There are many challenges facing nurse leaders today. Healthcare organizations are complex and constantly changing environments. Effective nursing teams are necessary to ensure the safe provision of patient care and high quality outcomes. Nurse leaders are challenged to build team trust and collaboration among team members to assure healthy work environments (Curtis, De Vries, & Sheerin, 2011). An essential skill to building team trust is clear communication. The ability to communicate expectations to the team builds trust through collaboration and working towards a common goal. Trust also builds relationships that fosters collaboration (Renia, Renia, & Rushton, 2007) The purpose of communication is to provide information and to increase
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Trust grows incrementally for nursing teams. Clinical competencies, professional standards, and well defined roles creates a starting point and expectations for a team. Nursing teams that work towards a common goal such as improved patient outcomes build trust more rapidly since expectations are well established (Renia et al., 2007). The impact of developing relationships that inspire trust on a team cannot be discounted. Team members that have unclear role expectations or feel disrespected on a team will slowly erode trust. Poor team relationships make it difficult to communicate, which is the cornerstone of collaboration. Activities that build relationships such as social events allow team members to get to know each other out of the organization (Costello & Thompson, …show more content…
When nurse leadership is ineffective there is a direct correlation to increased staff turnover, poor job satisfaction, and poor patient outcomes (Wong, Cummings, & Ducharme, 2013). When a team does not trust a leader, the team can become frustrated by the lack of guidance and communication. As a result, trust among the team suffers, as does collaboration (Renia et al., 2007). When team collaboration is lacking, patient outcomes suffer. Nurse leaders need to be supportive of staff to promote better outcomes for patients (Wong et al.,
Trust grows incrementally for nursing teams. Clinical competencies, professional standards, and well defined roles creates a starting point and expectations for a team. Nursing teams that work towards a common goal such as improved patient outcomes build trust more rapidly since expectations are well established (Renia et al., 2007). The impact of developing relationships that inspire trust on a team cannot be discounted. Team members that have unclear role expectations or feel disrespected on a team will slowly erode trust. Poor team relationships make it difficult to communicate, which is the cornerstone of collaboration. Activities that build relationships such as social events allow team members to get to know each other out of the organization (Costello & Thompson, …show more content…
When nurse leadership is ineffective there is a direct correlation to increased staff turnover, poor job satisfaction, and poor patient outcomes (Wong, Cummings, & Ducharme, 2013). When a team does not trust a leader, the team can become frustrated by the lack of guidance and communication. As a result, trust among the team suffers, as does collaboration (Renia et al., 2007). When team collaboration is lacking, patient outcomes suffer. Nurse leaders need to be supportive of staff to promote better outcomes for patients (Wong et al.,