Opinion Editorial: Leadership Qualities in the Nursing Profession

This opinion editorial discusses the critical need for leadership qualities in the nursing profession. The author, drawing from personal experiences, highlights issues such as overwork, poor staffing practices, and inadequate interpersonal communication among senior nurses. The essay emphasizes the importance of ethical practices, patient dignity, and the need for improved nurse-patient ratios to ensure quality care. It argues for a focus on the common good, respect for human beings, and maintaining peace and security within healthcare settings. The author suggests improvements such as introducing attractive nursing courses and increased government support for nurse training to address these issues and improve patient outcomes. The essay concludes with a call for nurses to perform their duties ethically and references several relevant studies.

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Opinion Editorial
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The profession that can be selected for progressing in writing in this opinion editorial is the
nursing profession. This is one profession that is very important for the safety of the people’s
lives. However, there is an extreme requirement for the people in this profession to possess
immense leadership qualities. It has been seen that many senior people in this profession lack the
proper leadership qualities.
The need to motivate the patients and the junior staffs is immense because the patients lack that
much mental strength especially the ones who have been suffering from serious illnesses. The
interpersonal leadership quality has to be there for those people who are working at senior ranks
in this profession. In case the senior people in this profession lack the leadership qualities, the
hospitals provide poor services to the patients. Besides the poor services, the dignity of the
person is affected along with the common good of the people whom they are taking care of.
I have gathered some of those experiences in my personal life. Those experiences include the
fact that they have been victims of over workload and have not been able to perform their jobs
properly. The staffing practices have been very poor because of that. I had seen such an instance
when I was admitted in the hospital for a surgery. One of the senior nurses whom I was
acquainted with could not cope up with that much of overwork and she began to behave badly
with a patient. This had caused a bad impression on that person about the nurse. This belittled
her respect and her poor interpersonal communication was exposed badly.
I have seen many times that the medical personnel have been using derogatory and abusive
languages towards the families of the patients. The doctors and the nurses have not co-operated
with the patients and they have not heard the requests of the requests of the patients as well.
These issues that I have noticed in the nursing profession have helped me to concentrate on the

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attention to the practicing of the principles in the medical profession. Actually, the ethics of
nursing should be focused on delivering the best services to the mankind and they should always
be focused on serving the needs of the patients despite the position they are in. The human
dignity must be kept at the prime notice for the nurses and their practices when they are on duty.
Generally, there are three options in the nursing profession. One of the primary factors in the
nursing profession is doing the common good and preserving the human dignity. I suppose the
not only the nurses, but also all the people in the medical profession should be following the
guidelines. They should always respect the human beings and maintain the well-being of those
people. They should maintain decorum in the society as well. They should keep peace, stability
and security for all the patients in their workplace. I think this is of huge importance since the
lives of those helpless people depend on those nurses and doctors. These features must be
considered as a must for the nursing profession.
I would like to focus on another fact that the ratio between the patients and nurses is insane. This
must be reduced so that the nurses can be able to take proper care of the patients allocated to
them. The nurses should keep the medical places peaceful and sterile as much as they can. The
security of the patients is in their hands so they must provide the necessary medicines and
injections to the patients. The nursing profession is one of the most pure professions available in
the world. This is why they should be engaged in doing the common good for the people under
their care. The hospitals should be introducing the new nursing courses and make them attractive
to the girls so that more and more nurses can step in this profession. In Australia, the government
should be looking to put more effort in the training of the nurses so that the patients do not have
to face such kind of humiliation once again. The nurses should perform their duties ethically all
the time at their workplaces.

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