400235 Leadership in Clinical Practice: Feedback Analysis

This report examines leadership styles in clinical practice, focusing on two key approaches: autocratic and democratic leadership. The analysis begins by defining autocratic leadership, where a leader makes decisions independently, and illustrates its application in a scenario where a nurse, Kate, quickly responds to a patient collapse, highlighting the strengths of decisive action in crisis situations. The report also acknowledges the limitations of this style, such as potential dependency and lack of trust. Conversely, the report discusses democratic leadership, also known as participative leadership, where decisions are made after considering input from multiple sources. This is exemplified through a nursing manager's approach to address staff lateness. The strengths of this style, including fostering trust and collaboration, are contrasted with its weaknesses, such as being time-consuming. The report concludes by offering constructive feedback and recommendations for both leadership styles to improve their effectiveness in the clinical setting. The report uses references to support the analysis of each leadership style.

Running head: LEADERSHIP IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
LETTER FOR CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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To whom it may concern,
This letter intends to examine the leadership style and provide constructive feedback.
An Autocratic leadership style is the one where a leader makes a clear decision
individually based on their ideas or judgement. Generally, this leadership style makes a
strategic decision and leader act responsible along with taking full power for making any
clinical decisions. Kate has used this leadership style in her practice. Kate was
communicating with Leone and suddenly found that a woman has just collapsed. According
to Kibbe (2019), autocratic leadership can make a decision very quickly and can manage the
situation even in the stressed or emergent environment. In addition to this, the leaders belong
from this category can command any instruction very clearly for efficient direction.
Therefore, Kate has done the same. She was clear with the direction and command as she
directed the patient along with her colleagues Leone and Jasmine. I also show tribute towards
Kate for immediate action towards delivering her duties. The major strength of autocratic
leadership style is it enhances the overall communication within a scenario or any given
situation, effective in handling any crisis or emergent situation, reduce or manage the stress
among peers or employees and thus, enhancing the productivity of team or organisation (De
Hoogh, Greer & Den Hartog, 2015). However, there are few limitations or drawback of this
leadership style, such as it creates dependency. Workers or staffs would rely on the leader
forever task or duties as this style of leaders would always lead and provides commands.
Another drawback is a lack of trust; this type of leaders directs, which means they do not hold
their staff accountable (Dyczkowska, 2018). Kate has done her job appropriately with this
leadership style. The major area of improvement for the nurse was to allow opinion from her
peer and co-worker. Besides, she should also communicate effectively with a detailed
explanation of the incidence.

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A Democratic leadership style is also referred to as participative leadership. Also,
most often known as shared leadership. This type of leadership generally takes necessary
consideration from multiple sources and then come into the conclusion. Leone was facing the
issue of people coming late to shift, and that makes her leave the shift very late. She
discussed with Kate before approaching anyone, and thus, she used democratic leadership.
The nursing manager has also used a democratic leadership style. According to McKeown &
Carey (2015), democratic leadership would allow multiple inputs, discuss openly considering
every member of the team and decide accordingly. Thus, the nursing manager has also done
the same by taking feedback from Kate and Leone and planned to conduct a meeting for
effective optimal decision. The strength of the democratic leadership style is connecting
multiple individuals for an optimal outcome or decision and thus, promote efficient flows of
ideas or opinions (Khan et al., 2015). Another strength of this leadership style is building
trust and respecting each other as this leadership style involve more priority to the value
along with morale. Therefore, this leadership style could make an effective decision as there
would be a diverse number or sets of ideas. Hence, making the entire team member more
productive and enhance their strength. The weakness of this leadership style is time-
consuming as it involves survey, feedback, and opinions and thus, lose valuable time.
Another limitation is during the crisis, and this leadership style would not meet the optimal
outcome (Cunningham, Salomone & Wielgus, 2015). The major area of improvement for the
nursing manager was taking a long time for deciding against the problem raised in the
situation. The process of meeting and feedback from multiple settings would indulge more
time. I declared both the leadership style used in both the scenario.
Sincerely,
(TYPE YOUR NAME)

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