Nursing Leadership
Nursing stabilizes its own unique body of knowledge and forms its own leadership organizational structure. One of the key aims of nursing leadership is to create empowerment amongst nurses.
From the transition of non-modern to contemporary nursing, the new context of nursing leadership and management has emerged. However, an important question rises on how significant, relevant and efficient leadership is on both patient and nursing staff outcomes. Nowadays, staff nurses face a wide variety of challenges in the healthcare arena, from understaffing to under motivation; experiences such as burn out phenomena, as well as staff nurses work dissatisfaction. In the context of leadership, this essay will discuss the importance, effectiveness and applicability of nursing leadership on patient and staff outcomes in the modern day clinical practice.
Leadership raises a variety of ideas and images. These may consist of influence, power, charisma, goals, behavior, trait and personality (Curtis, et al., 2011). According to Patrick (2010), a group of researcher has tried to define, describe, assess and evaluate the idea of leadership. However, despite of these hard works the idea of leadership remains multifaceted. Over time, researches have investigated different facets of leadership as evidenced by many definitions.
Leadership requires the use interpersonal skills in order to influence others in accomplishing a specific goal (Sullivan and Garland, 2010). Similarly, Armstrong (2007) defines it as the ability to influence, empower, facilitate and network a group of people. Furthermore, Weihrich and Koontz (2005) describe it as the art or process of influencing people in order for them to strive enthusiastically and willingly toward the attainment of goals.
Therefore, a general theme seems to evolve from these definitions, whereas leadership involves people whose mind-set, actions and beliefs are influenced by others (Spector, 2006). It is the ability to persuade and at
From the transition of non-modern to contemporary nursing, the new context of nursing leadership and management has emerged. However, an important question rises on how significant, relevant and efficient leadership is on both patient and nursing staff outcomes. Nowadays, staff nurses face a wide variety of challenges in the healthcare arena, from understaffing to under motivation; experiences such as burn out phenomena, as well as staff nurses work dissatisfaction. In the context of leadership, this essay will discuss the importance, effectiveness and applicability of nursing leadership on patient and staff outcomes in the modern day clinical practice.
Leadership raises a variety of ideas and images. These may consist of influence, power, charisma, goals, behavior, trait and personality (Curtis, et al., 2011). According to Patrick (2010), a group of researcher has tried to define, describe, assess and evaluate the idea of leadership. However, despite of these hard works the idea of leadership remains multifaceted. Over time, researches have investigated different facets of leadership as evidenced by many definitions.
Leadership requires the use interpersonal skills in order to influence others in accomplishing a specific goal (Sullivan and Garland, 2010). Similarly, Armstrong (2007) defines it as the ability to influence, empower, facilitate and network a group of people. Furthermore, Weihrich and Koontz (2005) describe it as the art or process of influencing people in order for them to strive enthusiastically and willingly toward the attainment of goals.
Therefore, a general theme seems to evolve from these definitions, whereas leadership involves people whose mind-set, actions and beliefs are influenced by others (Spector, 2006). It is the ability to persuade and at