Leadership is an important factor in an “employees’ job satisfaction, retention, and accountability” (Metzger et al, 2014, p. 337). According to Metzger et al (2014), effective leadership “can lead to higher-quality patient care and patient outcomes” (Metzger et al, 2014, p. 337). Crisp states, “as APRNs it is our duty to be leaders in our field…for the well-being of all nurses, patients, and colleagues” (Crisp, 2016, p. 10).…
As a Nurse Leader, one’s knowledge and influence, both formal and informal, is beneficial in multiple scenarios. As a leader, the master’s prepared nurse uses influence to lead other members of the healthcare team, not only with formal authority granted by the position, but also informal influence with leading by example. The American Association of Colleges of Nurses (2011) composed the roles of the master’s prepared nurse to include leadership responsibilities. Essential lX: The master’s prepared nurse will “use leadership skills to teach, coach, and mentor other members of the healthcare team” (p. 27). Essential Vll: The master’s prepared nurse will “use effective communication strategies to develop, participate, and lead interprofessional…
This style of leadership has been shown to improve patient outcomes, reduce staff turnover, and reduce medical errors. (Gardener, 2005; Joint Commission, 2008; Pearson, 2007) For the needed changes in the U.S. healthcare system to take place all nurses from nursing students through Chief Nursing Officers must develop competencies in leadership and become partners with physicians and others to improve our healthcare system and delivery of…
Leadership and management are an integral part of every nurse’s job, from staff nurse through to those in official executive roles. Management responsibilities such as organising, planning, delivering and evaluating care are activities that a nurse will enagage with every single day while at work. With an ever-limited and aging workforce, a decrease in available resources, a more acutely ill patient population and a profound period of change within the National Health Service (NHS) today’s health care workers are exposed to high stress levels to meet the demands required of them, which is resulting in effective nursing leadership and management being a challenging and difficult task.…
She manages and provides high quality and cost-effective care to adult and geriatric patients. The advance nurse practitioner leader performs physical examination, diagnoses and treat health problems, orders tests, prescribes medications, counsels and teaches health promotion and disease prevention. Analysis of the discussed APN competencies Organizational and systems leadership The advance nurse practitioner leader uses…
Core Competencies Nursing is a challenging field of study that allows for similarities and differences across the various positions that one has the potential to hold. A non-clinical nurse administrator and a clinical nurse practitioner are both advanced positions within the field of nursing; however, they vary and require different core competencies for each individual professional role. As with any professional position, required education and several competencies are needed to successfully fill the role. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the core competencies of a non-clinical nurse administrator and a clinical nurse practitioner.…
The nurse who possesses leadership skills, more specifically transformational leadership skills, will have a vision of what and how the unit should…
Nurse leaders need to make the workplace a better place to work and better place to receive care. They need to nurture their caring consciousness and leadership skills. A caring environment can bring positive outcomes such as improved patient care and increased satisfaction among patients and nurse (Williams II, Mcdowell, & Kautz,…
The first category is the transformation of leadership. Which consist of force one, Quality of Nursing Leadership and force three, which is, Management Style. Leaders need to be empowered through education and knowledge, meaning that the chief nursing officer should hold a minimum of a masters, and nurse managers should maintain a bachelor degree. Management are required to transform an organization’s values, beliefs, and behaviors. An organizations’ leaders need to create the vision for the future.…
Finkelman, A., & Kenner, C. (2013). Professional nursing concepts: Competencies for quality leadership (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Pennsylvania State Education Association. (2015, January 1).…
In the health care field there are three major roles that health care professional fall into leadership, management, and followership (Yoder-Wise, 2015, p. 4-5). Leadership can be defined as “The use of personal traits to constructively and ethically influence patients, families, and staff through a process in which clinical and organizational outcomes are achieved through collective efforts” (Yoder-Wise, 2015, p. 584). The emergency room is full of strong personalities and experienced nurses all which must be able to take on these roles at any given time. A nurse must have the ability to change roles rapidly in critical care situations to provide the level of care.…
Nicolson et al. , (2011) recommend NHS Leaders to be a distributed one because; it can be transformational in cases where the conjoint action occurs in engaging the team. The researcher employs leaders to have awareness of their task; can engage their colleagues; have social and emotional intelligence as these elements determine the qualities of services to be delivered. The leadership framework, (2011) restatement the leadership role to be shared among clinician and not to be limited to those in leadership position alone. Figure 3: The Leadership framework Notes: NHS leadership Academy.…
The nurse leaders’ contributions to outcomes are very significant to me. I have been having constant desire, since I join the nursing profession to learn and grow in the knowledge of this honorable profession. This has increased my search on the important nursing disciplines. With training in management and the importance of teamwork, I look forward to form a great team at my working place which aimed at providing quality care to patients. My strength is that I am a self-disciplined person.…
In 2010 the Institute of Medicine published a report called The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. It discusses how nurses can make changes to create a greater role in America’s healthcare system. It encourages nurses to become more educated and to take on leadership roles. It also talks about nurses working in partnership with physicians and other highly trained healthcare professionals. Therefore, nurses should study this report and see what kind of changes they can make in their own practice.…
The healthcare environment is rapidly evolving as the needs of clients and technology changes to conform to the growing competitiveness in healthcare provision. This calls for healthcare practitioners to develop leadership attributes to inspire their colleagues in the pursuit of a common goal of improved patient care. Health care givers are thus required to nurture in themselves characteristics, such as creativity, vision, communication skills to assist them in decision-making at patient level. An effective healthcare leader possesses attributes, such as courage, ability to handle stress, initiative and integrity in addition to thinking critically, communicating and collaborating skillfully and being able to set and meet goals.…