Leadership in Nursing: Skills, Theories and International Healthcare

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of leadership in nursing, defining leadership and exploring crucial characteristics such as effective communication, passion, positivity, innovation, and collaboration. It delves into transformational leadership, including situational and behavioral theories, and discusses how nurses can become effective leaders by developing communication skills, relationships with employees, and understanding employee strengths and weaknesses. The presentation emphasizes the importance of leadership in shaping nurses' skills and behaviors, particularly in decision-making, delegation, and conflict resolution to provide the best quality of care. It highlights the role of effective leadership in various healthcare settings, including private hospitals, to improve patient satisfaction and reduce the global burden of disease. The presentation also references Florence Nightingale's contributions to nursing leadership and explores the impact of organizational structures on leadership capabilities.

LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
Leadership can be defined as the ability to influence the
behavior of a mass in order to achieve a common goal.
Some of the most crucial characteristics of a good leader
are a follows:
1. Effective Communication
2. Passion and commitment
3. Positivity
4. Innovation
5. Collaboration
LEADERSHIP AND NURSING
• Effective leadership is crucial in every work environments, and specially
in those that includes high pressure scenarios along with quick decision
making.
• Considering the fact that leadership has the potential to encourage
nurses to function as a team units, it can be clearly understood that
leadership is highly crucial. 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.
• This will improve patient satisfaction, promote the collaborative
practice and reduce the global burden of disease.
INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE
LEADER
Florence Nightingale
• Florence Nightingale established nursing as a respected profession
within a 2 year period during the period of healthcare crisis, along with
invented the hospital as we know it today.
• 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
LEADERSHIP THEORIES
• Developing effective communication skills
• Developing effective relationship with the employees
(Ghasabeh, Soosay and Reaiche 2015)
• Understanding the strengths as well as weaknesses of
each of the employees
• Navigating the organizational culture
IMPACT OF ORGANIZATION ON
LEADERSHIP
• Role and nature of the organizations limit the leadership skills of a
manager.
• Organizations that provides the leaders to practice their leadership
techniques flourishes in a better way compared to organizations that
restricts the same (AliSher et al. 2019).
• Healthcare homes that ensure regular training to both the employees
as well as the leaders and periodic monitoring of the same, evidence
better leadership facilities (Carleton, Barling and Trivisonno 2018).
HOW CAN WE BECOME EFFECTIVE
NURSING LEADERS?
CONCLUSIONS
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.
• 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 encourage, inspire as well as motivate workers to innovate as
well as create change that will help grow and shape the future success
of the company (Carleton, Barling and Trivisonno 2018).
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