NURSING LEADERSHIP IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

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May 3, 2011

Introduction

In nursing management, leadership styles remains significant and crucial for the development of effective nursing service delivery team that is aimed at the satisfaction of the clients needs. Through leadership model there is empowerment by instilling principles of care aimed at improvement of their patient care and hence achievement of institutional objective as so far as nursing service delivery is concerned. The leadership principles provide a leadership background to the staff to enable the develop effective accountability, decision making skills and professionalism in their duty and service delivery.

Success in leadership development depends on element of sharing authority accountability and communicating effectively to the subordinate staff and involving them I multiple tasks concerning improvement of the nursing services. Nursing leaders play an important role in innovation and mentoring of the nursing staff by ensuring his leadership has an impact on many and is accepted by his team members. She incorporates her staff through effective communication and discussion of the problems facing the organization and how she or he intends to solve them, she or he listens for the opinion of others before making the final decision .the decision made is then communicated to the staff who are then equipped with the necessary skills needed to affect change and lead the organization towards change (Sully & Dallas, 2005).

Health care system leadership remains a challenge to the nurse leader since its composed of subsystem characterized by complexity and fragmentation with an aim of delivering quality health care to its clients who are the patients. In this context of quality services then leadership, effective