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Nursing and Leadership

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Nursing and Leadership

Leadership Traits, Qualities, and Styles Required and How They Align With the

Worldview of a Christian

Leadership Traits

There are various traits that help nurses make advancement in their nursing career and

meet organizational goals. They include a service oriented outlook on healthcare system,

1.A Service-Oriented Outlook on Healthcare

The amount of work that nurse leaders must coordinate during busy periods can be daunting. No
matter how much pressure they're under, strong leaders should make reaching a high level of
customer satisfaction a top priority.

From a leadership standpoint, though, a personalized emphasis on customer care is insufficient.

Effective nurse leadership often entails a commitment to fostering a service-oriented community
among all workers.

Nurse leaders will do this by implementing strategies such as teaching nurses and other front-line
employees how to use scripts to direct encounters with the public. Even during difficult or
challenging periods, implementing such programs helps to maintain a supportive atmosphere that
is polite, encouraging, and relaxed for patients and their families.

2.Dedication to Excellence
Nursing leaders who are in charge of setting priorities for their organizations' nursing
departments are the most successful. They must insist on ensuring that their staff have excellent
patient services as part of their dedication to excellence.

American Nurse Today advises trained nurse representatives to set three targets and commit to
meeting them every 90 days while they aim for success for their colleagues. Efficient lead nurses
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give their teams more to work for by setting three short-term goals that will boost both their
success and patient safety.

To help them decide what priorities to achieve, the best nursing team leaders solicit feedback
from their colleagues. They will ensure that their companies make sound decisions based on the
needs of customers by gathering and using feedback.

3.Change Management
The health-care sector is constantly changing. As a result, nurse management leaders must be
able to direct their staff as they adjust to emerging demands in the workplace.

If you want to be a nurse leader, you should pay attention to can employees are likely to oppose a
transition and figure out how to convince them that they have an interest in its success. When
facilities implement improvements, you can try to determine which members of your staff are
likely to be early adopters of the changes, as these people will be able to assist their peers
undeterred.

These efforts will help to reduce the likelihood of poor employee results as a result of a negative
emotional reaction to organizational changes.

4.Creating Learning Opportunities for Employees

If you wish to be a good nurse leader, you can try to use the third choice as much as possible. Of
necessity, patient protection comes first, but managers can delegate time-sensitive or potentially
risky tasks to the most qualified individuals.

Committed leaders evaluate the new timetable and take steps to ensure that the individual knows
what to do if the situation happens again.

Leadership Styles

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1 .Autocratic Leadership in Nursing

Autocratic leadership in nursing involves a great deal of decision-making. Autocratic nursing
leaders are comfortable making decisions without consulting their colleagues, and they often
hide facts from the team in general. This kind of leader has a low tolerance for errors.

When it comes to making swift decisions, autocratic leadership in nursing would be successful.
This could come in handy in an emergency or by enforcing "zero incidence" policies.

2.Laissez-Faire Leadership in Nursing

In nursing, laissez-faire leadership is more common to new or novice nurse leaders. Laissez-faire
nursing practitioners, also known as hands-off leaders, seldom give guidance or input to their
teams, preferring instead to let them work as they see fit without constant oversight. These
politicians aren't seen as capable decision-makers.

A highly experienced and successful team can succeed under laissez-faire leadership in nursing
because it does not micromanage or prescribe how their team can work. This ideology backs up
the idea that if anything isn't wrong, it doesn't need to be patched or modified, something that a
laid-back nursing chief will never do.

3. Servant Leadership in Nursing

Servant leadership refers to leaders who empower and inspire people by establishing
relationships and improving the talents of individual team members, and it has recently gained in
prominence. The concept was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970 to describe leaders that are
drawn to serve first and then lead. In nursing, servant leadership entails a chief who is
instinctively concerned with and individual's well-being.

When leading a multidisciplinary, diverse team, servant leadership in nursing can be highly
helpful. Regardless of their duties, specialties, or resource demands, servant leaders succeed at
addressing the needs of individual team members.

4. Democratic Leadership in Nursing

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When making choices, the democratic leadership model embraces and promotes team feedback
and coordination. This style of leader places a high emphasis on relationships, and it's vital to
them that their employees feel free to express their thoughts, beliefs, and ideas. A democratic
leader also recognizes the importance of giving input to their team, seeing contact as a two-way
street.

In nursing, democratic leadership will help to ensure that the staff is respected and relaxed
speaking up. Transparency and feedback from staff members with the most experience, not
simply seniority or highest level, are valued in high reliability organisations, making this form of
leader helpful in building an atmosphere that encourages input from the entire team.

5. Transformational Leadership in Nursing

Transformational leadership is a management philosophy that encourages people to take

responsibility for their work and go beyond and beyond. Transformational leadership shows
people how to learn more than simply doing as they are told, rather than assigning jobs from the
top. They are known as quiet leaders because they lead by example.

Since these leaders excel at dispute solving, transformational leadership in nursing encourages
and motivates staff to discover new ways to achieve a goal. They will organize individuals into
workable units, improving a group's well-being, confidence, and inspiration by excellent rapport.

Leadership Qualities

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1.Intergrity

A key goal for nurse leaders is to maintain their own and their charges' integrity. Personal
integrity assists nurse practitioners with making the best decisions about their patients at key
points in their care plans. Successful leaders also adapt and use and teach ethically sound
strategies that allow new nurse leaders to make healthy and effective care choices on their own.

2.Critical thinking
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Nurse leaders coach newbies on how to use strategic thinking to improve their abilities to make
decisions based on a variety of considerations. In a health-care setting where multidisciplinary
teamwork is becoming more common, this expertise is essential. Critical thinking is becoming a
valuable technical skill for nurses as the movement toward autonomy grows.

3.Communication skills

Collaboration in the care system setting has never been more important than it is now, thanks to
the new multidisciplinary healthcare climate. Nurse leaders plan for trainees to attend rounds
while interacting with a variety of medical practitioners, including support personnel, primary
care providers, and senior executives, in order to promote teamwork. Some health-care providers
also have retention policies in place.

4.Respect

Nurse leaders are charismatic, enthusiastic influencers who encourage others to improve while
also earning the love and confidence of their patients. To do this, leaders teach engagement
strategies such as two-way communication and rephrasing to encourage partners to participate in
meaningful, constructive interactions at work. By gaining a better understanding of each other's
situation, they would be able to work together more effectively.

5.Mentorship

Nurse leaders use motivational techniques that are tailored to their trainees' unique
characteristics. Nurse leaders foster a culture of continuous learning by inspiring trainees and
leading them toward recognizing their responsibilities as caregivers. Although good nurse
leaders make every attempt to recognize learning experiences, they also allow trainees more
autonomy so that they do not feel compelled to participate.