Effective Leadership for Optimizing Patient Safety and Healthy Workplace

NURSING
LEADERSHIP
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Introduction
◦ This report critically evaluates concepts and skills relevant to effective leadership
aimed at optimizing patient safety and a healthy workplace.
◦ It also explains clinical leadership expectations for beginning new graduate nurses
including the scope of practice and legal and ethical boundaries.
◦ It discuses the use of knowledge, evidence, communication, and networks as
supportive elements of effective leadership.
◦ NSW health minister, Jillian Skinner has issued the 12 point action plan due to
declining the workforce violence issue form the working place and increasing the
security.

Critically reflect upon concepts and skills relevant to
effective leadership aimed at optimizing patient
safety and a healthy workplace
◦ The main problem of this study is to evaluate the workplace violence towards
nurses. The workplace occupational violence is determined as physical abuse which
could create the threat of employee health safety at the working place (Peters-
Hawkins, et al., 2018).
◦ This problem could create conflict among employee for meeting the aim of the
organization (Regan, et al., 2016).
◦ In addition, it can also be stated that this issue could increase the frustration
among employee that would mandate the employee to conduct bad behavior with
patients (Finkelman, 2017).
◦ UP to 90% of staff who are worked in the emergency departments have
experienced violence in their profession as it is higher incident in this department.

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◦ In this, a dynamic leadership style could be used by an individual due to increasing
patient safety at the working place. This method could enable to the teammates to
freely share their solution in the team and enables them to conduct effective
decision.
◦ It is addressed that effective leadership provides a path to an individual to
complete their desire acts ineffective way and get higher competitive advantages
(Herman, et al., 2015).