A leader is someone who influences others and convinces them to move towards a certain goal at a certain time. Some people are naturally leaders born with the characteristic to lead, but others require learning leadership and management skills to succeed. A great leader will need emotional intelligence, right personality and the ability to lead. Almost everyone gets the opportunity to lead or manage at some point in their lives, and here is where skills are tested. Leadership and managerial positions are different although at times many people use them interchangeably. Nonetheless, some individuals are can be good in both roles, and companies need both in order to succeed. The main motive of this paper is to compare and contrast how nursing …show more content…
Leadership is forward reaching, commitment, and innovating in bringing teams together driving to the same shared goals. It is imperative for great leaders to look ahead into the future of nursing and predict the trend of nurse shortages and the negative impact on national health (Keenan, 2006). Thus, finding solution would be the greatest focus and the leaders would play a big part in changes. It is imperative for leaders to encourage current nurses to pursue higher education to so that they may achieve satisfaction, and self-actualization. Leaders should positively encourage more nurse educators so as to recruit more nursing students to educate for future nurses. In order to decrease the nurse turn over leaders could do a confidential survey and seek to find out why nurses turnover jobs so that they may understand things that they need changed, and thus get them fixed. Good leaders also work on investing on the nurses, motivate, inspire, and empower each nurse to acquire self-confidence. Leaders act like role models by coaching, listening, and mentoring nurses to make them better (Ribelin, 2006). On the other hand, managers usually sees each nurse as an expense and focuses on short term problems or just immediate needs. Instead of managers seeking to find out why there is a high turnover, they anticipate to hire when a nurse leaves. …show more content…
A nurse has to be a good leader and a knowledgeable manager. The best leadership skills come about by coordinating and collaborating with others. Some good leaders possess innate qualities which make them more qualified at improving patients’ care, and retaining qualified nurse professional (Cheery, 2013). Not everyone has qualities of a leader, and that is why not all leaders are best leaders. This writer prefers of being more of a leader than being a manager in dealing with nurse shortages. It is important to build and inspire nurses so that they can function independently now and beyond, instead of being a manager just to meet the status quo. In addition, this writer also believes that a combination of skill sets one up to be a great leader. This writer also believes that great leaders continue to grow personally and professionally daily during work and play. This writer believes in transformational leadership where the leader works with staff to come up with the needed change, guiding the change through inspiration, and then implementing the change. This student wants to inspire others by leading by example, make followers, and aim to achieve some important goals to benefit
Nursing leaders ' responsibility extends to become a voice for the nurses and for offering quality in patient care, not just at their organizations but spanning the whole communities, interacting with law makers in revising regulations and laws, with researchers and educators. Nurse leaders, in particular those at manager and supervisory levels are spread sparsely. They are involved in business planning, human resources, information management and writing reports. It is advisable for them to refocus the leadership on care which matters to patients which is the essence of
The authors in this article aimed to discover nurse manager leadership styles and their outcomes. Nurses from hospitals in the Northeastern part of the United States were asked questions. The data was collected in a locked room, alone, so no one would influence the answers of someone else. The results were put into a software program and displayed for analysis. Results showed when choosing a nurse for a managerial leadership role, one should choose someone if they have the basic components of transformational leadership, not transactional leadership. The authors show that transformational leadership had revealed positive patient outcomes, retention, and satisfaction in the nursing staff. Those nurse leaders who have qualities of transformational leadership are encouraged to build on those skills constantly.
If there is not strong leadership in nursing, I believe the profession will continue to lose exceptional nurses, since leadership in the workplace influences nurses intent to stay (Cowden et al., 2011, p. 462). Leadership is the process whereby the leader attempts to motivate individuals to achieve a collective goal (Cowden et al., 2011, p. 462). Transformational leaders are focused on achieving a common goal by fostering growth and change. This type of leadership decreases power imbalances as it strives to empower all members of the group. A transformational leader is one who encourages intrinsic reward amongst individuals (Nielsen, 2013, p.128). Grossman and Valiga (2013) comment on the power of transformational leadership and state: “this motivation energizes people to perform beyond expectations by creating a sense of ownership in reaching the vision” (p.
They are influenced by their family of origin, their education, their work experience, and the people they interact with. For Ms. Eckert this has all brought her to her current career position and approach to leadership. She holds leadership not only as the challenge and difficult task that many people today see it as. She also views it as an amazing opportunity to influence others. Ms. Eckert also noted the importance of coaching others, both in their nursing development, and in their leadership potential. This is particularly important as we are facing rapid change within the nursing field. There should be a certain amount of mentorship to learn from those who have experience and to develop one’s own skill. For Ms. Eckert some of the main elements she discussed as contributing to a strong leader are the willingness to coach others, emotional intelligence, a sense of spirituality, valuing diversity, and openness to change and innovation. It should then be the hope of future nurses to emulate this idea of leadership and personal growth as members of the healthcare
Hospital administrators will charge nurse leaders with ensuring that patient positive outcomes prevail while also controlling overhead. Nurse leaders are specially trained just for this task. Clinical Nurse Leaders are the experts that America’s patients will rely on to keep them safe and healthy in hospital settings.
The focus of this paper is to explore the role of the registered nurse as a leader and manager in the healthcare team. The role of management in nursing affects almost every aspect of the registered nurse’s daily work. An effective manager requires a variety of interpersonal skills that are both learned and intuitive. These skills are of great importance in the management of clients, family, and other healthcare professionals. Management skills are both learned and intuitive, although practice and experience may be one of the most essential ingredients to effective management. This paper explores a few of the essential skills required to be an effective manager.
When talking about leadership, one cannot help but wonder how it relates to nursing. If the focus of nursing should be caring for patients who are either well or ill, then why is there a need to tackle leadership? Unlike before, today’s health care environment is complex, rapid and continuously changing. This development prompts an upcoming danger to the nurse’s skills, identity and ability to coordinate with other health care professionals. On the other hand, this also makes nurses challenge their own into taking the lead, developing goals, consolidating a purpose and moving towards an attainable vision. A nurse leader then needs to combine clinical, administrative, financial and operational skills to effectively solve various clinical challenges. These challenges are the rationale behind tackling the need for leadership in nursing.
Nursing provides critical contributions to the healthcare system. With the increases in global health challenges, expanding technologies, increased diversity and the increasingly complex health problems of patients it is detrimental to equip nurses with the valuable knowledge and skills to lead change, promote health and evaluate levels of care in multiple settings through Master’s level nursing education (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, AACN, 2011). Master’s level nurses are capable to build and lead collaborative interprofessional teams and recognize the need to promote high quality and safe patient care guided by organizational and systems leadership (AACN,2011). The use of transformational leadership could effectively promote
Nurse manager is a specific position with specific responsibilities and obligations. Nurse managers need to be task-oriented and oversee the day to day functioning of their unit or organization, as well as manage their employees. They are integral in executing organizational goals and meeting the demands of the organization (Brown, Fraser, Wong, Muise, & Cummings, 2013). Leaders are those who motivate and guide others to enhance patient care and achieve organizational goals (Giltinane CL, 2013). Specific personality traits unique to a leader have been described as courage, confidence, ability to prioritize, display ethical fitness, and work with purpose (Grimm, 2010).
Nurse’s can demonstrate leadership by facilitating outstanding care to patients and it is related to how one’s values and behavior affect others. A leader is all about with success and contribution and a successful leader set his/her standards, goals and strategies at high. One can become a leader by assigned or emerged but both will be working towards a common goal of good or bad. In leadership, positive attitude is the key to success and problems and challenge in healthcare industry demand that nurses seek and fill the gap.
Today, nurses are not just caring for the sick at bedside, they have moved up to executive roles because of advancement in nursing education. The advancement in nursing education has given nurses the opportunity to improve their knowledge and expand their role to the executive level in healthcare. Nurses who have completed the DNP degree report that it provides them with improvement in their clinical expertise and the ability to shape health care policy. Transformational leadership has proven to be an effective leadership style in the nursing profession and it has been correlated with improved job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and nurse retention. The top three characteristics of an effective leader are the ability to communicate well, fairness to everyone on the team and are knowledgeable in ones area of practice. Both communication and collaboration are used to enhance and make the job of leading others more effective. Five practices of exemplary leadership
Nurses play an essential role in a holistic approach towards health care delivery, spent most of the time with the patient and their families in educating, advocating, solving the problem and leading them towards the right direction. The Institute of Medicine report on future Nursing describes Nurses as “ the multidimensional efforts for changing health outcomes.”( Scultz, 2010). To bring change in any system needs deliberate efforts, dedication, motivation and passionate leadership towards the desired goal. History of nursing profession witnessed that nurses had not been considered as a leader. However, with changing in better career opportunities and educational advancement, world’s perspective of Nursing
Effective leadership has a great impact in what direction the team takes. They have great communication skills and are very easy to talk to and approach. Employees look up to the nurse leader for reassurance and comfort when things are not so bright. Leaders are very compassionate and caring individuals. They are not afraid to take risk in order to reach their goals. Nurse leaders will go the extra mile for his or staff and patients. From a leader standpoint, providing quality care to every patient is a priority. Leaders are usually on the floor with the nurses and are very aware of the work load. Leaders can better understand the nurse’s frustration about the staffing ratio. Sometimes having four patients feels like six because of the acuity level. When faced with a situation like not having enough staff to work a shift, leaders are quick to call in an extra nurse to come and work. Reducing the work load and proving effective quality care to the patients is what a leader usually has in mind. Leaders are not thinking about the hospital budget and deficits. They look at the big picture which is staff shortage and the work that needs to get done. The leaders goal is to keep everyone safe and happy. According to Stanley (2006), leaders tend to be solitary, proactive, intuitive, emphatic and attracted to situations of high risk; they ask the 'why not ' question and 'do the right thing. Therefore, a leader will do everything he or she can to accommodate patients and nurses
Before starting this course and reading the book The Servant by James Hunter, I had a preconceived idea of what traits a leader contained. Looking at leadership with the notion of serving others as the primary focus of a leadership model was an idea I wasn’t too sure of how it would play out in real life. While reading The Servant, I found myself intrigued by the idea of not only serving others in a leadership role, but by using the leadership model in everyday life. After further investigating servant leadership it was easy to see the leadership styles application into nursing practice not only as an individual in a leadership position, but also simply as a nurse in an organization serving coworkers, families and patients.
I am attracted to leadership because a healthy work environment is essential for optimal nursing practice. There are numerous factors that affect a healthcare setting, so in order to combat these obstacles by being a nurse manager it would allow myself and others to make a positive difference in the field. The ANA defines a Healthy Nurse framework as “one who actively focuses on creating and maintain a balance and synergy of physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, personal, and professional well-being. Healthy nurses live life to the fullest capacity, across the wellness-illness continuum, as they become stronger role models, advocates, and educators, personally, for their families, their communities, and work environments, and ultimately for their patients (ANA, 2015). I plan to continue my nursing education beyond an associate degree level because I desire to be a solid role-model, advocate, and educators, so one day I can lead other nurses and healthcare