Enhancing Nursing Leadership Skills for Interprofessional Collaboration

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Introduction:
Leader is the one who leads a team with the help of their knowledge and skill. Leader is the one,
whom different people can trust blindly in decision making. In nursing, leader inspires others to work
with quality in order to achieve a common goal such as better patient care. A good leader possess
various quality such as courage, integrity, initiative, capacity to handle whole team as well as stress. It is
also helpful in maintaining inter-professional relationship. Inter-professional relationship in the
healthcare is foundation aspect in order to promote collaborative healthcare. Inter-professional
relationship encourages team work by involving different healthcare professional in collaboration with
the patient and their carers in order to formulate a patient care plan for better recovery of the patient. It
assist in formulating c=better care plan and discuss the safety and care of the patient which enhances the
health outcomes.
Discussion:
According to, Smith et al., (2018), inter- professional relationship helps in facilitating nursing
leadership and it also helps in enhancing change that helps in to provide suitable environment for a
patients and co-workers for better result. Inter-professional skills helps in enhancing the personal
qualities such as, commitment, empathy, knowledge and enthusiasm.
The main of the article is to evaluate the effect of leadership in the inter-professional health as
well as social care teams. To evaluate the nursing leadership in inter-professional, critical review is
conducted. Literature is conducted using systemic methods and help of that systemic methods, a
framework is formulated that helps in gathering information about the inter-professional skill. In order
to complete the research, 28 papers were reviewed. In the paper different theme that is associated with
the nursing leadership are reviewed accordingly. These themes are, facilitating the shared relationship,
change and transformation, personal quality achievement, innovation and creativity, goal alignment,

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communication, team-building and leadership clarity. From the literature, it is identified that leadership
have their effect on the inter-professional relationship. It enhances innovation as well as improvement
(Smith et al., 2018).
According to Clarke & Hassmiller, (2013), inter-professional education helps in enhancing the
inter-professional relation among the organization. It also helps in enhancing the inter-professional k
collaboration by the nursing leader. According to IOM, future of nursing, 2012, there are some core
principles and values of evaluated for the effective healthcare based on health. These values and
principles such as, honesty, curiosity, humility, creativity and discipline helps the nursing leader to
maintain inter-professional relation. Maintenance of inter-professional relationship in nursing leader
depends upon five common goals such as, shared goals, mutual trust, clear roles, effective
communication and measurable outcomes and process (Clarke & Hassmiller, 2013).
According to Regan, Laschinger & Wong, (2016), structural empowerment and authentic
leadership promotes inter-professional collaboration among nurses. The main of the article is to examine
the fresh graduate nurse’s perception that is influenced by structural empowerment and traditional
leadership which helps in enhancing the inter-professional collaboration that effects the healthcare. As
there are many challenges associated in the inter-professional collaboration, hence nurses avoid being a
part of such collaboration. Therefore, after research it is identified that, nurse leader’s provides efforts in
influencing the effective collaboration among the acute healthcare setting. The fresh graduate nurse are
influenced by these leaders to get involved in the inter-professional collaboration. In order to get the
research done, non-experimental design, which is predictive is formulated to check the effect of nurse
leader in facilitating inter-professional collaboration. From the result it is analyzed that 24% of the total
variance in supposed interprofessional collaboration was elucidated by structural empowerment and
leader genuine leadership (R2 = 0.24, F = 29.55, P = .001). Structural empowerment (β = .288) and