Report on Organizational Culture and Nursing Leadership Challenges

This report investigates the challenges faced by nursing leaders within the healthcare environment, focusing on the impact of organizational culture. It identifies cultural, ethical, and managerial issues that impede effective leadership in nursing. The report discusses how cultural differences and lack of cultural competence can affect patient satisfaction, ethical dilemmas, and the importance of ethical leadership. It also explores the impact of poor organizational structures and staffing issues. The report highlights the need for nurses to be prepared to address these challenges to enhance their leadership capabilities and improve patient care. The report provides references to relevant literature to support the findings.

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Nursing as a profession needs skills that will let them work in a team and manage tasks
during medical emergencies. Leadership skills are an essential requirement in an efficient
nursing practice. However, certain factors can lead to the leaders in nursing feel powerless.
The major barriers that are found in an organizational culture, which leads to issues in
nursing leadership is cultural, ethical and managerial problems (Barkhordari-Sharifabad,
Ashktorab & Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, 2017). The cultural problems are the communication issues
and cultural beliefs that hinders the practice when dealing with patients. One of the aspects of
cultural problem is cultural competence that affects the satisfaction of patients when they find
their healthcare providers are from a different culture. The ethical problems are related to the
ethical distress, difference in moral grounds and when the ethical principles are not followed.
The basic principle of ethics in nursing is related to maximum benefit of the patient but when a
nurse is not obliging by that, it can obstruct the leadership of the nurse who is managing them.
Ethical leadership in a clinical setting varies from nurses to nurses and if they lack the power to
maintain a decorum then they can feel powerless. Managerial issues are when there is no sync in
the organizational structure and when the staffing is not adequate or capable enough to look after
a critical situation. The leader is unable to work with the team when they are not cooperative or
lack in discipline (Elliott et al., 2016).
Nurses should be prepared for such situations in their practice as it can affect their
leadership qualities and act as a barrier.

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References
Barkhordari-Sharifabad, M., Ashktorab, T., & Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, F. (2017). Obstacles and
problems of ethical leadership from the perspective of nursing leaders: a qualitative
content analysis. Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 10.
Elliott, N., Begley, C., Sheaf, G., & Higgins, A. (2016). Barriers and enablers to advanced
practitioners’ ability to enact their leadership role: A scoping review. International
Journal of Nursing Studies, 60, 24-45.