NURS 6053 Discussion 1: Leadership Theories in Practice

NURS 6053 Discussion 1: Leadership Theories in Practice

A nurse is expected to work in a healthy environment that ensures satisfaction, safety, and empowerment, thus translating to quality care. A successful leadership transformation can be described by goal-oriented, emotional intellect, focus, and passion (Suratno, 2018). Additionally, emotional intellect effectively guides a leader in demonstrating wisdom and familiarity through conscious drive control. A positive working environment can be achieved through clarity, behavioral integrity, self-awareness, and honesty (Suratno, 2018). The purpose of this discussion is to address the critical insights on leadership from scholarly resources and describe the behaviors and skills showing where they are used in practice.

Two Key Insights from the Scholarly Sources

Leadership is considered a dynamic outcome that involves collective activities thus helps in building networks and relationships. In this way, leadership creates an environment for new knowledge that can be co-created rather than just implemented through the top leader plan. According to Sfantou et al. (2017), the leadership skills that I have gained key insight is on motivating people this can help overcome challenges such as shortage of healthcare workers. Therefore, leaders should protect psychological, social, safety, and esteem needs. In addition, finding meaningful individual rewards motivates workers or staff to perform better.

Leadership behaviors such as transformational leadership help create a healthy working environment for nurses, thus empowering and helping in showing commitment. Transformation leadership relates to the ability to inspire confidence and helps the staff communicate loyalty, which strengthens employee morale (Sfantou et al., 2017). Transactional leadership helps make exchanges with employees, thus leading to improved production.

Observed Leadership Skills and Behaviors and Extent the Practice was Effective

I have seen where behavior and skills are used in practice within our organization. The behavior and skills have helped create a healthy working condition, thus overcoming the shortage of healthcare workers within our organization (Kapur, 2018). The management engages the staff and nurse to ensure their need and the reason that makes them feel like quitting employment, which leads to effective addressing of the issue, thus creating a good working environment. The extent to which the leadership skills and behavior were practical helped recognize the management mistakes that lead to nurse burnout. The skills also effectively inspired and motivated nurses to change their behaviors.

References

Kapur, R.(2018). Leadership Theories and Practices. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323794733_Leadership_Theories_and_Practices

Sfantou, D. F., Laliotis, A., Patelarou, A. E., Sifaki-Pistolla, D., Matalliotakis, M., & Patelarou, E. (2017, December). A systematic review is the importance of leadership style towards the quality of care measures in healthcare settings. In Healthcare (Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 73). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. https://www.mdpi.com/230004