NUR302 Group Presentation: Leadership Qualities in Nursing Practice

This assignment is a presentation focusing on nursing leadership and the critical appraisal of leadership qualities within the context of clinical practice. The presentation, prepared by a group of students for the NUR302 course, examines the role of leadership in empowering nurses, improving job efficiency, and integrating patient care. The core emphasis is on the leadership quality of adaptability, highlighting its importance in responding to the needs of the nursing team, patients, and the evolving evidence-based practices. The presentation further analyzes how adaptability manifests in problem-solving, decision-making, and understanding the perspectives of individual nurses to promote a positive organizational culture. References from Ingvarsson, Verho & Rosengren (2019) and Van Dam and Ford (2019) are included to support the analysis. This presentation was created for a group oral presentation, following the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, and is a valuable resource for students studying nursing leadership.

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Role of leadership in nursing practice
Empowering the rights and positions of the nurses in the community settings and in
the healthcare organisation is a critical function of the nursing leader and the role of the
nursing leader is also to supervise and better the job efficiency of the nurses in a day to day
workplace scenario (Ingvarsson, Verho & Rosengren, 2019). The nursing leader oversees the
patient care integration that includes the treatment plans development, evaluation and
collection of intervention findings and collaborating with the other patient care teams.
Leadership quality of adaptability
Adapting to the needs of the nursing team, to the needs of the organisation, to the
needs of the patients and their families and to needs of the evidence based practice change –
must be seen as a quality in every nursing leader and the quality chiefly means to conform to
the needs of the situation.
Critically analysis of leadership quality of adaptability in nursing practice
The leadership in nursing profession is about taking responsibility about the roles and
functioning of the other nurses and a nursing leader should also take ownership of his or her
role as leader, under critical and challenging circumstances. Adapting to the needs of the
situation – whether it is patient care or family centred care nursing care or a legal issue that
has arisen for example in the intensive care unit concerning withdrawing of life support – the
nursing leader must be able to conform to the needs of the situation by solving the pertinent
issues and incorporating a strength based practice change in the scenario (Van Dam and Ford,
2019). Problem solving and apt decision making with a quick turnaround time is a leadership
quality of adaptability, in nursing practice. A nursing leader, as mentioned before always
works towards the needs and empowerment of the individual nurses and towards a nursing
team as a collective unit is important and thus the cognitive flexibility to understand the

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perspective of every nursing professional about an adverse clinical scenario which may have
occurred in the clinical environment, is important again. Understanding the perspective of
every nurse and then conforming to the needs of the situation is vital, so that organisational
and the nursing culture is only promoted in the process and not hindered.

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References
Ingvarsson, E., Verho, J., & Rosengren, K. (2019). Managing Uncertainty in Nursing-Newly
Gradu-ated Nurses’ Experiences of Introduction to the Nursing Profession. International
Archives of Nursing and Health Care, 5, 119.
Van Dam, P.J. and Ford, K.M., 2019. Nursing leadership learning in practice: A four stage
learning process. International Archives of Nursing and Health Care, 5(3), pp.1-8.