Nursing Leadership

RUNNING HEAD: NURSING LEADERSHIP 1
Nursing Leadership
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NURSING LEADERSHIP 2
Nursing Leadership
Nurse leaders help make decisive decisions that help better the current health care system in
hospitals. They develop strategies and find ways to enact or impose these strategies in peaceful
manners hence improving the healthcare system. Listed below are the strategies nurses can use
and how they can implement them by being role models to others.
Nurse leaders should motivate the staff nurses to encourage patients to comply with filling in
their prescriptions as per stated by the doctors. The nurses ought to be well aware of their
patient’s ability to afford the medication prescribed and should also encourage their patients
more often to apply for insurance care which may aid in catering their medical bills (Murray,
2017). Nurses should also keep tabs on their patient`s once they complete their prescription and
they require a refill. Nurses should analyze the case with the doctors responsible for issuing the
medication and allow the doctor to deem what is the best choice for the patient. This can be
achieved if the nurse leaders improve the communication skills between hospitals and other
pharmacies. Development of a medical record for every patient that gets a prescription and
storing their records in form of data in a secure computerized system that is only accessible by
qualified medical practitioners to avoid any misuse or illegal issuing of drugs. (Parand, Dopson,
Renz, & Vincent, 2014). Nurse leaders can achieve this by improving communication
between all medical practitioners in a hospital. The level of communication should be up-to-date
information concerning the patient care, treatments and services rendered, and any expected
changes. The medic staff, ought to be interactive to enable easier discussion between those who
give and receive patient information to make good calls about how to deal with the patients. If
the nurse leaders can encourage all the staff in hospitals to work and count on each other by