Leadership in Nursing: Skills, Theories, and Decision-Making Report

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of nursing leadership, emphasizing its critical role in enhancing healthcare service quality. It begins by defining nursing leadership and its impact on patient care, highlighting essential skills like analytical abilities, learning agility, and the capacity for effective decision-making. The report references the Dries and Pepermans Model, illustrating how skills such as strategic insight, adaptability, and drive contribute to leadership potential. The assignment then focuses on decision-making as a key leadership skill, providing strategies for improvement and underscoring the importance of rapid and informed choices in patient care. It explores situational and team leadership theories, offering insights into how leaders adapt to various situations and foster collaborative environments. The author reflects on personal growth, detailing how they enhanced their decision-making abilities through reading, interacting with professionals, and applying new strategies. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and adaptability in creating a positive impact on healthcare services and improving patient outcomes.

Exploring Nursing
Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Nursing leadership is refers to process by which agent inserts associate to behave in
certain designed manner. This may include influence, dynamic personality, goals, cleverness,
kindness and follower ship. This leadership is required to make care effective and improve the
services which are provided in healthcare. Nursing leadership develops communication and
strengths in particular person (André and et. al., 2016). This assignment will include the action to
improve specific skill and how it helps to improve healthcare services and experience of nurse
regarding the whole journey.
MAIN BODY
Nursing leadership is important aspect for the all nurses and care professionals. Every
practitioner needs skills and confidence to be able to give leadership to healthcare assistants.
Initiatives and policies mean nursing profession has the influence on every aspects of the
healthcare delivery. Leaders needs to able to create influence confidently and clearly. Leadership
skills can evolved organically, in case if they are applied more effectively has to be focused.
Nursing leadership is critical as it requires several skills which should be effective. Leaders has
some organised pattern for every action and that particular action should be performed well to
develop better nursing practice and that will help to service users (Backman and et. al., 2016).
Nursing leadership requires different abilities and skills, if any person met all the criteria then
that person is suitable for leadership. To become a good leader all the elements of leadership has
to be carry by the nursing leaders.
The Dries and Pepermans Model of leadership potential which mainly focus the
leadership skills such as analytical skills, learning agility, dive and emergent leadership.
Analytical skills includes strategic insight, problem solving, intellectual curiosity and decision
making. Learning agility involves adaptability, emotional intelligence and willingness to learn.
Drive includes dedication, perseverances and results orientation. And the emergent leadership
involves stakeholders sensitivity, self promotion and motivation to lead. All these skills are very

essential in nursing practice. Every nursing leader should possess such type of skills that makes
care and treatment more effective for users (Boswell, Opton and Owen, 2017). Nursing leaders
should possess ability of engagement, problem solving ability and the self rating in which staff
rates their own practice and this improve service of care. A good nursing leaders possess
analytical skills, in this every action must have some strategic insights. These are very important
to implement services in healthcare. Strategic insight is main aspect in such services, leader
should have some idea and strategies regarding every action which is taking place in this sector.
In this nurse has well strategic insight, learning agility that provides a good knowledge of every
action which is taking place for care improvement. Problems related to care and treatment has to
be focused for that nursing leaders can take feedbacks from visitors and patients so that it gives
idea of development (Cusack and et. al., 2016). This model is useful for nursing leaders like
mangers to recognise staff who has to be encouraged in order to take on the leadership
responsibilities. This model can be useful tool to assess self leadership ability and also
Action is innovation and knowledge which outlines that how nurses will develop or
improve new knowledge as well as continue to check impacts over next years on service. The
main of this action is to provide support nurses and how they can implement their knowledge to
make changes in patient care. In this skill which is chosen 'decision making'. This skill is
required and very important in this sector. Any nursing leader must possess effective thinking
and decision making ability. If leader will can think properly and according to situation it makes
clear for leader to act and make decision.
According to Myers- Briggs Type Indicator test results I was good with intellectual
curiosity and strategic insight as I lacked with problem solving and decision making. These two
qualities has to be in good nursing leader sometimes early decision making can create problem
with right and wrong decision. In nursing early decision is good practice but decision should be
appropriate if not it can impact on service users as well as organisation.
Goals: To promote use of the knowledge to influence practice and give information
about decisions as well as nursing actions.
Decision making: This is a part of analytical skill, every leader should have proper
decision making because good decision within a given period gives good results of care and
treatment (Day and et. al., 2017). As I am not so good with decision making, most times early
decision making can creates consequences for people. To implement decision making there are

some actions which can be taken place. Factors which are involved in the decision making which
assist in activities development related to communication, negotiation, conflict management and
planning that are inherent in leaders and this direct and support their practice because improper
use of this can affect quality of care.
Betterment of decision making: Informal behaviour of people who are living in local
area can misguide the treatment and care. Sometimes it is hard to difficult for professionals to
understand what patients want to explain so this can lead to mistreatment. Every patient has their
own need which has to be fulfil as they require (Grossman and Valiga, 2016). Understanding
health issues and then making decision for their health about treatment should be rapid because
sometimes patients can face major issues due to delay in treatment. Rapid and right decision is
need of every health organization. To provide good care well decision making is necessary to
improve this in case if patient are not able to communicate effectively in such cases health care
provides can interact with patient's family that will give clarity for individual's problems.
Nursing leader has to try to improve communication in staff so that they can explain patient in
easy language. According to contingency or situational theories there are some approaches which
helps to leaders to lead any decision on bases of situation. As the name of this theory implies that
nursing leadership depends on every person situation and every style of leadership is important.
Good leader can adopt own leadership to objectives or goals to complete. In this case goals are
like understanding needs of particular patient and motives which lead to implement condition. As
being nursing leadership I made sure that every staff has able to understand the specific needs
and requirements.
Multidisciplinary team always helps to make good decision, in certain cases it can be
complex to judge situation in that case multiple opinion of staff can help to take decision (Henry
and et. al.,, 2015). After taking every opinion I analysed each of those and this made easy for me
to take effective and rapid decision. Another theory is team leadership theory is interesting
approach that focus to explain leadership team trends which are growing where no member has
great power than the other but rather they work collectively to achieve outcomes and goals. In
case of emergency situation various team member can take also take lead to individual
nominated to be in charge.

To improve any kind of skill improvement needs willingness to learn and dedication
which was good in me that's why after making certain efforts to improve my decision making I
was able to improve all the skills which I was lacking and this took two and half months. All the
strategies and approaches which is explained above helped to better decision making. This action
improved services related to health care and this was beneficial for every patient.
During this journey I have learnt a lot of things which helped me to improve quality
which a leader should acquire. Implementation for the particular action I read different of books
and journals about leadership and skills which every leader should have to provide better
guidance and instruction. Interacting with different professionals and organization helped to
understand importance of multi-disciplinary team. Along with decision making I could able to
better my communication skills and how it differs from person in order to provide a good quality
of treatment so that they can improve their quality of life. It made me more adaptable to
situations as in healthcare critical conditions can be seen when any care professional is dealing
with particular patient. Solving problem more effectively is essential to improve all care. I was
able to solve problems with given time and this had positive impact on leadership quality.
Improvement of decision making increased my organising ability and emotional intelligence. In
some situation my team was low and demotivated that was affecting their practice so I arranged
some training for the staff which taught them how they can learn practice innovatively and
encouraging them helped all the time to improve their quality of care.
Any kind of skill if it needs improvement person has to face critical situation that can be
favourable or unfavourable. In case of nursing practice, every situation I faced during
implementation of my decision making was quite tough for me but I kept motivating myself to
accomplish all the goals so that it can give desired results. Great issue I faced was dealing with
peoples who were with informal behaviour, in this case I found that people were not comfortable
with healthcare so they were not able to make themselves comfortable in that environment to
improve that I ensured that staff who is providing care has to be more friendly and theme based
rooms can be provided so that they will be free to express their issues. At the end this gave
desired results people were able to talk about their problems and this improved the decision
making related to treatment within a period of time.
This action also helped me to develop emotional support which every patient seek during
treatment and care. This task made me realised importance of decision making in appropriate

time. Only making decision is not important it should be right for person so that it can have
positive impact on individual's health issues. This journey of improvement taught and improved
various other skills which are important to being nursing leader. Willingness to learn plays major
role to get knowledge about every little thing because any kind of information can not be
neglected in in health care services. As nursing practice is for people so that they can get
benefited for their particular health issues. Earlier solving problem was not easy for me but with
the experience of learning and improve the solving problem with effective intelligence. As
problems can have negative impact on patients as well as organization. People have more trust
and faith in health cares regarding treatment and care if professionals hurt them by breaking their
trust it can have major impact on health care organizations as well as on whole country.
During this I was able to lead a team with more confidence and boldness so that my staff
can be always motivated during nursing practice. Being a model for staff can improved the
quality of treatment and care for service users. This experience helped me to analyse situation
and what can be future impacts, to reduce future impacts effective decision making plays great
role for nursing leaders. All the skills of leadership helped me to become a good leader because a
good leader always followed. This experience had a great effect on my leadership quality,
improved quality of services and made them more effective so that people can get quality of life.
CONCLUSION
The above assignment is concluded that exploring nursing leadership is very important in
order to improve the quality of service for the recipients. According to the Dries and Pepermans
Model there are some skills which are required to being a leader such as analytical skills,
learning agility, drive and emergent leadership. As per results of Myers-Briggs indicator test
nursing leader is lacking with decision making which is very important in order to take right
decision. To improve this there are some strategies and approaches which are explained to
implement and improve the particular skill and along with that, this experience improved many
other skills and nursing leader acquired great experience in order to better decision making. It
also improved problem solving problem in the given time.

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