Impact of Nursing Leadership on Healthcare Professionals Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of nursing leadership within the healthcare system. It begins by defining nursing leadership and its importance in improving quality care and empowering healthcare professionals. The report explores the adherence of various professionals, including nurses, pharmacists, and educators, to nursing leadership guidelines, emphasizing the use of transformational leadership. It examines research supporting the adoption of these guidelines, highlighting clinical practice as a primary evidence source. The report also delves into the nine principles of nursing leadership, emphasizing their role in patient-centered care and positive outcomes. Furthermore, it discusses the use of nursing leadership by healthcare professionals, focusing on the importance of effective leadership styles, particularly transformational leadership, in improving patient outcomes and reducing errors. The report concludes by emphasizing the critical role of nursing leadership in modern healthcare and the need for strong leadership skills among healthcare staff. The document is contributed by a student to be published on the website Desklib.

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Table of Contents
Introduction to the guideline......................................................................................................2
Discussion of the adherence of healthcare professionals to this guideline................................3
Research used to adopt the guideline.........................................................................................3
Evidence used to define the guideline........................................................................................4
Use of nursing leadership by healthcare professionals..............................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
Reference....................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction to the guideline
Nursing leadership is defined as the influence of a leader in the quality care
improvement associated with the direct participation of every healthcare professional in
clinical care. The primary function of leadership in nursing is to include an environment,
which has a clear vision and where the staffs are empowered and motivated (Ha & Pepin,
2018). The healthcare system associated with nursing leadership is a hospital setting. This
system includes the use of transformational leadership in nursing in order to empower all the
employees of the healthcare setting. Nursing leaders are defined as agents who have
followers inside the healthcare team. Nursing leadership is about having an empowering
vision of the al the healthcare staffs in their role of clinical practice. Nurse leaders must also
have skills such as valuing others, self-confidence and effective building of teams. Nurses in
a healthcare system require consistent, strong and knowledgeable leaders who are visibly
inspiring than others in supporting the nursing professional practice. The primary attributes of
a nurse as a leader include being an advocate for quality care, an articulate communicator, a
collaborator, a risk-taker, a mentor and a role model as a visionary (Fischer, 2016). Effective
leadership of the healthcare professionals has been found critical for quality strengthening
and integration of care. Various research studies have been performed on nursing leadership
which talks about the nursing leadership as a primary guideline for the improvement in
quality care of patients. According to the US nursing leadership guidelines, there are nine
principles, which are followed by every nurse leader. These principles include commitment
towards excellence, measuring important things, building a culture, creating and developing
leaders, focusing on employee satisfaction, building individual accountability, aligning
behavior goals with the values, all level communication and recognizing success.

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Discussion of the adherence of healthcare professionals to this guideline
Every healthcare professional staring from nurses, followed by pharmacists,
technicians, nurse educators and CFOs are held to this guideline. First comes the nurses, in
the list of adherence to nursing leadership. A nurse shows leadership by admiring as role
models, being courageous at certain critical situations, earning their status as role models and
empowering all the nursing staffs who are under the supervision of a leader nurse. The
pharmacists are also held under the nursing leadership guideline. Nurse and pharmacists
including all the professionals of the multidisciplinary team need to perform their working
process together in order to improve the outcomes of the patient and help the patients in
getting their medicines at correct times (Cable & Graham, 2018). Thus, it can be stated that
pharmacists are also held under the nursing leadership guideline required to improve the
quality care of the patients. This factor associated with pharmacy has been found to be
discussed in another research paper. Nurse educators have also been found to help under the
guidelines of nursing leadership. This practice has been found to help the nurse educators
teaching process and empowering the nurse students. Thus, it can be stated that all healthcare
professionals are associated with the guidelines of nursing leadership.
Research used to adopt the guideline
According to Jack, (2019) there are various robust empirical pieces of evidence which
supports the conclusion of infant immunization associated with measles, rubella, mumps and
other vaccinations. Nursing leadership has been found to be very much effective in
understanding the values and beliefs towards vaccination. This guideline helps the individual
nurses in taking important decisions associated with vaccination. Primary community
healthcare has also been found to be improved in quality by the use of nursing leadership
guidelines. In another research performed by Hafsteinsdóttir et al., (2017) nursing leadership
is an essential guide for nursing research and clinical practice in various countries.

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Leadership and mentoring on research productivity and improvement of quality care have
been found to play a major role in clinical practice. According to the guidelines, leadership
knowledge and skills have been found to play a major role in maintaining healthy staff
relationships, work cultures and quality care of the patients inside a specific healthcare
setting. These are the overall research pieces of evidence, which are associated with nursing
leadership guidelines.
Evidence used to define the guideline
Clinical practice is the most important evidence, which is used to define the nursing
leadership guidelines. Nursing leadership plays an essential role in motivating and
empowering the staff nurses in order to give their best while providing palliative care and
quality care to the patients. This is the most significant evidence, which can be used to define
the guidelines associated with nursing leadership. Nursing leaders are defined as agents who
have followers inside the healthcare team. Nursing leadership is about having an empowering
vision of the al the healthcare staffs in their role of clinical practice. Nurse leaders must also
have skills such as valuing others, self-confidence and effective building of teams. These are
the overall pieces of evidence which are used to define the guidelines selected for the chosen
guideline topic.

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Determine the level of evidence used in the EBP identified
The level of evidence in the evidence-based practice identified is optimum, which is
the reason for the guideline to be used in practice. It improves effectiveness as a leader that is
the most important requirement for the idea of nursing leadership practice. The nine
principles identified in this guideline is designed according to the skills required for patient-
centred care and positive patient outcome (Aarons, Ehrhart, Farahnak & Sklar, 2014).
The first guideline commits to excellence in the nursing profession that ensures
passion and purpose for the actions needed. It requires the nurse to be committed and have
the feeling of perseverance in all the implementations taking place according to their clinical
reasoning and critical thinking. It trains the medical professional to be efficient in their
working so that they have the ability to face all obstructions that are occurring between their
profession and their personal limitations. Eradicating challenges that are tough to handle and
performing in excellence to achieve success in handling patients and medical emergencies. It
is essential to reflect and evaluate our thoughts before taking any action or making new plans
in the field of nursing. The second guideline is to measure the important things such as
patient service and satisfaction, quality of care, people whom we are looking up to in the
professional front, growth of the department in skills and knowledge, and financial gains that
are essential for the development and wellbeing of the healthcare organization. The third
point in the guideline is building a culture around service that enables a medical professional
to be appreciative of the patient party as a customer and they should be treated with the same
kindness and gratitude (Melnyk, Gallagher‐Ford, Long & Fineout‐Overholt, 2014). The
nurses should greet and welcome the family members of the patient with respect to an
attitude of modesty and humbleness. The fourth guideline is creating and developing leaders
that ensure a leader to train and guide their employees in such a way that they do not require
the supervision of a leader when an emergency occurs, which means that the team should be

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trained efficiently. The fifth guideline is focusing on employee satisfaction as this is for the
perspective of a nursing leader who is the in charge of all the operations and work processes
taking place in the healthcare organization. The satisfaction of the employee who is working
for the wellbeing of the patient should be treated in a healthy manner so they feel motivated
and work accurately for the benefit of the patients. The sixth guideline is building individual
accountability so that people are responsible for the actions they are taking, which will ensure
competitiveness and can have the opportunity to grow in a professional aspect. The seventh
guideline is aligning behaviors with goals and values that enables a medical professional to
set behavioral standards that come in relation to the organization's mission, values and
standards. The standards set should be utilized to enhance the performance of nurses in
teamwork and also individually (Stetler, Ritchie, Rycroft‐Malone & Charns, 2014). The 8th
guideline is to communicate in all levels that suggest a leader in the nursing profession
communicate with people of every department in a medical organization so that it ensures
efficiency and accuracy in working so that it increases interdisciplinary skills. It includes
involving senior leaders, support service and physician staff. The last guideline is recognizing
and rewarding success because giving a token of appreciation and rewards to employees
motivates them to work for the betterment and it is essential in a medical field. The evidence
level of this evidence-based practice guideline is accurate and efficient for the enhancement
of leadership skills in nurses (Reichenpfader, Carlfjord & Nilsen, 2015).
Use of nursing leadership by healthcare professionals
In this modern-day, the management and leadership skills of the healthcare staff
members are crucial for improving the quality and integration of care. There are several
members involved in the healthcare system – doctors, patients, nursing members and others.
They have very critical but independent duties. In a healthcare system, arousal of challenges
is a common thing, and it does not have any easy or single solution. Leaders who may want

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to guide others in a proper direction can face several challenges in this kind of challenge full
of setting. What is required is a kind of leadership that allows everybody to work with others
as full partners in a situation of mutual esteem and teamwork. This kind of leadership style is
related to better patient health outcomes and a decrease in medical errors, and less staff
turnover (Sfantou et al., 2017).
There are several kinds of leadership styles but the most effective one is the
transformational leadership, which is described by developing strong bonds and motivating
among staff members. The transformational leaders generally have the skills to stimulate self-
confidence, staff respect and they interconnect with a shared vision, as a result, it increases
productivity, improves the morale of the employees, and job satisfaction.
In the last decade, the studies regarding effective leadership in the healthcare system
have been extensively studied in the literature. There are many societal difficulties which
have shown that there is an urgent requirement of effective leadership styles in health and
social services. In most of the studies, the association of leadership with quality care and a
variety of patient health results were stressed on. Thus, leadership is measured as an
important factor for a well-coordinated and integrated provision of care, both from the
patients and healthcare professionals (Sfantou et al., 2017).
For the contribution of patient safety and quality of care, it is highly necessary for the
nurses to show strong leadership skill. For them to become a more effective leader and proper
collaborators it is necessary that the nurses have two crucial competencies - a regular skill
which can act as the pillar for any leadership opportunity and a more precise skill that is
made for a particular context, time, and place (Institute of Medicine, 2011).
Thus, for the nurses to become effective leaders or if they need to incorporate their
leadership skills in the healthcare system, they should undergo leadership programs;

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mentorship; and participate in the decision-making procedures, as well as political
engagement (Institute of Medicine, 2011).
Conclusion
Thus, it can be concluded that there are various leadership styles and all of them have
an important role in improving the quality of care and nursing. The effect of the outcomes
related to the health varies depending on the type of leadership skill, as they can either
broaden or close the available gap in healthcare. Effective and better leadership skill on the
part of nurses, doctors and others will be needed to develop and incorporate the modifications
important to enhance quality, accessibility, and value and deliver patient-centred care. For
this to be successful it is necessary for all the nurses, doctors, students, to the bedside and
community nurses and to the researchers of the healthcare system to develop leadership
competencies and act as full partners with other healthcare experts in efforts to promote the
healthcare system and the delivery of care.

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