Leadership in Nursing: Role of Organizations and Recommendations

This report provides a comprehensive overview of leadership in nursing, emphasizing its significance in delivering high-quality patient-centered care. It delves into the core competencies of leadership, highlighting the importance of empowering employees, building self-confidence, and fostering organizational growth. The report explores various leadership theories, particularly transformational leadership, and its application in nursing practice, referencing the contributions of Florence Nightingale as a prime example of an international healthcare leader. It analyzes how the nature and role of organizations influence leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors, and how these factors impact patient satisfaction and safety. The report concludes with practical recommendations for nurses to develop effective leadership skills, including adhering to policies, developing emotional intelligence, and cultivating professionalism. It underscores the critical role of leadership in shaping the skills, knowledge, and behavior of leaders, which ultimately reflects on the growth of the organization and the quality of patient care. The report incorporates relevant figures and references to support its findings.

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LEADERSHIP
 With the fast-growing business, leadership is
the most desired competencies in the
organizations.
 As discussed by Nichols (2016) suggested that
Leaders have great discipline of empowering
employees, improve self-confidence and self-
esteem of the employee.
 Leadership is the most crucial trait for bringing
faster growth. Figure: leadership
Source: ( Nichols 2016)

LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
 Leadership is a key skill for nurses in
order to provide the best patient-
cantered care.
 In Private Hospital ward, leaderships
traits are required to provide high
quality of care and bring faster growth
(Gnambs 2019).
 This will improve patient satisfaction,
promote the collaborative practice and
reduce the global burden of disease.
Figure: leadership In nursing
Source: (Gnambs 2019).

Leadership theories
 One of the best leadership styles that can
be implemented in the nursing graduates is
transformational leadership style
 The transformational leadership follows two
specific leadership such as Situational
Theory and Behavioural Theory.
 These two theories mostly influence
transformational leadership since leaders
inspire encourage and motivate workers to
create change that will help to grow
(Carleton, Barling and Trivisonno 2018).
Figure: leadership In nursing
Source: (Gnambs 2019).

International healthcare leaders
 The greatest example of international
healthcare leaders is Florence Nightingale
 in April 1853, she involved herself in the
activities which reflects the typical traits
of transformational leaders (Alisher et al.
2019).
 The activities of Florence Nightingale in
health care sectors provide nurses a
direction to provide safe and responsive
care to the patients by reflecting
empathy and empowering patients.
Figure: Florence Nightingale
Source: (Alisher et al. 2019)

Overview of role and nature of the organization
affects the leadership knowledge
 Role and nature of the organizations
limit the leadership knowledge of a
manager.
 Krylova, Vera and Crossan (2016)
suggested that in organizations that
lack the opportunity of training and
proper literacy and scope of the
leaders failed to establish the
identity in the business market and
failed to provide quality care to the
patients. Figure: Senior manager
Source: (Krylova, Vera and
Crossan 2016)

Overview of role and nature of the organization
affects the leadership skills
 Role and nature of the
organizations limit the
leadership skills of a senior
manager.
 The senior managers with a lack
of leadership skills failed to
involve themselves in planning,
organizing, staffing, leading,
and controlling (Ghasabeh,
Soosay and Reaiche 2015) .
Figure: Senior manager
Source: (Ghasabeh, Soosay and
Reaiche 2015) .

Overview of role and nature of the organization
affects the leadership behavior
 Role and nature of the organizations
limit the leadership behaviour of a
senior manager.
 The nature of the organizations and
role of the organizations hinder the
nurse managers to develop the skills
which will result in low patients
satisfactions, patient’s safety issues,
and low revenue (Ghasabeh, Soosay
and Reaiche 2015).
Figure: Senior manager
Source: (Ghasabeh, Soosay
and Reaiche 2015

Recommendations
 Follow procedures and
adhere to policies
 Commitment
 Be proactive (Cerne et al.
2017)
 Listen

Recommendations
 Development of Emotional
Intelligence
 Develop Integrity
 Develop Professionalism Figure: Nurse
Source: (Ghasabeh, Soosay and Reaiche 2015)

Conclusion
 In organisations plays an crucial role in shaping the skills, knowledge
and behaviour of leaders which further reflected in the growth of the
organisation. In nursing practice, , nurses are required to take decision
making, delegate properly and resolve conflict for providing the best
quality of care to the patients. Hence, in order to develop leadership
skills in nurse, they are required to follow procedures and adhere to
policies, develop Professionalism, communications, emotional
intelligence and critical thinking.

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