Nursing Leadership: Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes

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Effective leaderships are very important in the environment of the healthcare settings as it
contributes in providing safe and efficient care to the patients. The registered nurses play a vital
role in delivering the optimum care to the patients. So by taking the help of supportive guidance
and appropriate styles of leaderships the nurses can provide improved healthcare services,
improve the satisfaction of the workplace and promote the safety of the patient as well as
increase the outcomes of the patient. The culture of the organization is one of the key factors
which help in maintaining the safety of the patient as well as the safety of the organization. The
different kinds of leadership styles which can be implemented in any organization are
transactional, transformational, servant, democratic, autocratic, bureaucratic, laissez-faire and
charismatic leaderships (Sarto & Veronesi, 2016). The thesis statement is the use of proper
leadership styles can improve the safety of the patient. This assignment is going to discuss about
hoe the transactional and transformational leadership improves the safety of the patient and the
advantages of these two leadership styles.
A modest definition of leadership is the ability of inspiring individuals or groups of
people to act in an effective way to attaining a common goal. The leadership definition signifies
the essentiality of being capable in inspiring others and being prepared to do that. Effective
leadership is based upon ideas of whether the qualities are original or borrowed, but the quality
of leadership will not happen unless those ideas are connected to others in a method that engages
them enough to act as the leader wants them to act (Popescu & Predescu, 2016). An accurate and
appropriate style of leadership attribute all the necessary aspects which advances towards a
safety and healthy involved. The leadership can be define as the one of the key aspect leading to
the success or to the failure of the organization (Martin, 2015). The leaders should have the
ability to influence and motivate individual people as well as a group of people towards the

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vision or goal which been shared. The leaders express the goals of any organization by
remodeling the behaviors that they are expecting. Any risk associated with the safety of the
patient must be removed. For example, the cases of medication error, which is a common
incident and effects the safety of the patient. For evaluating any changes to reduce the incidences
of medication error, proper leadership styles have to be analyzed. The leaders may prepare
posters for safe medication administration, expecting others to follow the posters to avoid any
punishment but the nurses are not able to utilize this properly and so it can be said that the
transformational leadership will not be able to maintain the safety of the patient. The clinical
leaderships is very essential for running healthcare systems and particularly the nurses should
have the responsibilities in displaying the clinical leaderships. The leadership of the nurses are
not only dependent on the personalities of the nurses bur also are influenced by the situations
(Sarto & Veronesi, 2016). The significances of the leaderships in nursing are prioritized fur
meeting the demanding needs of the healthcare environment and also in preventing from any
hazardous clinical incidences. The nursing leadership can be defined as the interactive prices
which the nurses use in influencing the behavior of other staffs by motivating them to maintain
the quality of clinical care. The nursing leaders share their vision, set new directions, closely
monitoring the progress and providing assistance in sustaining and achieving the maximum
outcome of the patients. The nurses are critically adopt the leadership behavior in working
together with the multidisciplinary team and in providing effort in achieving satisfaction of the
patient improvement (Démeh & Rosengren, 2015). The connection that has been noticed
between the leadership and the safety of the patients, has emphasized the responsibilities and
roles of the leaders for encouraging the staffs to acknowledge the errors. It has also emphasized