Nursing is a profession that can be challenging nowadays because nurses will be seeing patient or career’s expectation of services that cannot be met with existing resources.
As a graduated nurse leader currently working at one of the government hospitals in Malaysia under the Female Medical Ward, the job can be both advantageous and challenging at the same time. Good communication is very important between nurses and their patients as it will lead to a successful outcome of nursing care of each patient. Besides, communication between the nurses has never been more crucial as well. As a nurse, leadership skills have to be well-demonstrated as well as to have a positive outlook. Being a nurse leader will go a long way in professional relationship
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A manager must be endowed with leadership qualities by developing strategies that create and maintain competitive advantage. Both leadership and management are crucial for individual as well as for optimal organizational efficiency. It is to be learnt that leadership differs from management in a sense that management compromises with the technical dimension in the organization while leadership compromises with the people aspect.
In this assignment, I will be focusing on the leadership qualities in my area of workplace involving my own staffs department, other departments within the organization, and patient care. As one of the nurse leader in my department, I use relationship-centered communication techniques in my workplace. I often give praises to the group members for effort and encouraging input. As nurses in the world are known with their most caring traits, they have built their own credit in the medial industry. But regardless of being valued, nurses still have to overcome several difficulties in their career such as long working hours, less compensation, and workplace violence. Helge (2001) stated that the trends in the
Leadership has many definitions. Chin, Desormeaux, and Sawyer (2016) define leadership as a relationship between followers and a leader with the intent to promote change through a mutual vision. Therefore, leaders are active influences in the outcome of organizations, through their decision-making, strategies, and influence on followers (Dinh et al., 2014). Additionally, in the nursing context, it has been documented that a leader 's style plays a factor in patient outcomes (Fischer, 2016). Indeed, in an ever-changing, complex health care environment, nursing leadership has become a crucial factor in managing challenges and maintaining patient safety (Fischer, 2016).
Nurses are uniquely positioned to be present at virtually every level of our health care system, nurses work at the community centers, clinics, hospitals and nurses are also present not only as bedside clinicians but also at the level of management, in the form of nurse managers, supervisors all the way up to the Director of nurses. We have a unique vantage point of the real state of affairs of our health care system, with the push for higher education and training, nurses will start to occupy more influential
Communication in nursing is known for its life saving success as well as its greatest flaw in poor patient outcomes. There is always room for improvement and when communication is carried out efficiently, healthcare professionals have reaped the benefits. However, there have been many instances in which nurses have had to learn the hard way of how detrimental communication can be to patient safety. Through research and reviews of literature, the topic of patient safety related to handoff communication among units is analyzed.
1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate • To express wants/needs • Being social with peers • Asking questions • To express emotions and feelings 1.2 Explain how communication affects relationships in a work setting Communication is vital in a care setting, it can affect all aspects of care. In particular, communication can affect the relationships with service users and other colleagues. When effectively communicating with colleagues, managers or health professionals, will ensure that ideas and opinions are understood. In a care setting, it is a requirement to use teamwork and communicate effectively.
[Outcome 1] Understand communication needs and factors affecting them [1.1a] Analyse different models of communication Transactional analysis To understand communication needs and have good communication skills helps successful working environment, communicating with colleagues, health professionals, residents, and their families. In my working place I am providing communication in a variety of different forms: progress notes, Care plans, risk assessments, policies, handovers, accident forms, etc. Therefore, possessing good communication skills is essential in my role and also, I need ensure the best interest and of those under my care, and supervision met. According to Wikipedia Transactional analysis developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne, is a form of modern psychology that examines a person's relationships and
Even though there is a lot of pressure, high standards of care should be delivered with less manpower on board. Healthcare is complex and requires effective leaders to lead and adopt the change . (Rolfe 2011). Effective leadership is offered as the key to functional and supportive work environment for nurses and other health professionals. Dandson et al.
All the qualities mentioned above are the qualities that make a good and an effective nursing leader. However, from these examples we can see that having leadership qualities does not always refer to those who are managers. Nursing staff I worked with, my fellow students, faculty who have taught me also possess these
However, there are certain strategies that can overcome these barriers. For instance, the nurse’s resistance to change and poor communication of objectives is overcome by constant communication of the benefits of this leadership style not just through word, but also through actions until they understand its
Contextual Project on Public Health Management 1. Concept of Public Health nursing Public Health Nursing is the science and art preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health and efficiency through organized community effort toward a sanitary environment (Basavantappa 2008). Public health nurse deals with health promotion and prevention by identifying risk population and initiate ways of prevent such identity risk. Broadly public health nursing covers the care of an individual’s families and community as a whole in terms of epidemiology and policies for healthy action. Health is not static is dynamic therefore human being has to adjust to their environment.
Introduction Sarah is the manager of a Physician Billing department. The billing department was struggling when Sarah came on board. One of the first things Sarah did was ask the employees what they needed to do better at their jobs (Hess & Cameron, 2006). Sarah believed that the people doing the job are who knows best what they need to do a good job. Sarah’s leadership is based on the values of humanity, individuality, engagement, involvement, life, significance, and play contributed to change in the billing department.
They are able to connect, communicate and coordinate across multiple departments, professional opinions and voices, and the daily schedules of patients. Advocating and designing care with the patient and family is a true skills set and cultural attribute that adds tremendously to a culture of safety and patient – centeredness but requires the most able leadership to build these bridges across the many professionals engaged in care. Building this culture is a leadership challenge and there is no one in my experience better able to make these changes than nursing leaders ( Maureen Bisognano, 2009). Nurses should not just be at the bedside or within the nursing community but must be involved as leaders and decision – makers throughout the healthcare system. As Maureen Bisognano (2009) points out, the best nurses are accomplished envoys among different players and interests involved in direct patient care, which is a skill needed throughout organizations and businesses, not just in hospitals or
Introduction: I will look at ten concepts from the Block-3. Then me look critically at how each would apply to my personal life; how each may be found in different contextual settings; followed by some research that refers to each concept; how each could apply to my workplace and finally how useful each concept could be useful or not to the current world. Ten Concepts as follows: I have selected below concepts from block 3 - Leadership and Communication • BEHAVIOURAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP • CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION • Management • TEAM WORK • NURSE LEADER • CULTURAL INFLUENCE ON COMMUNICATION • EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING • DEVELOPING INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION • TECHNIQUES IN NURSING • LEADERSHIP STYLE 1. BEHAVIOURAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP -
(Nursing Times). Nursing is gaining influence in all aspect of healthcare practice, therefore it is important for nurses to develop good leadership skills at the early stage of their practice which is the key to all nursing career and nurse managers can become good leaders with effective training and enhancement of their skills in leadership. Most nursing managers are tossed around by their leaders when they themselves are leaders in their capacities. A nursing manager aspiring to become a leader must be committed to excellence and passion for patient’s advocacy, employee’s protection and be a role model, living by example.
“Effective communication is one of the most vital components of healthcare” (Crouch et al. , 2013). It is through effective communication that nurses are able to discuss their client’s needs and provide all the necessary elements for increased healing both physically and mentally. Nurses are able to form a therapeutic relationships with their clients through various forms of communication and provide the best care needed for not only the client but for the family members of the client as well. One of the many ways to establish a strong therapeutic relationship with patients is to make the patient feel at ease with humour. Friendliness and laughter are important factors when forming trust between nurses and patient.
A person chooses to become a nurse for many different reasons, however nurses must learn, understand and acquire certain qualities to fit the role efficiently and aid patients effectively. These certain qualities are essential to nurses in different fields all over the world. Some qualities nurses must have are knowledge, empathy, advocacy, collaboration, accountability and communication. These qualities were put on a Coat of Arms for a group project using unique symbols that clearly represent each quality thoroughly. A brain represents knowledge and understanding, due to the fact that nurses must use their knowledge learned in school to interpret, understand and assess their patients carefully and completely.