Nursing Leadership Patient Safety
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Added on 2020-02-24
Nursing Leadership Patient Safety
Added on 2020-02-24
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Nursing LeadershipPatient safety refers to the prevention of medical errors and adverse effects linked to healthcare. Nurses play a significant role in ensuring the safety of the patients. Patient safety depends on the nature of care given and the efficiency of nursing care depends on the leadership style used. In this case, the manner in which nurses are managed by their leaders will influence their performance. Nurse leaders have the duty of establishing patient safety policies and programs in the organizations. In addition, nurse managers make sure that sufficient resources are available for optimal quality healthcare. To achieve this, Nurse Managers use different leadership styles in order to ensure top performance from their subordinates. Some of the major leadership styles that enhance patient safety include transformational, transactional, authoritative,democratic, and laissez-faire. This paper will focus on laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational leadership styles and how they reduce medical error.Patient safety is significant in nursing and it is emphasized through the prevention of medical errors and other adverse effects relating to healthcare. Patient safety is based on the prevention, reduction, and reporting of medical errors, this depends on the nature of leadership style used by the nursing manager. The nature of leadership style used depends on the situation, thus, it is important for nurse managers to be flexible in the selection of leadership style in order to yield optimal results. Leadership styles influences the performance of nurses, which can be reflected on patient safety through a significant reduction in medical errors (World Health Organization, 2016).The first leadership style is transformational where leaders engage with their juniors in a manner that both the leader and their subordinates benefit in terms of motivation and morality
(Wong, Cummings & Ducharme, 2013). In this case, transformational leadership can be defined as a style where a leader aims at transforming and inspiring their subordinate. Transformational leader’s belief that leadership is through example, this makes transformational leaders to be motivational and proactive to their juniors in order to improve on their performance. Through thesupport the subordinates receive from their seniors, they feel motivated and encouraged, thus performing beyond expectations and also placing the interest of the patient before their own. Transformational leadership style encourages and motivates nurses to execute their duties effectively as the leadership style entails an intellectual simulation that overrides the conservative assumptions. Therefore, a transformation nurse leader is always concerned with the needs and skills of his subordinate, which encourages nurses to do their best in reducing medical errors.Further, in transactional leadership style, the leader expects the subordinates to comply with the set rules and regulation (Lorber, Treven & Mumel, 2016). In this case, those who followthe rules and achieve targets are rewarded and those who break the rules or do not follow the laidprocedures are punished. Unlike transformational leadership style, transactional nurse leaders focus on the supervision of the subordinates and ensuring that the health facility runs effectively with the safety of the patient as their major goal. Transactional leaders pay a close attention on the performance of their subordinates in order to detect faults like medical errors. This kind of leadership is suitable during an emergency or crisis and when detailed tasks regarding patient safety are needed in a particular manner (Hutchinson & Jackson, 2013).Laissez- faire is where leaders do not give instructions or give little supervision allowing the subordinates to do what they want. Nurse leaders who use this leadership style allow leaders to do things on their own having in mind that they will perform without supervision. This
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