Nursing Leadership Report: Patient Safety and Workplace Violence

This report critically evaluates concepts and skills relevant to effective nursing leadership, focusing on optimizing patient safety and fostering a healthy workplace. It addresses workplace violence, particularly in emergency departments, and proposes dynamic leadership styles to enhance team communication and decision-making. The report outlines clinical leadership expectations for new graduate nurses, emphasizing emotional intelligence, integrity, and communication skills, along with ethical and legal boundaries. It highlights the importance of knowledge, evidence-based practices, communication, and networking as supportive elements of effective leadership, referencing contemporary research and policies. The report emphasizes face-to-face communication for direct feedback and team engagement, concluding that effective leadership enables clear communication, encourages teamwork, and promotes patient safety and organizational health. References to key research papers are included to support the findings.

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Introduction
◦ This report critically evaluates concepts and skills relevant to effective leadership
aimed at optimizing patient safety and a healthy workplace.
◦ It also explains clinical leadership expectations for beginning new graduate nurses
including the scope of practice and legal and ethical boundaries.
◦ It discuses the use of knowledge, evidence, communication, and networks as
supportive elements of effective leadership.
◦ NSW health minister, Jillian Skinner has issued the 12 point action plan due to
declining the workforce violence issue form the working place and increasing the
security.

Critically reflect upon concepts and skills relevant to
effective leadership aimed at optimizing patient
safety and a healthy workplace
◦ The main problem of this study is to evaluate the workplace violence towards
nurses. The workplace occupational violence is determined as physical abuse which
could create the threat of employee health safety at the working place (Peters-
Hawkins, et al., 2018).
◦ This problem could create conflict among employee for meeting the aim of the
organization (Regan, et al., 2016).
◦ In addition, it can also be stated that this issue could increase the frustration
among employee that would mandate the employee to conduct bad behavior with
patients (Finkelman, 2017).
◦ UP to 90% of staff who are worked in the emergency departments have
experienced violence in their profession as it is higher incident in this department.

Continued…
◦ In this, a dynamic leadership style could be used by an individual due to increasing
patient safety at the working place. This method could enable to the teammates to
freely share their solution in the team and enables them to conduct effective
decision.
◦ It is addressed that effective leadership provides a path to an individual to
complete their desire acts ineffective way and get higher competitive advantages
(Herman, et al., 2015).

Explain clinical leadership expectations for
beginning new graduate nurses including the
scope of practice and legal and ethical
boundaries
◦ It is also founded that there are a certain skills which is essential for new nursing
graduates named as
◦ emotional intelligence,
◦ integrity,
◦ critical thinking,
◦ communication skills,
◦ and respect (Scully, 2015).

Continued…
◦ As new nursing graduates, I was accountable for the critically review the
organizational issue and make higher competitive advantages. I directly
communicate with the employee who is working in the team due to mitigating their
issues and make enable the people to conduct suitable behavior.
◦ Effective communication will be imperative in mitigating the conflict issue, which
would directly be affecting the productivity of the firm. The acts could be associated
with the life age of patients, patient’s health, and patient safety (Grossman and
Valiga, 2016).
◦ ) I used the ethical norms by which I was liable to conduct suitable behavior with
the patients. I was also liable for their safety. It could be supported to me get
positive responses towards the study outcome.

Explain the use of knowledge, evidence, communication,
and networks as supportive elements of effective
leadership
◦ I used many contemporary research policies that supported to make an effective
presentation in favour of particular concern named as
◦ communication,
◦ effective networking,
◦ and effective leadership styles (Tyczkowski, et al., 2015).

Continued…
◦ The communication skills are imperative for the leader as it allows to make suitable
behavior with others and facilitates to achieve a reliable result. Communication is a
way that might enable an individual to make a network and meet their task at a
limited cost (Cherry & Jacob, 2016).
◦ The main aim of this presentation is aware the people about workplace violence in
the nursing department and suggested the ways by which these issues could be
eliminated from the working place (Yoder-Wise, 2014).
◦ From this, an individual would be able to encourage the teammates to conduct an
effective approach that could be effective in improving the quality of services. It
would also support to increase the health safety of the firm (Ross, et al., 2014).

Continued
◦ I used face to a face communication tool that provides an opportunity to me for
directly meeting with the employee who is part of the team and capable to get
direct feedback to them about me. It would also an effective way to cover the huge
number of people at the same time.
◦ It can also be said that the face to face method gives an effective path to me to
comprehend the opinion and views of others towards the topic along with
facilitating to me inspire other in an effective manner. It is also founded that this
method will allow me to make effective leadership in the working place.

Conclusion
◦ With respect to the above discussion, it can be summarized that effective
leadership style could enable an individual to effectively converse with employees
and encourage them to achieve the organizational task.
◦ It is also founded that an individual could influence the huge number of people in
less time and resource by considering the effective communication tool. It would
also enable to get the reliable and valid result in the favour study.

References
◦ Cherry, B., & Jacob, S. R. (2016). Contemporary nursing: Issues, trends, & management. Elsevier Health Sciences.
◦ Finkelman, A., 2017. Professional nursing concepts: Competencies for quality leadership. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
◦ Grossman, S. and Valiga, T.M., 2016. The new leadership challenge: Creating the future of nursing. FA Davis.
◦ Herman, S., Gish, M. and Rosenblum, R., 2015. Effects of nursing position on transformational leadership practices. JONA: The
Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(2), pp.113-119.
◦ Peters-Hawkins, A.L., Reed, L.C. and Kingsberry, F., 2018. Dynamic leadership succession: Strengthening urban principal
succession planning. Urban Education, 53(1), pp.26-54.
◦ Regan, S., Laschinger, H.K. and Wong, C.A., 2016. The influence of empowerment, authentic leadership, and professional
practice environments on nurses’ perceived interprofessional collaboration. Journal of nursing management, 24(1), pp.E54-
E61.
◦ Ross, E.J., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Click, E.R., Krouse, H.J. and Clavelle, J.T., 2014. Transformational leadership practices of nurse leaders
in professional nursing associations. Journal of Nursing Administration, 44(4), pp.201-206.
◦ Scully, N.J., 2015. Leadership in nursing: The importance of recognising inherent values and attributes to secure a positive
future for the profession. Collegian, 22(4), pp.439-444.
◦ Tyczkowski, B., Vandenhouten, C., Reilly, J., Bansal, G., Kubsch, S.M. and Jakkola, R., 2015. Emotional intelligence (EI) and
nursing leadership styles among nurse managers. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 39(2), pp.172-180.
◦ Yoder-Wise, P. S. (2014). Leading and managing in nursing-E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences.