The Importance of Engaging Clinician Leaders and Managers Development

This essay examines the critical importance of engaging clinician leaders and managers in the nursing field, particularly within the complex healthcare and social care sectors. It emphasizes the multifaceted roles of registered nurses as leaders and managers, highlighting the need for broad knowledge, strong communication skills, critical thinking, and effective decision-making abilities to ensure quality patient care, team competence, and adherence to strategic directions. The essay underscores the significance of continuous education and training for nurses to adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment, especially in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), where specialized treatments and unique leadership qualities are increasingly in demand. It also discusses the influential role of nurse leaders in shaping healthcare policies, identifying barriers to access, and fostering effective leadership qualities for strategic development and models of care. The essay references various sources to support the arguments presented, illustrating the importance of strong leadership for nurses in the healthcare sector.

Essay

Topic: Why engaging clinician of leaders and managers development is
important ?
Management of nursing is considered as the most important and complex function in
health and social care sector. Here, to manage different functions like operational, risk
management, strategic planning, human-resource and more, nurses play an important role by
holding the position as leader and manager in clinical area (Till, McKimm and Swanwick,
2018). Therefore, to perform such role, registered nurses are required to possess broad
knowledge as well as good communication skills, for creating a culture of dignity and respect in
given field. Along with this, for analysing problems that occur on daily basis like mentoring the
staff workers to provide proper care to patients, keeping their health record and more, nurses
should also have powerful decision making and high critical thinking abilities (Nelson, 2018).
This would help in increasing team competence as well as confidence for improving
professionalism and encouraging motivation. Furthermore, nurse in health care sector, also play
critical role to ensure that if strategic direction has met or not. In this regard, within field of
operational nursing care, by having effective leadership capabilities, they help staff members to
safeguard patients and residents, via maintaining a team focus and developing enthusiasm for
undertaking such care (Dellve and et. al., 2018). Since under management, environment for both
leaders and manager is changing rapidly due to different situations, therefore, need for constant
nursing education and training is also become vital within health-care sectors. So, it is also
essential for nurses being as a manager or leader to develop more skills as per compassion vision
for organisation.
Due to increasing complex health or well-being needs of individuals that live in RACFs,
demand for competent clinical supervision by registered nurse (Dellve and et. al., 2018). In this
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regard, residents who require specialised treatments, prefer mostly such nurses that are capable
for managing their team by unique leadership qualities. According to Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (2016), it has evaluated that more than 50% of RACFs are suffered by
dementia, 80% from mental health related issues and near about 87% demand for high level of
care (Nelson, 2018). So, to fulfil such requirement, demand for highly qualified nurses are
increasing day by day within respective area.
In shaping health-care policies and setting up the care services, nurse leadership also
consider as a powerful source, where as a leader they can bring deep understanding as well as
understanding of healthcare sectors as per different role. Nurses also possess a broad knowledge
of social, political and economic force that help in shaping and accessing the health-care system
more efficiently (Till, McKimm and Swanwick, 2018). Being a leader or manager, they are
capable of identifying barriers that people may face in accessing the health facilities, in terms of
socio-economic and cultural. In Australia, the professional background gives nurses a strong
understand of their roles and relationship, in nursing management. It results in developing the
more effective leadership quality and capacity, for strategic development and models of care,
which require to deliver proper health-care.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Till, A., McKimm, J. and Swanwick, T., 2018. Twelve tips for integrating leadership
development into undergraduate medical education. Medical teacher. 40(12). pp.1214-
1220.
Nelson, M., 2018. Sustaining Lean in healthcare: developing and engaging physician leadership.
CRC Press.
Dellve, L. and et. al., 2018. Health care clinicians' engagement in organizational redesign of care
processes: The importance of work and organizational conditions. Applied
ergonomics. 68. pp.249-257.
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