Positive Leader Strategies: Enhancing Nurse Communication Skills

This presentation delves into the application of positive leadership principles within a healthcare context, specifically focusing on strategies to enhance the productivity and wellbeing of nurses. The core argument revolves around the importance of effective communication as a key element of positive leadership. The presentation outlines how positive leaders can foster a culture of transparency and multi-level communication, promoting open dialog and team building. The presentation also highlights the role of communication in enhancing quality care, promoting wellness, and reducing stress among nurses. It emphasizes the use of interpersonal skills, such as empathy and active listening, and provides tips for effective staff communication. The presentation draws on various research papers to support the claims, with references provided at the end.

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
Positive Leader

one of characteristics of being a
positive leader
 One of characteristics of being a positive
leader is honesty and integrity. It is the
supreme quality of leadership. No real
success is possible for the positive
leaders without honesty and integrity.
Both honesty and integrity are the
ingredients make a person good leader.

Aim
One strategy which can be used by a
positive leader is to enhance the
productivity and wellbeing of the nurses is
promotion of multi-level communication.
The culture of the transparency should be
inspired within the organization. It enables
members of the several departments to
interact with each other whenever required
(Barry, and Wilkinson, 2016).

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 The positive leaders create the
expectations for the whole segment
concerning communication with each
other, patients, families and individuals of
other healthcare units. The leaders state
the anticipated cultural norms by
practising a role model of organizational
citizen behaviour by coaching, empathy
and staff engagement with the
mentorship (Zayas-Ortiz, et al. 2015).

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 The communication strategy has great
role in efficiency and goodness of the
employees. The strategies to be practised
by the positive leader for the enhanced
efficiency and wellbeing of the nurses
comprise different types of skill
development exercises (Aithal, and
Kumar, 2016).

Effective team communication
The nurses depend on the effective
communication to certify secure patient
care. The unrestricted communication
between management and nursing team
can enhance the staff reporting on the
patient matters, important events,
colleague frustration or apprehensions
(Cho, Diaz, and Chiaburu, 2017). No proper
communication among the staff can result
in anarchy, misperception, nervousness,
errors, incompetent systems and misused
resources.

Enhancement of quality care
The positive nurse leaders have great role
in the shaping the conditions to enable staff
to deliver the quality care. The nurses
possessing effective leadership and
communication skills positively influence to
the organizational citizenship behaviours of
the nursing team (Warner, et al. 2016). The
nurses have substantial influence over the
nurse leadership strategies in the form of
mentoring, consistent feedback and
openness to the new ideas.

Promotion of wellness
The nurses using effective communication
strategies has great role in both personal
and professional background. It helps in
reducing stress, encourage wellness and
enhance overall quality of the life (Gyekye,
and Haybatollahi, 2015). The exercises of
the communication strategy can be
challenging but it leads to strengthen the
chances of the success (Wang, et al. 2016).

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The nurses are required to employ
interpersonal skills like showing empathy,
listening, not interrupting, and being
conscious of the nonverbal cues and open
to attaining feedbacks (Rego, et al. 2019).
It is vivacious for the nurses to be conscious
not only of the words but the messages
behind the words and the ways in which
these are expressed (Walsh, et al. 2018).

Promotion of team building with
open dialog
The communication strategies to be
employed by the nursing leaders can
concentrate on constructing and
maintaining good working relationships
(Agarwal, 2016). It even facilitates to the
open and honest dialogs with the staff in
order to recognize and address team issues.

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The relationship constructing strategies has
role in forming environment where
employees feel comfortable in conveying
their ideas, confronting mistakes,
questioning regarding practices. The
employees can easily attain constructive
feedback and critiques in such type of
environment (Newman, et al. 2016).

Tips for communicating with staff
The interactions are significant in advancing
interpersonal relationships. The best way to
promote communication is by advancing
1:1 interaction. It is a simple and direct
method. The things should be conveyed
which have clear meaning (LePine, et al.
2016).