Positive Leadership: Skill Development for Nurse Productivity Module

This presentation delves into the concept of positive leadership and its application in enhancing the productivity and wellbeing of nurses. It highlights the importance of authentic leadership, leader-member exchange, and the role of intuition in effective decision-making. The presentation focuses on delegation and empowerment as key strategies for positive leaders to improve nurse productivity, emphasizing the significance of these practices in fostering team engagement and self-worth among team members. Skill development exercises, such as Mystery Diagnosis and Medical Charades, are introduced as practical methods for nurses to improve their diagnostic abilities, communication skills, and coordination within healthcare settings. The presentation concludes by underscoring the benefits of these exercises in training nurses in delegation and enhancing their overall performance in the healthcare profession. This student assignment is available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools for students.

LeadershipNAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR NOTE

Leader
 Leader refers to person who
influences people which helps
them in achieving goal.
 A leader leads by taking recourse
to example and he also
motivates other people in
following him

Meaning of Positive Leader
• A positive leader makes use of
scientific evidence along with the
principles for the promotion of
organisational outcome like the
positive emotions along with
energising network
• Positive leadership has been
found to have affirmative basis
and it helps in addressing the
impediments
Authentic Leadership in workplace
• Authentic leader practices values
that they preach that helps in
providing encouragement to the
other employees in an
organisation
• The integrity of the authentic
leader helps in empowering the
employees of an organization

Leader member Exchange
• Leader Member Exchange refers
to an approach that is based on
relationship which focuses on the
two-way relationship in between
leader and follower.
• It helps the leaders in developing
exchange with subordinates that
helps in influencing the
responsibility of the
subordinates.
Characteristics of Intuition of
Positive Leader
 Intuition acts as a significant
element of leader which offers
him help in taking the crucial
decisions
 Intuition of the leader assists him
for looking into the problems
which helps in the arena of that
of problem solving
 Intuitive skills of the leader
assists him in the understanding
the point of the view of that of
the others.

Strategy of Delegation of a positive
leader for improving productivity
 The strategy which positive
leader takes which helps him for
improving productivity of that of
the nurses is delegation along
with empowerment
 Delegation of the responsibilities
in the healthcare profession aids
leader for handling of the
multifarious duties pertaining to
the profession

Significance of Delegation and
Empowering
 Delegation of the leader plays a
crucial role for engagement of
team and it increases the self-
worth of members of team
 Delegation is responsible for
playing a significant role for
providing the encouragement to
that of the employees within a
company.

Delegation in nursing profession
 Delegation helps in the building
of the healthy interpersonal
relationships which helps a team
so that they can work together
 Nursing assistants think that
they are respected when they
delegate tasks which improves
performance of employees within
an organisation.

Skill Development Exercises for
Nurses for improving productivity
Mystery Diagnosis
 Group leader arranges for a
participant in the game for
playing the role of the nurse and
he carries out role play of
symptoms that are related with
that of the disorder.
 Nurse helps in relaying the
information when the patient is
not capable of speaking

 Doctor enters room and carries
out diagnoses of patient along
with recommending the course
of the treatment
 Activity promotes communication
in between doctor, patient and
nurses which teaches the art of
the delegation

Medical Charades
 Participants engaged in team
building exercise is responsible
for preparing the slips of paper
which has got medical terms.
 Each of the team should be
sending one of the
representative who then pulls out
the paper along with acting out
the items which has been listed
in the paper

 Team should be able to guess
action of the patient
 Game can be played untill all
the participants gets chance for
acting out the items until limit
has been achieved

Impact of Mystery Diagnosis
 Skill development exercise of
that of Mystery Diagnosis can
help the nurses for acting art of
the diagnosis along with gauging
condition of the patients
 Impact of Medical Charades
 Skill development exercise helps
nurses in training aspects of
delegation. The nurses learn the
art of co-ordination in that of
healthcare profession