
medical condition good with no symptom of sickness or disease and contrary to this (Australia