NURSING LEADERSHIP

Nursing Leadership

Abstract

Today's nursing leaders function in environments where change is the only constant. They face critical leadership challenges in a world of fast paced turbulent change from both the organization and the environment. Such challenges include health care delivery systems, multiple demands for quality services, and shortages within the nursing profession. Organizational change and how health care delivery systems are managed have led to role changes of nurse leaders. Additionally, how effective leaders are impacts their employees along with organizational success. Review of the literature reveals that leadership outcomes such as extra effort; effectiveness and satisfaction are impacted by leadership styles. Based on these findings, there is a need for effective leadership. Nursing leadership is seen as a set of attributes, not as a process of influence innate and adaptive nature, with an attitudinal component predominates. This professional nurse in terms of attitudes and values ??expected: responsibility, integrity and commitment, skills, effective communication, teamwork and management skills, in knowledge: those related to the task. Nursing leadership is also expected to have clear objectives, promoting teamwork and act consistently to develop work-related activities and people. Not identified a strong notion in favor of the practice of challenging the process as for leadership styles premium to participate. It supports the influence of situational factors but they do not determine the leadership style of practice.

Table of Content

Abstract2

Introduction4

Discussion4

Nursing Leadership styles5

Transformational leadership5

Transactional leadership6

Laissez-faire leadership6

Characteristics of a Nurse Leader6

Vision6

Influence7

Motivation7

Trust7

Political competition7

Review and change8

Conclusion8

References10

Introduction

In her 1976 book on the early origins of nursing in the United States, Jo Ann Ashley noted, “Professional nursing must begin exerting open and public leadership…. Nurses must change their own attitudes toward themselves and their role … from meeting the needs of hospitals and physicians to meeting those of the patient and the public” (p. 113).

More than 3 decades later, nursing leadership has moved nursing forward in the direction identified by Ashley. These changes are remarkable considering the history of nursing and the obstacles created by both cultural expectations and the health care bureaucracy since modern nursing's inception in the United States. Today's nursing leaders are found in the academy, in hospitals and other health care organizations, in legislatures, and in a wide range of government agencies and voluntary organizations.

Leadership is not a new concept in the nursing literature, but one that is increasingly under scrutiny as a characteristic of the acute care work environment affecting not only nurse satisfaction, but also patient outcomes. Numerous problems are associated with the leadership role including poor job descriptions, an increase in responsibility without an increase in authority, and - even more serious - a lack of education on how to lead others (Williams & Gordon, 2006). The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the nursing leadership in healthcare system.

Discussion

Nursing today is an important pillar in the National Health System; Physician work would be incomplete without the presence of staff in this branch. The efficiency of health services depends heavily on the leader's role as administrator of the ...