Module 4: Effective Nursing Leadership

Efficient Leadership

is the ability to minimize time and use of resources in achieving organizational objectives which will yield maximum output.

Effective Leadership

ability to determine appropriate objectives for the group or organization to ensure.

Traditional Leadership

good leaders get results primarily by directing people and getting their cooperation; build good followers and get people to understand good ideas.

New Leadership Style

leader’s role at all levels be transformed from order-giver and warlord to resource person and colleague.

Warlord

only gives order similar to an autocratic leader.

Resource Person

proves him to be co-equal of his subordinates or the people he leads.

21st Century Health Care Organization Leaders

committed to promoting team effectiveness; know how to gather, sort, structure information, and connect in new ways to create clear objectives.

Nursing Leadership

is a multidisciplinary process where the learned and inherited characters of the leader is combined with situational, interactional, goal directed dimensions.

1. Leaders and Group

2. Leadership Theories

3. Organization

three levels of leadership model.

Nursing Leadership Model

nurses are on the front lines and have the power to influence sustainable outcomes and productivity making an impact in patient care.

Dynamic Leader-Follower Relationship Model

best for nurses; new nurses develop basic leadership principles by leader interaction.

Nurse Leaders’ Tool Kit

a nurse has the power to transform people’s lives; they are not just bosses but leaders strengthening the heartbeat.

1. Vision

2. Personality

3. Performance

4. People’s Motivation and Capability

components of leadership.

Vision

lays down their purpose.

Personality

which affects the personal leadership style adopted.

Performance

measures the effectiveness of leadership.

People’s Motivation and Capability

determines the kind of followers a leader has that could affect his leadership.

1. Creative and visionary

2. Communicates effectively

3. Continues to learn

4. Helps others to learn

5. Delivers results

nurse leader is a leader that:

1. Understanding of individual strengths, weaknesses, and potentials

2. Knowledge of basic ingredients for leadership and management

3. Systematic use of self to get the right things done at the right time

three formula that creates effective leadership and management.