DISCUSSION
Defining clinical leadership
Clinical leaders are defined as clinical experts who provide direct clinical services to patients (Stanley 2012). The dimension in developing clinical leadership has been identified and these are related to organizing clinical area, providing patient service, and developing professional and competences for clinical leadership (Casey et al. 2011). This view is supported by Casey et al. (2011) who argues that clinical leadership optimizes patient services and increases patient outcomes by enabling nurses and midwives to be directly involved in the clinical care and building relationships between patients and multidisciplinary staffs. Joseph and Huber (2015) noted that clinical leadership uses nurse skills …show more content…
Hence, formal education and support are required for future clinical leaders to widen their roles and function in the scope of nursing practice at workplace. The responsibility of nursing education is to ensure the graduates are adequately prepared to provide quality care to patients in the consistently changing clinical environment. Drennan (2012) recommends that clinical leadership skills should be included into education curriculum structure at the postgraduate level. His study revealed that graduates had improved on their skills and competent to transform practice, motivate and inspire others, overcome the problems and work on a team as an outcome of completing a postgraduate nursing program. In addition, the implementation of clinical leadership into nursing education gained several benefits such as broadening the scope of nursing education and providing support and education for nurses at the microsystem level which allows interactions between nurses and patients (Baernholdt and Cottingham …show more content…
For instance, they access information from library, the internet, and their lecturers. This clinical leadership attribute enable nursing students to analyse critically the information that they gather and through wide reading and logic process, the new information is synthesised. Another source of information comes from qualified nurses who can balance between theory and experience (particularly in clinical practice), however, they may bring judgmental tendency into their thoughts. Nursing students need to figure this bias out to get valid information (Mannix, Wilkes and Daly
Defining clinical leadership
Clinical leaders are defined as clinical experts who provide direct clinical services to patients (Stanley 2012). The dimension in developing clinical leadership has been identified and these are related to organizing clinical area, providing patient service, and developing professional and competences for clinical leadership (Casey et al. 2011). This view is supported by Casey et al. (2011) who argues that clinical leadership optimizes patient services and increases patient outcomes by enabling nurses and midwives to be directly involved in the clinical care and building relationships between patients and multidisciplinary staffs. Joseph and Huber (2015) noted that clinical leadership uses nurse skills …show more content…
Hence, formal education and support are required for future clinical leaders to widen their roles and function in the scope of nursing practice at workplace. The responsibility of nursing education is to ensure the graduates are adequately prepared to provide quality care to patients in the consistently changing clinical environment. Drennan (2012) recommends that clinical leadership skills should be included into education curriculum structure at the postgraduate level. His study revealed that graduates had improved on their skills and competent to transform practice, motivate and inspire others, overcome the problems and work on a team as an outcome of completing a postgraduate nursing program. In addition, the implementation of clinical leadership into nursing education gained several benefits such as broadening the scope of nursing education and providing support and education for nurses at the microsystem level which allows interactions between nurses and patients (Baernholdt and Cottingham …show more content…
For instance, they access information from library, the internet, and their lecturers. This clinical leadership attribute enable nursing students to analyse critically the information that they gather and through wide reading and logic process, the new information is synthesised. Another source of information comes from qualified nurses who can balance between theory and experience (particularly in clinical practice), however, they may bring judgmental tendency into their thoughts. Nursing students need to figure this bias out to get valid information (Mannix, Wilkes and Daly