Critique on Transformational Leadership in Nursing Education



Critique on Transformational Leadership in Nursing Education

Introduction

Transformational leader has a wide-ranging vision and significantly he is able to control, influence and inspire the supporters efficiently. Such leader is ready to take responsibility to make his staff involve in decision making process. A transformational leader remains intact with his followers and knows their strength, weakness and also addresses their issues in term of working conditions and their job satisfaction level. Transformational leader use to deploy visionary approach of leadership that instigates the followers to become enthusiastic in their job related tasks and solve problems creatively.

The nursing leaders support in providing quality care, safety of patients, and staff job satisfaction. Strong leadership is essential because the complex healthcare management system requires a good leader who can connect the world of healthcare management to the medical practice, while realizing people's needs and developing the broad health service programs required by them. Leadership is the usage of strong influence to shape healthcare organization's goals, to motivate behavior towards achieving these goals, and to make organizational culture. The effective leadership is the one who supports in accomplishing the main tasks in healthcare management (Sellgren, Ekvall, & Tomson, 2007).

Discussion

Purpose of Article

The article written by “JOAN TROFINO” on topic “Transformational Leadership in Health care” focused on appealing and engaging followers to higher principal and moral values. According to that article, transformational leadership means that leader make modification in organization's vision and strategy to develop leadership behavior and culture of innovation that in turn brings higher moral values in followers. They proposed methods and techniques that develop innovative culture for nursing education. The main focused remained on benefits of participative management in health care organization. Transformational leaders are able to generate a culture where staff used to exchange valuable information.

The nursing leaders play an important role in supporting nurses and for improving health care environments. Nursing Leaders can help in making a satisfying organizational culture by motivating their staff, enhancing their morale, and performance of their junior groups. Nursing leaders have multiple roles in the society as well as in the integration of advanced nursing practice in healthcare settings. This integration is a continuous process, which involves communication, management of staff and their system. They provide support to individuals and create networks with physicians and other members of the healthcare system (Marquis, & Huston, 2009).

They focused on various programs for innovations in health education, but these are only relevant to Arizona State University College of Nursing & Healthcare. They do not focus on broad perspective of nursing education that can be implemented in every nursing institute. The tried to provide the good examples of the programs, some aspects seems impractical for implementation in nursing education.

In my views, transformational leadership style remained successful in meeting demands of complex decision making. In these demanding times, professional practice models are changing with every new innovation in the field of health care which make functions of nurses more ...