NURSING AND LEADERSHIP

Nursing and Leadership

Nursing and Leadership

Introduction

Nursing is the ultimate academic discipline and practice profession to have been shaped by women's leadership. Nurses have joined professional nursing associations having gained greater control of their professional future and to have developed a greater awareness of nursing issues. Professional nursing associations also assisted nurses to communicate to the public what nurses have done, and to have been active and informed members of the nursing profession. Belonging to a professional nursing organization may indicate dedication and commitment to professional growth.

Nursing faculty members strongly believed membership in the professional nurses association is another important social component for facilitating socialization of nurses into the nursing profession and for the development of leadership abilities in nurses. The development of leadership behaviors in nursing, such as accountability, responsibility, autonomy, empowerment, and professionalism have been important issues for both nurse educators and for nurses practicing in the clinical setting. The nursing environment within healthcare has increasingly become more technical, and complicated requiring nursing leaders to have increased knowledge and understanding of nursing theory and nursing issues (Baillie, 1989).

Discussion

Nursing and Leadership

Comparing leaders' identified leadership styles with nursing home quality signals may determine whether a relationship exists between leader teams and care quality. Nursing education leaders (current or future) who are prepared to take on these challenges will benefit from the knowledge of the practices that are able to aid them in being successful transformational leaders. Nursing Professional associations can cooperate identifying opportunities and presenting them to members. Nurses must accept individual responsibility for their own education, and get the ability to plan and manage strategically.

The nurse leaders also need business skills and interpersonal various sectors such as:

Resource management

Marketing skills and use of media

Strategic planning

Communication

Negotiation

Motivate others and influence them.

To be effective, today's nurse leader must understand the health ...