Category: Leadership

  • Leadership Dimensions for Graduate Nurses

    Introduction Organizing effective leadership is of outstanding importance for any organization. However, in healthcare institutions leaders play a more vital role than anywhere else because people’s lives and well-being depend on these leaders’ decisions. At all levels of the healthcare process, there are leaders who arrange and maintain the highest quality of services performed by…

  • Leadership Responsibilities of an Instructional Technologist

    Instructional technology plays a significant role in leadership across k-12 public learning institutions. Instructional technologists educate teachers and other staff on integrating technology into actual life practice and assessing learning. Schools can have diverse instructional technologists, including superintendents, digital literacy coordinators, school principals, or other staff members conversant with learning technology. The primary role of…

  • Graduate Nurses’ Required Leadership Attributes

    Graduate nurses need certain attributes to perform optimally in their work. These attributes include self-awareness, accountability, time management, and social awareness (Finkelman & Kenner, 2010). Self-awareness means the proper understanding of one’s emotions and their effects on oneself and other people. Graduate nurses need to understand their emotions in order to deal with situations in…

  • Motivation Types and Leadership Styles in Nursing

    Internal and External Motivation Factors Categories Extrinsic (external) Intrinsic (internal) Job Content Characteristics 1) Challenging nature of work, 2) Opportunity of advance, 3) Explicit goals, 4) Effective performance appraisal, 5) Task significance. 1) Meaningful work, 2) Compliance with personal goals, 3) Creativity opportunities, 4) Sense of competence, 5) Increasing work effectiveness. Work Environment 1) Supportive…

  • Leadership: The Key Principle in Nursing

    The healthcare system requires managerial strategies to deliver the services proposed effectively. Medical practitioners have the role of caring for their patients and ensuring that they reach the intended goal, which is patient recovery. In doing so, there are strategies and schemes that they have to adhere to in actualizing their roles in the institutions.…

  • “Nursing Leadership Practices as Perceived by Finnish Nursing Staff”

    Table of Contents Introduction Article Summary Analysis Conclusion References Introduction The present paper provides a summary and analysis of the article by Eneh et al (2012), titled “Nursing Leadership Practices as Perceived by Finish Nursing Staff: High Ethics, Less Feedback and Rewards”, in terms of scholarly writing demonstrated by the authors, bias, opinions, quality of…

  • Transformational Leadership and Its Role in Nursing

    Leadership is the ability to absorb knowledge and apply it in current work in such a way as to motivate others not to turn the work process into a routine, but to seek and find those methods and means of execution that lead to the best result of the whole process. Healthcare must keep pace…

  • The Leadership in Nursing and Clinical Organizations

    Introduction In every situation within the organization, the aspect of leadership is an essential element for the attainment of the organization goals (Alban-Metcalfe & Alimo-Metcalfe, 2000, p.159). One can best understand clinical leadership when its knowledge and insights are founded on the theoretical perspective or those paradigms that are particular to Clinical leadership. Developing leadership…

  • Professional Nursing Practice and Leadership: Critical Pathways

    Table of Contents Management Model: Managed- Care Critical Pathways Leadership Style: Transformational Leadership Management concepts: Charge Nurse Reference List Management Model: Managed- Care Critical Pathways Managed-care critical pathways are crucial for professional nursing practice and leadership. These are frameworks that facilitate coordination of teamwork and streamline service delivery. Significance of the care pathways is realized…

  • Shared Leadership in Nursing Settings

    Table of Contents Introduction Background and Significance PICOT, Evidence Review Questions, and Timeline Search Strategy References Introduction Different approaches to leadership exist, and their appropriate use in healthcare is critical. Among other things, surgical settings need suitable leadership approaches (Aufegger, Shariq, Bicknell, Ashrafian, & Darzi, 2019). Shared leadership (SL) presupposes a horizontal approach to leadership,…