NSB104: Leadership Theories & Challenges in Future of Nursing Care

This presentation delves into leadership in nursing, focusing on transformational leadership theory and its application in person-centered care. It highlights the four components of transformational leadership: inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, and idealized influence, emphasizing their importance in nursing practice. The presentation also addresses key leadership challenges in the future of nursing, including socio-economic factors, multigenerational workforces, and the impact of technological advancements like health technology, digital health, and health informatics. It explores both the positive impacts and challenges associated with these technologies, such as privacy concerns, ethical considerations, and the potential for reduced patient-provider interaction. The presentation concludes by acknowledging the uncertain future of nursing and healthcare due to technological advancements, emphasizing the need for nurse leaders to navigate these challenges while maintaining quality patient care. Desklib provides access to similar presentations and study materials for students.

LEADERSHIP IN NURSING

Introduction
Leadership is the act of motivating and guiding a certain group of people towards
achieving their set objectives. Good leadership is when one sets the direction, builds and
provides an inspiring vision and end up creating a new thing. A good leader is the pacesetter in
every team.

Good leadership is essential in every sector including the healthcare. Good leadership
in management translates to a highly motivated group of employees hence better production.
For this reason, many scholars and researchers have performed studies to investigate
leadership. They have tried to break down leadership into various types and theories.

What Are Leadership Theories?
These are theories that try to give characteristics of a leader. They seek to explain why
a person might be a good leader and how to become one. They also help to identify what
behaviors a person can adopt in certain situations so as to improve his/her leadership abilities.

Examples Of Leadership Theories.
• These theories include big transformational leadership, style theory, breakthrough theory,
servant leadership among others.
• Today, the health sector demands leaders that inspire the entire population with the vision of
what can be accomplished. One of the leadership theories that go hand in hand with this is
the transformational leadership.

What Is Transformational Leadership?
This is leadership that inspires others to be the best forms of themselves. It urges
others to achieve amazing results. Transformational leaders are quiet leaders. They let their
work speak for themselves. Nurses should strive to be transformational leaders. Nurses thrive
under very strong leadership. The management affects the attitude of the nursing staff.

Characteristics Of Transformational Leaders?
They are:
• inspirational.
• good at conflict resolutions.
• Empathetic.
• Willing to make a sacrifice for others for the greater good. This is ideal for a person-centered care
• Confident.
• Providers of a safe environment for others.
• Advocators for change in the system whenever there is need.
• Maximizers of their fellow worker’s capabilities.

What Is Person-centered Care?
This is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social
services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets
their needs. Person-centered care givers are empathetic and selfless.(McComark et.al,2017)

Application Of The Four Components Of
Transformational Leadership In Nursing
• Inspirational motivation
A nurse leader should be an inspiration to other people. Their work should speak for
themselves. He/she should provide a vision and help other people achieve it. He/she should
aim at nurturing and motivate others to be better employees.

• Individualized consideration
A nurse leader should have empathy towards everyone. He/she should recognize other
people’s feelings, strengths, weaknesses and feelings. It is important to let other team members
and patients that they are also valuable in the facility center and that their contribution matters.
He/she should always provide a person centered service.

• Intellectual stimulation
A nurse leader should have the ability to encourage problem solving and critical
thinking among the nurse staff. This should be done by welcoming ideas and suggestions on
how to handle issues from the staff as often as possible. They should also be willing to teach
team members new things.

• Idealized influence
Nurse leaders are role models to others. He/she should not “preach water and drink
wine”. To be able to inspire others, one “should walk the talk”. A nurse leader follows the rules
and is supportive of the clinical procedures and policies. The leader is honest, dependable and
enthusiastic about nursing and patient care.