Free Nursing Dissertations - With Reference To Leadership Developments In Health Care And The Leadership
With reference to leadership developments in health care and the leadership theories prepare a critical analysis outline of your own leadership approach within your current professional role.
INTRODUCTION
In this essay I will discuss leadership issues in nursing management within the context of my current professional role. In this analysis, I will follow several steps in leadership in accordance with leadership theories and approaches to leadership developments in health care. The context of my leadership approach pertains to my current professional position as Senior Staff Nurse Surgical Department, Hospital Setting. My position entails reporting/ being accountable to the Nurse Manager and my job as a senior nurse manager in the surgical team involves working with consultants, junior nurses and students.
I identify two types of leadership according to leadership theories: Situational leadership (Hersey et al 1996) and Action centred leadership (Adair 1978/1982). In this essay, which would be rather a self report, I will provide a critical analysis of leadership approaches to nurse management and evaluate my own leadership approach and the relevance of leadership theories considering leadership research studies in nursing.
The focus would be on three major issues -
Change management or working with change in the hospital setting
Providing leadership to hospital students and striking a balance between the needs of the patients and the students
Delegation or distribution of work arrangement to different supporting staff to maintain patient care plan
Leadership and Management
Situational leadership refers to a useful business leadership model and is applicable in situations when the leader can adopt different leadership styles depending on the demands of the situation. Hersey et al (1996) characterised leadership styles according to the direction and support provide by a leader and thus leadership can either be directive or supportive or involve supporting, delegating, directing or coaching. The model is also complemented by another model of development which suggests that leadership styles should be driven by the competence and commitment of the follower or subordinate (Hersey, Blanchard, 1996). Hersey et al (1996) has focused on the idea that leadership styles of directing, supporting, coaching, or delegating should correspond to the level of competence of the subordinate worker.
Adair's (1978/1982) Action centred leadership model indicates that there are three parts to leadership and this involves - achieving the task, managing teams and managing individuals.
