Effective Nursing Leadership for Patient Safety and Healthy Workplace

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Slide 1: Introduction
Research topic
The research topic of this study is to evaluate the workplace violence towards nurses.
Introduction
This report critically evaluates concepts and skills relevant to effective leadership aimed at
optimizing patient safety and a healthy workplace. Further, it also explains clinical leadership
expectations for beginning new graduate nurses including the scope of practice and legal and
ethical boundaries. Moreover, it explains the use of knowledge, evidence, communication,
and networks as supportive elements of effective leadership
Slide 2: Critically reflect upon concepts and skills relevant to effective leadership aimed
at optimizing patient safety and a healthy workplace
The main problem of this study is to evaluate the workplace violence towards nurses. The
workplace occupational violence is determined as physical abuse which could create the
threat of employee health safety at the working place (Peters-Hawkins, et al., 2018). UP to
90% of staff who are worked in the emergency departments have experienced violence in
their profession as it is higher incident in this department.
The health care organization could deeply determine this issue due to generating an effective
working place. This problem could create threat among nurses to effectively treating with the
patients. (Regan, et al., 2016). The higher threat among nurses could directly be affecting the
productivity of the firm. In the recent period, the organization has deeply evaluated many
ways to eliminate workplace violence and support to eliminate the fear of violence at the
working place form the side of patients. In addition, it can also be stated that this issue could
increase the frustration among employee that would mandate the employee to conduct bad
behaviour with patients (Finkelman, 2017). The government of Australia has providing many
facilitates to the hospitals to eliminate the workplace violence from the organization named

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as use of CCTV cameras, and higher force of security. Further, it is illustrated that effective
leadership could be imperative to lead each team members for conducting suitable behavior
at the working place. NSW health minister, Jillian Skinner has issued the 12 point action plan
due to declining the workforce violence issue form the working place and increasing the
security.
It would encourage an employee to perform their best in the working place. It is examined
that leadership could be imperative in the accomplishment of the organizational task. In this,
a dynamic leadership style could be used by an individual due to increasing patient safety at
the working place. This method could enable to the teammates to freely share their solution in
the team and enables them to conduct effective decision. This leadership style is more
suitable as compared to other methods. From the analysis, it is founded that effective
leadership style could make liable to the organization for the accomplishment of the
organizational task. It is addressed that effective leadership provides a path to an individual to
complete their desire acts ineffective way and get higher competitive advantages (Herman, et
al., 2015).
Slide 3: Explain clinical leadership expectations for beginning new graduate nurses
including the scope of practice and legal and ethical boundaries
It is also founded that there is a certain skill which is essential for new nursing graduates
named as emotional intelligence, integrity, critical thinking, communication skills, and
respect (Scully, 2015). As new nursing graduates, I was accountable for the critically review
the organizational issue and make higher competitive advantages. I directly communicate
with the employee who is working in the team due to mitigating their issues and make enable
the people to conduct suitable behavior. Effective communication will be imperative in
mitigating the conflict issue, which would directly be affecting the productivity of the firm. I
also deeply evaluate emotions of others before reacting on others as I have an effective