INTRODUCTION
Nurses work with an extraordinary variety of people include doctors, psychologists, social worker, physical therapists, technicians, aids, unit managers, houskeeper’s clients and client’s family. So, nurses should study leadership to learn how to work well and effectively with other people. Leadership is commonly defined as a process of influence in which the leader influences others toward goal achivement (Yulk,1998). The impotant of leadership is ability to influence other people. Based on Kelly (2008), influence is an instrumental part of leadership and means that leader’s affect others, often by inspiring, enlivening, and engaging others to participate. Effective leaders enable people …show more content…
Initiative
Good ideas are not enough. To be a leader, a nurse should act on those good ideas. This requires initiative in the nurse theirself.
4. Energy
Leadership also require energy. Both leadership and followership are hard but satisfying attempt that require effort. It is also important to use energy wisely.
5. Optimism
When work is difficult and one crisis seems to follow in rapid succession, it is easy to become discouraged. It is important not to let discouragement keep a nurse and coworkers from seeking ways to resolve any problem. In fact, the ability to see a problem as an opportunity is part of the optimism that makes a person an effective leader.
6. Perseverance
Effective leaders do not give up easily. Instead, they persist, continuing their efforts when others are tempted to stop trying. This persistence often pays off.
7. Balance
In effort to become the best can be, a nurse may forget that other aspects of life are equally important. As important as the client and collegue to them, family and friends are important too. Although school and work are meaningful activity, cultural, social and recreational and spiritual activities also have meaning. So, nurses should find a balance between work and
Nurses work with an extraordinary variety of people include doctors, psychologists, social worker, physical therapists, technicians, aids, unit managers, houskeeper’s clients and client’s family. So, nurses should study leadership to learn how to work well and effectively with other people. Leadership is commonly defined as a process of influence in which the leader influences others toward goal achivement (Yulk,1998). The impotant of leadership is ability to influence other people. Based on Kelly (2008), influence is an instrumental part of leadership and means that leader’s affect others, often by inspiring, enlivening, and engaging others to participate. Effective leaders enable people …show more content…
Initiative
Good ideas are not enough. To be a leader, a nurse should act on those good ideas. This requires initiative in the nurse theirself.
4. Energy
Leadership also require energy. Both leadership and followership are hard but satisfying attempt that require effort. It is also important to use energy wisely.
5. Optimism
When work is difficult and one crisis seems to follow in rapid succession, it is easy to become discouraged. It is important not to let discouragement keep a nurse and coworkers from seeking ways to resolve any problem. In fact, the ability to see a problem as an opportunity is part of the optimism that makes a person an effective leader.
6. Perseverance
Effective leaders do not give up easily. Instead, they persist, continuing their efforts when others are tempted to stop trying. This persistence often pays off.
7. Balance
In effort to become the best can be, a nurse may forget that other aspects of life are equally important. As important as the client and collegue to them, family and friends are important too. Although school and work are meaningful activity, cultural, social and recreational and spiritual activities also have meaning. So, nurses should find a balance between work and