Category: Leadership

  • Organizational Structure: Project Leadership

    Drug to Drug Interactions Drug to drug interactions are among the major causes of medicine-induced harm in patients with various diseases. According to recent statistics, the problem occurs in over 1.9 million of individuals annually and results in up to 220.000 emergency department referrals per year (Scheife et al., 2015). Therefore, not only it is…

  • Effect of Transformational Leadership on Job Satisfaction and Patient Safety

    Table of Contents Introduction Attainment of Low Scores Leadership Dynamics Change Model Course of Action Conclusion References Introduction Customer service, otherwise known as the patient satisfaction, has become a critical benchmark of modern healthcare. It is helpful from a business and reputation perspective while strongly contributing to positive patient outcomes. Management in the industry has…

  • The Role of Leadership in Nursing

    Introduction Leadership qualities are essential for any professional, especially in the medical industry where the primary concern is the health of people. According to Saxena, Desanghere, Stobart, and Walker (2017), the important aspect of leadership is the intentional influence a person has on others. Additionally, one must understand the importance of constant improvement, especially in…

  • Organizational Systems & Quality Leadership: National Quality Initiatives

    Table of Contents Understanding of nursing-sensitive indicators Analysis of hospital data Analysis of system resources, referrals, and colleagues References Nursing-sensitive indicators refer to the processes, outcomes, and structures that are applied in nursing in order to provide quality nursing care to patients. The nursing care structures are dependent on whether there are adequate and potential…

  • Effective Leadership for Graduate Nurses and Quiz Results

    Effective leadership in any organization has major value for the establishment of its image and success. In healthcare facilities, leadership is extremely important since peoples welfare and even lives depend on the leaders decisions and actions. At every level of the healthcare process, there are people who organize and sustain the best quality of services.…

  • Nursing Leadership Traits and Strategies

    Leadership Traits for Successful Management in the Clinical Arena Leadership is not simply a role one is forced to take on at his/her work; it is always a choice that distinguishes a born leader from a regular employee. Regarding the sphere of nursing, successful nurse leaders are those who engage others to work together effectively…

  • Leadership Aspects in Nursing Practice

    Changes in Health Care Delivery and Nursing System New approaches to the service delivery introduced the well-developed systems to monitor the performance. In this instance, the nurses have to be well-organized to provide services and expand the area of their operations. In turn, the new approaches of leadership improve the quality of communication and highlight…

  • Being a Successful Leader: Leadership Style and the Graduate Nursing Role

    In order to provide the best patient care in the increasingly complex healthcare settings, todays nurses are expected to possess the attributes of leadership and be aware of leadership practices related to their field. It is true for nurses in administrative positions, but it is also true for nurses who are at the beginning of…

  • Leadership Perspectives: Transactional and Transformational

    Abstract Transformational and transactional leadership theories represent two most popular approaches to leadership. Transactional leadership is the most widespread as far as it is connected with the organization of the working process, goal setting, and extrinsic motivation. The aim of the transformational leader is to promote intrinsic motivation. Transformational leaders pay attention to emotions and…

  • Leadership and the Graduate Nurse Role

    Leadership Style Leadership and its attributes are extremely important for many spheres of human activity and nursing is no exception. Within the frame of the assignment, we were supposed to complete a short quiz in order to define our leadership styles and know more about merits and flaws of our approaches to leading the group…