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LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT MODULE 1 | REVIEWER | BATCH 2023 MEDALLO, A.

References:

• Nursing PowerPoint (FEU Version)

• Lecture Notes

OUTLINE

1. Three Primary Responsibilities

2. Key Concept Overview

3. Leadership vs. Management

4. Leadership Behavior (Styles)

WHAT IS INVOLVED IN NURSING LEADERSHIP?

As the role of the nurse transformed from a doctor's assistant to an integral member of the life-saving team, the nurse leader role emerged. It is the job of the nurse leader to guide nurses and ensure that they are adhering to high standards of quality and safety.

WHY DOES NURSING LEADERSHIP MATTER?

• to bring individual nurses together as a team. Without nurse leaders, individual nurses would carry on with their jobs independently and would likely miss key opportunities for communication, growth and education. By bringing the treatment team together, nurse leaders verify that each nurse is obeying the same high standards of quality and safety.

• if the nursing team is not following certain protocols, the nurse leader takes this opportunity to educate the entire team about the proper methods. It is normal for employees to become complacent and cut corners as they become more comfortable in their roles. However, it is the nurse leader's job to ensure that this complacency and comfort does not morph into dangerous habits or poor quality of care.

• maintain the rigorous standards of care that patients and their families come to expect from exemplary healthcare facilities. Nurse leaders bridge the gap between policy and practice by ensuring that all members of a team are obeying safety protocols.

Nurse Leaders Have Three Primary Responsibilities.

1. ENSURING SAFE DELIVER OF CARE

   • must be intimately familiar with the safety standards and protocols of the medical profession and their healthcare facility

   • expected to supervise members of the nursing team to guarantee that all patients receive safe care.

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   Leadership and Management

   Motivation and Moral Development

   • Three key principles involved:

     • Relationship: Connection between people

     • Mutual: Something in common is shared

     • Collaborator: Work together

   Power

   • Capacity to affect behavior of others

   • Ability to impose the will of one person or group to bring about certain behaviors in other persons or groups

   • Sources of Power:

     • Legitimate Power:

       • Stems from a position's placement in the managerial hierarchy and the authority vested in the position

       • Power vested due to the position he occupies in the organization

       • Examples: Director of Nursing Service, Supervisor, Head Nurse

     • Reward Power:

       • Based on the capacity to control and provide valued rewards to others for compliance with leader's orders or request

       • Examples: Pay rise, bonuses, promotion, better office, interesting projects

     • Coercive Power:

       • Depends on the ability to punish others when they do not engage in desired behavior or non-compliance with the manager's order

       • Examples: Criticisms, reprimands, suspension, negative performance appraisals, demotion, terminations

     • Expert Power:

       • Based on the possession of expertise that is valued by others

       • Determined by the knowledge, skills, and special ability demonstrated by the individual

     • Referent Power:

       • Results from being admired, personally identified with, or liked by others

       • Associated with personality and strength of character

       • Examples: Respect, Nurse who is consistently supportive or helpful

   Leadership vs. Management

   • Leadership:

     • Motto: Do the right things

     • Challenge: Change

     • Focus: Purposes

     • Time frame: Future