Effective Nursing Leadership Styles for Quality Patient Outcome

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP
Nursing Leadership
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Introduction
Nursing is a dynamic yet challenging profession that requires engaging and inspiring
leaders or role models. Proper implementation of the specific nursing leadership theories and
styles of leadership helps to increase the quality of care. The following assignment is based
on interview conducted over three different nursing leaders and analysis of their nursing
leadership styles.
Thesis statement
Effective nursing leadership styles help to increase the quality of care of overall
patient’s outcome
Preferred leadership styles and its importance
Leader 1
Preferred leadership style: Transformational leadership
Leader 1 is of the opinion that the preferred leadership style is transformational
leadership. It is a type of leadership, in which the behavior of the leader transforms and
inspires the teammates. This help them r to deliver beyond the expectations while
transcending self-interest for the betterment of the organization. Leader 1 opined that, “my
transformational leadership styles helped me to reduce the reported cases of the medication
errors along with improvement in the patient mortality”. Leader 1 also opined that,
“following transformational leadership also helped me to motivate my team mates and
keeping them dedicated towards their work”. This opinion of leaders 1 holds significance
under the context of the published literature. According to Hutchinson and Jackson (2013) a
transformational leader provides inspirational motivation involving vision of the future to
their followers and motivating them to deliver beyond the expectations. This intellectual
stimulation generates a positive energy, helping the nursing professionals working under

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transformational nursing leaders to deliver their best during pressure and that too on quality;
this reduces the overall chances of error.
Leader 2
Preferred leadership styles: Servant leadership
Leader 2 is of the opinion in his leadership style, he make sure to satisfy the
requirement of the individual team members while giving each person personalized inputs in
the decision making process. Thus, it can be said that leader 2 follows servant leadership
style. According to Parris and Peachey (2013) servant-leader puts the requirement of the
others first and thereby helping people to develop and perform in a highly productive manner.
Here the power pyramid is turned upside down that is instead of people working to serve the
leaders, the leader serves the people. This unlocks the purpose and ingenuity of the
teammates, helping to secure higher performance and engaged team collaboration. Leader 2
is of the opinion that, “In my leadership styles, I actively listen to the requirement of my team
mates and support them in their decision making process and this helped me to earn their
faith and loyalty and thereby increasing overall team performance”. In nursing, increase in
the team performance is guided by the increase in the quality of care procured to the patients.
Leader 3
Preferred leadership styles: Democratic leadership
Leader 3 is of the opinion that the, “I encourage in open communication and include
my team members in the decision-making process. For me the relationship is important
among the team members who help to focus on the quality improvement as a ream rather
than highlighting the mistakes of the others”. Thus, Leader 3 follows democratic leadership
style in nursing. According to Giltinane (2013), a democratic nursing leader tend to increase