A Summary Of Positive Leadership In Nursing

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This article is about determining whether positive leadership helps prevent burnout among young nurses. The article also wants to decide if an intrapersonal resource of psychological capital plays a protective role against early stressors. The article summarizes leadership and how authentic leadership will promote better work performance and healthy well-being. Authentic leadership promotes self-awareness, relational transparency, and balanced processing. The psychological capital helps new nurses develop and manage their stressors throughout their careers. The study proved that leadership plays a key role in helping new nurses have positive experience being a nursing profession. The study’s results proved that psychological capital discovered new burnout effects on nurse graduates’ well-being and work performance.
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New graduate nurses need authentic leaderships to help them deal with challenges associated at their place of work. The study conducted is the first that focuses on new graduate burnout at their workplace. New leadership styles can be created to help new graduate nurses improve their experiences at work. In all, the article is a good source of information because it has a clear hypothesis and the results promote further research for solutions on burnout among new graduate nurses. The article is understandable and tables are provided to help establish the results found during the

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