Nursing Leadership

Running Head: NURSING LEADERSHIP 1
Nursing Leadership
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Introduction
The registered nurses must use leadership styles so that the health care outcomes will be
meant. The clinical nurse leaders are responsible for guiding the departments in their health care
to have improved treatment to the patients. This means that the nurses who are in leadership
should v be equipped with better leadership skills so that they can correctly lead their staff. To
incorporate any leadership style in health care, it means that the health programs will be
coordinated effectively. The nurse leaders can lead the nurse procedures effectively and also
their administrative activities within their places (Kaiser, 2017). This means that the nurse
leaders should select the leadership skill which will bring positive health care outcome. It is good
for every nurse leader to understand all the leadership styles and choose the best which can be
incorporated in the health care he or she is leading. In the report, four leadership styles will be
discussed, showing how registered nurse leaders incorporate them in the health care setting. The
four leadership styles include authoritarian or autocratic leadership, Laissez leadership,
transactional leadership, and transformational leadership.
In autocratic leadership, a nurse leader gives direction in a dictatorship way. This means
that he or she doesn’t consult anyone for the advice. When nurse leaders incorporate this style,
they use the benevolent dictatorship, which means that the team members send their concerns
following the chain of command (Bernardes et al.,2016). This type of leadership style is
straightforward because members of the team fear the leader; hence, there is no time of
questioning concerning any issue. This means the autocratic leader must decide on his own
without consulting other team members. This type of leadership is applied in health care in many

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instances. For example, when the physicians give medical orders to the clients, he or she does
consult anyone for the directives.
This style is also applied when the nurse leader makes shift assignments to the nurses.
This means that he or she don’t ask them when there are free to be placed, but they use autocratic
leadership, and no one complains because they understand it's their responsibility. Moreover,
there is also a time when the nurse leaders make hard decisions on their own, and this is
commonly in time where the crisis unfolds in health care (Pullen, 2016). This type of leadership
is very good as there is no time for voting; this means that nurse leaders can make their decisions
easily, which are incorporated by the team members without complaining. In the time of
emergency and large scale disaster, this type of leadership style is required so that the team can
do their work effectively to save lives. For the nurses who incorporates autocratic leadership,
they ensure that quality care is delivered in the health care at all times (Sfantou et al., 2017).
This means nurse leaders make critical decisions so that they cannot pose a risk to the
patients who need their help. For this, they should be clear, concise, and direct when organizing
their team so that to ensure that every employ complies with the facilities standard procedures.
This type of leaders enables the nurses to follow strict rules, for example, in health care where
they have critical volumes of patients. In discharging and admitting patients, these type of
leadership is used so that to ensure that quality services are being offered to the patients. In that,
it means that the patients can’t complain when an autocratic nurse leader makes a decision.
Moreover, even clinical nurse is not supposed to make any decision upon the judgment of the
nurse leader (McCay, Lyles and Larkey, 2018).
The other leadership style is Laissez Faire. This types of leadership offer the employees
freedom hence allowing them to make decisions and work without any pressure. This type of