Essays on Leadership In Nursing

Introduction Medical leadership is becoming crucial due to the current trends where there is a lot of expansion in the medical field. A large percentage of hospital experts are becoming leaders as they open up their private clinics which then means must acquire necessary leadership traits for successful operation. This is the reason why medical training on leadership is now becoming an important component in medical schools such as Duke University and the University of Kentucky. These traits make the…...

Introduction Nurses face day-to-day challenges as they provide care for their patients. In the past, nurses have been managed inappropriately with their values and needs being unmotivated due to the then leadership styles. Nursing leadership styles have however experienced a significant change over time. This change has improved the welfare of nurses and improved healthcare outcomes (Cummings et al. 2010, p. 364). This essay describes the benefits of an efficient leadership approach that promotes professionalism and creates healthy work environment.…...

Thusly, one may wonder, what do nursing and leadership have in common? Caring and compassion (Pullen, 2016). Leaders (regardless of their given profession) do more than direct people and delegate tasks. Leadership, among other things, involves the influencing of the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings of other people, which hopefully results in a feeling of being genuinely valued and respected by the aforementioned group of individuals (Pullen, 2016). Leadership is integral in helping to bring an organization's mission and vision…...

The Problem The identified problem related to practice is the spread of Clostridium difficile in the Emergency Department. Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a prevalent problem as it occurs after patients in the ED use antibiotics or after being exposed overnight to the ED environment (McDonald, Kutty & Kaplan, 2017). According to a nationwide U.S inpatient database, there has been an increase of C. difficile Infections by more than 43% since 2001 (Davies et al., 2014). This problem is related…...

Leadership in Nursing. Definitions, Theories, and Styles of Leadership Developing future nurse leaders is one of the greatest challenges faced by the nursing profession (Mahoney, 2001). Powerful leadership skills are needed by all nurses—those providing direct care to those in top management positions. Anyone who is looked to as an authority (e. g. , a nurse taking care of a patient) or who is responsible for giving assistance to others is considered a leader (Mahoney, 2001). A clinical nursing leader…...

Nursing has never been simple profession and it is not an easy task to quantify the contributions nurses have made in shaping healthcare. Modern nursing is complex, ever changing and multi focused; requiring nurses to evolve personally and professionally as leaders in healthcare. What is leadership? Leadership is defined by what it is, as much as what it is not. Leadership has nothing to do with titles, age, seniority, education or status, but rather associated with the characteristics that define…...