Nursing and leadership

In the nursing industry, both of these personalities are demanded following the tight demands involved in this industry. This paper analyzes the roles of leadership and management, leadership styles and theories as well as how to develop the qualities of a good leader in the nursing industry. Qualities of a successful leader in nursing In nursing, leadership is a key ingredient for the formation of a rigid nursing body in a hospital setting. It allows acute policymaking criteria which blend with the conventional caring skills based on compassion Integrity For a leader to become successful in their endeavors, they need to manifest the quality of being honest. Without this quality, the degree of success in their organization is highly questionable. As such, mismanagement of the nursing unit might be the lead to catastrophic results leading to loss of life and untimely delays in hospital beds before getting cured.

As such, managers in the nursing department ought to manifest the following qualities. Organized and time conscious A good nursing manager should be organized. Concerning the inflexibility of the roles of nurses, a manager should be able to organize themselves in the workplace. Nurses work on complex shifts each with the consent that they may be needed at work at any time. The leadership style I would like to emulate is the transformational leadership style. Transformational Leadership Style As the name sounds, a transformational leader is always bound to improving according to the management’s conventions. On this light, nurses might be set to perform certain tasks and objectives to be done in a certain time range. While still working on them, they are being pushed to work more for the benefit of the hospital, the patients as well as themselves since they would get paid extra for the extra effort applied.

This pushing helps in keeping subordinate nurses out of their comfort zones (Cummings et al. Respectful I have always been respectful not only to the higher management and my colleagues but also to the patients and their families. Being respectful to patients and their families have always been promising to the hospital since it helps in attaining a good and positive public image for the hospital I work for. Being respectful to my colleagues and subordinate has always been a good method of forming and maintaining reciprocated respect from them. Also, it helps in ironing professional relationships between me, the higher management, colleagues and my subordinates. Apart from these super qualities I own as a leader in the nursing field, I also have some qualities which impede my effectiveness as a leader.

The behavioral theory is rather easy to assess as it works on individual behavior to the success achieved. You only need to assess the deeds of a leader as compared to the attained levels of success either on the leader or to an organization (Gottfredson & Aguinis 2017). In nursing, the behavioral theory applies where a manager or leader manifests some traits which lead to the success of the organization. Therefore, individual behavior is an imperative indicator of the degree of leadership inherent to the leader. Its also important to note that in nursing, these traits can be developed through the daily activities to perfect the qualities a leader has on their teams. Carpenter, M. The new managerialism and professionalism in nursing. In Health and the Division of Labour (pp.