Transformational Leadership in Nursing

Running head: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
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Leaders can be defined as the individuals who take on the responsibility of guiding the
subordinates in ways by which achieving organizational goals become much easier. The leaders
are mainly seen to help subordinates overcome various barriers that come in the way of meeting
the objectives. They tend to motivate them making them work beyond their potential helping
them to achieve organizational mission and vision. Everything sectors of industrialization over
the year have seen examples of best leaders. they have helped the organization to overcome crisis
period and emerge out victorious through proper decision making skills, risk taking abilities.
They also help in encouraging employees to align with organizational goals (Vaismoradi et al.,
2016). Moreover, they also ensure employee dedication in the organization by attending the
issues faced by the individuals while trying to work for the betterment of the organization. In the
healthcare sector, leadership is a core criterion in the nursing domain. An expert leader has the
capability to encourage professionals to align with their philosophy at the same time ensuring
that they are working towards maintaining the safety of the service users. With the passage of
time, different types of leadership theories have come up (Fischer et al., 2016). This assignment
will mainly show how transformational leadership has helped to change the face of healthcare
ensuring not only the safety of patients but also high morale of nurses and better productivity of
the organization and profit.
The nature of the healthcare centers is continually changing due to the advancements
made in the field of medical science every passing year. Modifications in the technological
systems, patterns of care, new demands and needs of the present population and many others had
provided an ever-changing stature of the healthcare industry (Lin et al., 2015). Due to this
continually metamorphic nature of the healthcare system of the nation, researchers are of the
opinion that nursing professionals need to employ transformational leadership style. The

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leadership style mainly aims is to encourage professionals for adaptation to changes and helps
the leaders in recognizing areas where change is required. The leaders thereby guide the nursing
subordinates by inspiring them about the changes and creating a sense of commitment.
Researchers are of the opinion that when nursing leaders will be able to adopt the
transformational leadership style effectively, they will have many advantages. They feel more
confident and comfortable while engaging in the development of healthcare policies. They can
mentor new graduate nurses, manage teamwork and the ever-changing components of healthcare
technology of the present generation (Weng et al., 2015).
One of the most important aspects of transformational leadership in nursing is the
intellectual stimulation attribute. Researchers have put forward many studies that have shown
how this attribute has become an exceptionally important aspect in the present healthcare centers.
(Scully, 2015). With the help of this skill, the nursing leader can facilitate as well as encourage
his or her nursing colleagues for developing critical thinking skills and problems solving skills.
This would help for effective diagnosis of the patients, linking the symptoms with
pathophysiology and thereby developing care plans for the patients. The leaders are also able to
develop creative as well as innovative approaches for tackling daily tasks or other situations that
arise on the healthcare fields. The nursing leaders should have the skills to encourage the nursing
professionals for putting forwards their ideas and suggestions and asking for feedbacks for
handling different situations more effectively. Herman, Gish and Rosenblun (2015) had indeed
supported this attribute of the nursing leaders as they have stated that such attribute helps in
promoting employee engagement as nurse feel that their suggestions are valued. They become
encouraged, as they feel accepted by the organization. This in turn increases their dedication
towards their work.