Nursing Leadership: Role, Styles and Challenges in Healthcare

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP
Nursing Leadership
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Methodology..............................................................................................................................2
Results and Findings..................................................................................................................5
Discussion..................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Health care system is a complex network of inter-connected system which encompass
a large number of individuals both patients and healthcare professionals along with different
organisations with different expertise. In order to function in a proper manner, in this
interconnected system, the healthcare professions are required to understand the importance
of working as a team under the guidance of a leader who deliver the best to the patients at the
time of emergency. The following report aims to analyse the main role of nursing leader in
the healthcare profession and how these roles are successful in bringing change in the quality
of the cure plan while working in unison with different organisations and different group of
professionals. The analysis of the leadership role will be based on the face to face interview
conducted with leader of nursing department, director of nursing. The answers of the
interview questions will be critically analysed under the light of the available yet relevant
literary papers and subsequently a conclusion will be draw abased on the available literary
evidence and the response of the interviewee.
Methodology
According to the reports published by Gleeson (2018) effective leadership is a pillar
of any organisations and not all the situations demands identical leadership styles. It is the
duty of an effective leader to bring changes in his leadership styles based on the need of the
surrounding environment and thereby helping team to perform better during stringent
situations. Some of the unique leadership approach that has been described by Gleeson
(2018) has been elaborated below in a tabular format.
Leaders having faith on their own leadership styles
The ability of a leader to make hard choices during emergency situations

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Knowing the team members from core
Giving proper recognition to the talents via recognising members of the team as a principal key
towards success
Pushing the members of the team beyond their limit in order to achieve their best
Helping the team to serve for the better cost
Active help and support for the team members via providing proper education, motivation and
delegation
Never leading the team via force while on contrary, leading the team via inspiring without
intimidation
Table: Traits of an effective leader
(Source: Gleeson 2018)
The organisation selected for the conducting the interview is the emergency
department (ED) in one of the leading Australian health care organisations (hospital). The
reason behind the selection of ED, there is always a high pressure environment in the ED
(Flowerdew et al. 2012). The main reason highlighted behind this is high level of workload
along with shortages of staffs along with a target for 4 hours (Flowerdew et al. 2012).
According to the government of Australia, patients are required to be admitted or discharged
from the ED within 4 hours of arrival (Sullivan et al. 2016). According to Flowerdew et al.
(2012), this high work pressure is accompanied with lack of proper co-operation along with
numerous conflicts which further contribute towards the escalating work pressure. This
increase in work stress further leads to the development of the emotional exhaustion along
with diminished personal accomplishments and these together cumulates into increase in
compassion fatigue along with urn out (Gökçen et al., 2013). Rouleau et al. (2012) is of the
opinion that increase in burnout along with decrease in job satisfaction creates an intention to
quit the job and thereby causing high turnover rate. Thus tracking the leadership styles in ED