Clinical Leadership in Nursing

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Clinical Leadership in Nursing
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Introduction
A leader is defined as a leader of a team who provides guidance and motivation to the
team members. Nurses play an important role in delivering the care for the patients. Any
errors in the nursing care plan result in the generation of medication error or other adverse
health-related outcome and thereby helping to overall outcome of care (Wong, Cummings &
Ducharme, 2013). There have been considerable evidences that have highlighted how the
working environment of the nursing professionals like staffing of the nurses help to improve
the overall outcome of the patients like improvement in the patients’ mortality and decrease
in the adverse health-related outcomes like medication errors, hospital acquired infections,
accidental falls and pressure ulcers. However, less research has been undertaken for the
examination of the effect of nursing leadership in improving in the work environment and
how it helps to promote overall patients’ health-related outcome (Wong, Cummings &
Ducharme, 2013). The following paper aims to analyze the four research articles published
over clinical leadership on nursing. The assignment will identify the leadership theory and
other issues or problems highlighted in the literary articles. At the end, prevalence of the
research findings of each of the articles will be discussed along with subsequent
recommendation stated in the articles. The four research articles selected for this paper
include:
Ross, E. J., Fitzpatrick, J. J., Click, E. R., Krouse, H. J., & Clavelle, J. T. (2014).
Transformational leadership practices of nurse leaders in professional nursing
associations. Journal of Nursing Administration, 44(4), 201-206.
Boamah, S. A., Laschinger, H. K. S., Wong, C., & Clarke, S. (2018). Effect of
transformational leadership on job satisfaction and patient safety outcomes. Nursing
outlook, 66(2), 180-189.

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Clarke, S. (2013). Safety leadership: A meta‐analytic review of transformational and
transactional leadership styles as antecedents of safety behaviours. Journal of
Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 86(1), 22-49.
Alharbi, A. Y. (2017). Leadership styles of nurse managers and their effects on nurse and
organisational performance, issues and problems. International Journal of Information
Research and Review, 4(9), 4516-4525.
Discussion
Transformational leadership and nursing education
Transformation leadership style in nursing promotes inspirational behavior of the
nurse leaders in order to motivate the subordinates such that they can perform their
professional duties by outnumbering the expectations (Hutchinson & Jackson, 2013). Here
the nurse manager makes use of the leadership style for promoting intellectual stimulations
among the team members and thus helping in the generation of emotional intelligence,
motivation, dedication towards work and increase in the level of team bonding. In other
words, it can be stated that transformational leadership style in nursing is the most studied
leadership in nursing profession and can be easily applicable under broad clinical settings
(Hutchinson & Jackson, 2013). Ross et al. (2014) conducted an e-mail survey over 448
nurse leaders registered under the professional nurse association (PNAs) in order to elucidate
that the degree of execution of transformational leadership among them. They selected
nurses under PNAs because they are the main medium to provide the proper educational
opportunities for the nurse students along with educating the nursing students about the
importance of leadership qualities for improving the overall patients’ care. The analysis of
the survey highlighted that transformational leadership practices is the most practiced
leadership style among the nurse educators. The PNAs members who are participants of the