Exploring Nursing Leadership and Management in Healthcare: Key Aspects and Challenges

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Management
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Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................2
Nursing leadership and Management.......................................................................................2
Ministry of Health (MOH)....................................................................................................... 2
Characteristics of effective nurse clinical leaders.....................................................................3
Significant concepts in nursing leadership and management....................................................4
Education..............................................................................................................................4
Ethics.................................................................................................................................... 5
Institutional transformational program.................................................................................5
Current challenges/barriers faced by healthcare...................................................................6
Effective communication in healthcare.................................................................................6
Quality control in MOH........................................................................................................7
Transformational leadership in MOH.......................................................................................7
Recommendations.................................................................................................................... 8
Conclusion............................................................................................................................... 8
References................................................................................................................................ 9

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Introduction
The assignment brings about the discussion on the significant aspects of nursing leadership
and management in context to the healthcare. Leadership in any organisation refers to the
process of influencing the behaviour of people, towards accomplishing the goals and mission.
Thus, it can be stated that the concept of effective leadership and management is considered a
vital component of healthcare system which leads to the long-term growth and success. The
key aspects in the field of nursing leadership and management will mention the compliance to
ethics, education, communication, planning, and staff motivation. In addition, the report in
the later part will describe communication required by the nursing leaders and managers
which impacts their practice in the healthcare.
Nursing leadership and Management
Discussing about the clinical leadership or leadership in context to the healthcare, it can be
stated that nursing is the profession that requires selfless leadership. Nurses or health
professionals in the hospitals are expected to perform a number of duties such as ensuring the
high standards of patient care, through effective management of resources (Thompson and
Hyrkas, 2014). In healthcare management, there are two key aspects which must be
emphasised, i.e. developing essential skills, and effective and efficient management of
resources, i.e. both human and financial resources. To state about the nursing leadership, it
has been found through the research that the main concept of the leadership are based on
commitment, vision, and direction (Huber, 2017).
Clinical leadership are understood with their main focus on the patients and healthcare teams
rather on acquiring formal leadership positions. Therefore, the leadership practices relates to
the nursing professional activities, which may include taking direct care at bedside, i.e.
specific to their patients (Alkhamis, Hassan and Cosgrove, 2014).
Ministry of Health (MOH)
To state the healthcare services, and the concepts of nursing leadership and management in
context to Saudi Arabia it can be stated that the healthcare organisations within country are
constantly focused towards providing quality care. In addition, the role of government has
been observed vital in transforming the nature and aim of the healthcare delivery systems in

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Saudi Arabia. Therefore, to explain and make readers aware of the key aspects of nursing
leadership and management, MOH has been chosen as the healthcare organisation (Aldosari,
2014).
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has been the major government provider of the healthcare
facilities or services to the people or consumers in Saudi Arabia. The healthcare organisation
is found to be providing their services at all the levels to the patients, i.e. at primary level,
secondary level, and tertiary level (World Health Organisation, 2018). The healthcare
organisation is assumed to undertake the responsibility of providing quality care services, and
ensuring effective health of their patients. Due to this, there is an increasing burden on the
organisation, high level of autonomy has been given to the regional directorate for the
purpose of planning, recruitment of the staff, formulation off agreements with the health
service providers and other financial aspects (UICC, 2018).
Looking at the above discussion it can be stated that the healthcare organisation contributes
major to the public health, within nation and strives to attain higher excellence and success.
Thus, the below section in the report will enlist the key features, and other significant aspects
of clinical leadership, and management in context to the healthcare organisation MOH.
Characteristics of effective nurse clinical leaders
Nurse leaders are crucial to the functioning of the healthcare system, and treatment of the
patients, therefore a successful nurse manager or leader is one who has the ability to think
critically and open to the new ideas and environment. The nurse manager must have
knowledge of their duties and must be clinically competent and efficient in their duties and
responsibilities.
Advocacy: In some of the cases, in the healthcare or hospitals in Saudi Arabia nurse
managers are required to advocate their staff to ensure safe and reasonable practice
environment. In addition, they also need to focus on the aspect of the quality of services or
care provided to their patients (Chávez and Yoder, 2015).
Critical thinking: The skill of developing critical thinking and knowledge is considered
vital in healthcare due to the increased multidisciplinary collaborations. Thus, in Saudi
Arabia the nurse leaders are aware and more engaged with their practitioners maintaining the
skills of critical thinking.