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Signature Assignment Title: What Makes a Good Leader?
Signature Assignment Description/Directions:
Choose one or more leadership topic(s) from your textbook or from a scholarly source from a previous discussion or assignment from this course and write about its application to nursing practice. Provide definitions, history/background, and major concepts of chosen topic. Describe the topic’s function in nursing practice by examining at least three different nursing roles (for example, bedside nurse, public health nurse, CNO, unit manager, etc.). Discuss how the leadership topic can be used in your own practice. Discuss your personal growth in regard to your chosen leadership topic. Evaluate personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your career advancement.
Then, discuss the top three traits you feel makes a good nurse leader. Support your statements with examples from your practice experience and scholarly sources.
Assignment Expectations:
Length: 1750 to 2000 words in length
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three scholarly sources plus the textbook are required.
Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level.
Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or a PDF document (.pdf)
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Nursing Leadership and Management
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Introduction
The significance of nursing in the healthcare industry cannot be underestimated.
Certainly, nurses are the backbone of the US healthcare industry, and it is the most tedious and
risk occupation across the world. The nurses receive training to help the specialists to offer their
care to the patient. Unlike the other practitioners in the healthcare industry, the nurses spend the
most time with the patients. In other words, the nurses create effective care for the patients to
recover. They provide mental, psychological, and physical care to the patients to promote their
recovery. The nurse leaders must remain a step ahead to promote collaboration with the nurses
to facilitate the achievement of the set goals. In the broader view, they direct and lead the nurses
on how to deliver quality, safe, culturally competent, and holistic care to the patient that aligns
with only organizational visions and goals but also commensurate with the established quality
standards in the entire healthcare system (Marshall, & Broome, 2017). Effective leadership
motivates the nursing practitioners to work and provide holistically to the patients and educate
the public about preventive care. Leadership involves coming up with a vision and influencing
other people to follow the laid down vision. Leaders are involved in providing the direction,
implementing a plan, and motivating the people they lead. Effective leadership plays a crucial
role in achieving organizational goals. In nursing, the management should adopt the right
leadership style to achieve organizational goals efficiently (Marshall & Broome, 2017).
Invariably, the nurse leaders should possess the transformational leadership skills to steer the
nursing department towards exceeding the organizational, community, and legal expectations.
leadership topic
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As illustrated earlier, leadership entails coming up with a vision and influencing other
people to achieve it. An effective leader is involved in providing the direction implementing a
plan and leading in the desired direction. Nurse leaders foster a collaborative environment where
the nurses work as one team to meet the patients’ needs more effectively and efficiently.
Effective leadership plays a crucial role in achieving organizational goals and system-wide goals.
The nurses’ leaders need to understand various leadership concepts, including transformational
leadership and human resource management. Transformational leadership is one of the
leadership traits that has shown to be very effective in healthcare organizations. Marshall, &
Broome, (2017) outline that nurses are involving in conducting routine checkup on the patients
especially when the vital signs pretends to have disappeared. The healthcare environment is
becoming increasingly dynamic with the implem...
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