Leadership Styles In Nursing School

The idea that no one leadership style is ideal and should vary according to the situation was first suggested over a century ago, and research findings since have extended knowledge and understanding on how leadership styles can either impede or be advantageous to organizational productivity and patient outcomes (Marquis & Huston, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to describe major tenets of leadership styles effective for communication problems, explain how leadership styles relate to communication problems, and offer a positive and a negative to each leadership style.

The most common styles she employs are democratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and shared leadership. Her position as a liaison between upper management and the nurse leads contributes to her need to regularly switch from a position of leader to follower and back again, keeping her not only extremely busy, but out of the office for most of the day. To lead her team, she must change tactics all day long, from one task to another. The leadership styles democratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and shared leadership all have one thing in common, these styles allow for the nurse manager to permit her team of nurse leads, the power to lead themselves. The nurse manager is capable of putting large amounts of responsibility in their subordinate’s hands, knowing that they are skilled and qualified to make decisions without interference (Giddens, J., 2013, p.376). These styles tend to work effectively for the Surgical Services Nurse Manager because her team of nurse leads are experienced and capable of performing their jobs with little to no feedback. While each of these three leadership styles: democratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and shared leadership, share some similarities, they are all slightly different, with some being more effective than others. Of the leadership styles she engages in, her use of shared leadership is most effective, while her use of the laissez-faire

In this essay I will discuss the leadership style of 3 nursing leaders, which I chose from Nursing Leadership DVD (Orazietti & Singh, 2014). I will then describe impact the leaders ' style has on improving nursing care, organizational processes, and inter-professional collaboration. In addition, I will provide some examples of a change process or difficult situation which leaders encountered. Finally, I will explain how I have dealt with difficult situation involving my colleague and one of physician in the hospital department where I worked. Throughout this essay I will analyze what leaders should have done differently. 3 Leaders which I have chosen were Debra Bournes from group 1 because of her political and administrative success, Mina Singh from group 2 because she is renowned for her educational style at York University, and Esther Green from group 3 because she is the sound and knowledgeable practitioner.

The aim of this essay is to identify a significant event from the authors clinical

Management and leadership are two different ways of organising people and although sometimes used interchangeably, they are two different functions. Management has a strong emphasis on order and control, while leadership has a focus on articulating a compelling vision, which both inspires and guides others to follow (Dignam et al., 2012). In this essay I will critique two styles of leadership, authoritarian and situational. In addition to this, the management cycle will be discussed. I will then identify how the newly graduated Registered Nurse and the nursing profession can use these styles to provide quality patient care.

In healthcare it is very important to have strong leaders, especially in the nursing profession. A nurse leader typically uses several styles of leadership depending on the situation presented; this is known as situational leadership. It is important that the professional nurse choose the right style of leadership for any given situation to ensure their employees are performing at their highest potential. Depending on which leadership style a nurse leader uses, it can affect staff retention and the morale of the employees as well as nurse job satisfaction (Azaare & Gross, 2011.) “Nursing leaders have the responsibility to create and maintain a work environment which not only promotes positive patient outcomes but also

Leadership is a skill some are born with the other can learn. There are many styles of leadership. This paper will focus on three main styles of leadership including autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire. Transformational leadership is a type a leadership that is very difficult to teach and we will explore the great effects of this type of leadership. Wells and Wells (2010) explain several aspects of leadership that leaders should portray, no matter what style they use. These including :articulating a vision, explaining what is expected of himself or herself as leader as well as what is expected of staff members, providing guidance and mentoring, developing staff members by coaching them one on one, understanding the importance of teamwork,

Nowadays, LVN and LPN are communicative more leadership roles, mostly in the skilled nursing facility. The leadership is based on general research of academic and practitioner on leader ship. Susan de wit (2014) said that there are many identified styles of leadership and laissez-faire is a style in which the leader provide little or none direction or supervisor, and prefer to take a hand off approach. That leadership style is not effective in day-to-day management of patient care. The autocratic leadership style is demonstrated when the leader makes all the decision without considering input form staff. That leadership style goal is accomplishment of task efficiently without regard to people. The democratic leadership style is who encourages

Leaders are not merely those who control others, but act as visionaries who help employees to plan, lead, control, and organize their activities. As states by (Hood, Leddy, & Pepper, 2006), “leadership is a complex term with multiple definitions but is normally defined as a process of influencing others or guiding or directing others to attain mutually agreed upon goals” (as cited by Agnes, 2005). There are several recognized leadership styles such as bureaucratic — where the leader rigidly follows rules, policies, and regulation; or participative — where the leader allows the staff to participate in decision making and seek the

Different situations call for different sorts of leadership styles. A democratic leadership is better where many people's lives are in balance. However, there are exceptions to the rules (Nursing Leadership: Management & Leadership Styles, 2014). Leadership styles like democracy have advantages and disadvantages.

Since they were a new addition I also assigned other staff members with the nurse to allow for the best patient care. Teamwork is essential in healthcare especially with new admitted patients because every person is already piled with work but instead of giving another pile to one person splitting it among them helps it run smoother. The leadership style I think as being the most effective as a charge nurse is democratic. I think Democratic leaders are very effective because they give a voice to their staff. I believe in order to be a great charge nurse you have to put yourself in your staffs shoes. I would want my charge nurse to listen to me and take my opinions seriously. I would want to know that they respected me and that they cared about what I thought. As a leader I would also want to be respected. If I allow my staff to share their opinion on certain decisions I believe they will respect me. I believe they will work harder because they know that I'm hearing them. I would not want to work for somebody that doesn't make me feel a part of the team and nursing is very much a team sport. I do believe my leadership style would change with an emergency

Nurses need to become educated on leadership styles so that they can develop a – leadership style so they can work efficiently in the healthcare field. By using a leadership style quiz, one can get a good idea of what type of leader they are so that they can improve. To determine my personal leadership style, I have chosen two online leadership quizzes.

Nurse leaders are faced with issues or problems on a daily basis that are often expected and sometimes unexpected. It “comes with the territory” so to speak. If there were no issues to solve or hurdles to overcome the necessity of designating a leader would not seem quite as important. Nurse leaders can tackle issues that occur in their work environment using nursing theory to guide them. Nursing theory provides a framework that nurse leaders can use to implement interventions or changes to positively impact the staff they lead. This framework of the theory will set the standards for achieving the desired outcomes and is based on knowledge that is gleaned from practice and/or research.

“Managers with leadership styles that seek and value contributions from staff, promote a climate in which information is shared effectively, promote decision making at the staff nurse level, exert position power, and influence coordination of work to provide a milieu that maintains a stable cadre of nurses”, (Boyle, Bott, Hansen, Woods & Taunton, 2009). This statement describes the large impact a leadership style can make on the work environment, and the morale of the team. In nursing history, several theories and leadership

Often we tend to remember the supervisors that we were the least fond of and then compare their leadership styles to subsequent supervisors thereafter. For me, a former Director of Nursing left a lasting impression. The long-term-care facility that I was working for at the time was undergoing a managerial overhaul with a new administrator and DON as the former administrative team was forced into retirement after providing 50 years of service. The new DON was a nurse with a very impressive resume and an Authoritarian leadership style (Blais & Hayes, 2011) that was apparent early on. She gained control over her team by the use of fear. For example, it was not uncommon to get a telephone call on your weekend off – demanding you report to work