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As a resource person and co-equal of her followers, the leader in a

Effective Nursing Leadership
“Successful nursing leadership depends on a relationship that is mutually
stimulating both for the leaders and the followers.“
• Nurses educate patients and families and act as liaisons to
physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, administrators, and many
others in an increasingly complex health care system.
health care delivery system communicates in an atmosphere
where a reaching organization objective is a shared responsibility.
2. The responsibility is spread over all the stakeholders: the nurse,
physician, patient, community, pharmaceutical companies and
everyone involved in health care, whether provider or end-user.
3. This is because the landscape of health care organization will
become more decentralized.

• As nurses, they are the first primary contact of the patient who
seeks health care. Factors such as the quality of patient care, staff • In 21st century health care organizations, leaders
morale and effective nursing leadership exist to provide care to the
patient and are directly related to each other. 1. Are committed to promoting team effectiveness;

• They do not exist in a vacuum. Each has to be fully satisfied to 2. Know how to gather, sort, structure information, and then connect
ensure continued service. it in new ways to create clear objectives that satisfy both the
organization and the individual needs
EFFICIENCY VERSUS EFFECTIVENESS
3. Listens to colleagues and collaborators to come up with a shared
• Efficient leadership is the ability to minimize time and use of consensus
resources in achieving organizational objectives which will yield
maximum output.
• It is doing things right the first time. • Nursing leadership is a multidimensional process where the
• It is more concerned with the 7 m's: money, men, machine, learned and inherited characteristics of the leader is combined with
materials, method, moment, manager as gauge to accomplish task situational, interactional, goal directed dimensions of the first three
as expected. levels of leadership theories.
• Effectiveness, on the other hand, is the ability to determine
appropriate objectives for the group or organization to ensure • It is also the process that is used to move a group toward goal
appropriate and accurate results. setting and goal achievement in the provision of nursing care for
• It is concerned with output or results of performance. patients.
• It is doing the right thing at the right time.
NURSE LEADERS' TOOL KIT
Effective Leadership
• A nurse has the power to transform
• Effective leadership understands individual strengths, weaknesses
people's lives.
and potential.
• It is knowledge of the basic ingredients of leadership and • They are not just bosses but leaders
management. strengthening the heartbeat.
• It is also the systematic use of self to get the right things done at
the right time and right results • Leadership has many components:
• Effective leaders generate higher productivity, lower costs, and
more opportunities than ineffective leaders. 1. Vision (mission, values) - which lays down their purpose
• Effective leaders create results, attain goals, realize vision, and 2. Personality (self-awareness and situational fit) - which affects the personal
other objectives more quickly and at a higher level of quality than leadership style adopted.
ineffective leaders.
• Effective leadership is honest and credible. They do not tolerate 3. Performance (culture, strategy, effective change) - which measures the
dishonesty nor do they engage in it. They create an environment for effectiveness of leadership
everyone where honesty is a prized human quality. 4. People's motivation and capability - which determines the kind of
follower/s a leader has that could affect his leadership.

21ST CENTURY NURSING LEADERSHIP • A nurse leader is a leader that

• Traditionally, good leaders get results primarily by directing 1. Has the ability to influence others in the achievement of goals of the
people and setting their cooperation. They build good followers organization
and get people to understand good ideas. 2. Understands and is committed to the organization,
3. Is creative and visionary
• The new leadership style requires that the leader’s role at all levels 4. Has high professional and ethical standards of conduct
be transformed from Order-giver and warlord to resource person 5. Communicates effectively
6. Knows and practices good management
and colleague (Simmons & Mares, 1984).
7. Works well with others
8. Believes that technical skills and subject matter expertise is important
• As a warlord, he only gives orders similar to an autocratic reader.
9. Continuous to learn
But as a resource person, the leader proves him to be co-equal his
subordinates or the people he leads. 10. Helps others to learn
11. Is warm, responsive and fun to work with
• The growing trend for leaders is to use the concepts of shared and 12. Has professional presence and confidence
participatory leadership. 13. Is strategic and non-judgmental
14. Delivers result