Nursing Leadership Priorities

Nursing Leadership Priorities.

Introduction.

Working through and with others is an essential issue in any set up involving service provision like in the nursing field. Nurses are leaders in the care of patients from the fact that leadership is an essential part of the efficient nursing care. They do that by their collaborative role in managing the patient care. They coordinate, motivate and spearhead the health care teams, patients and families in enhancing the nursing service provision. With all this in consideration, various priorities exist to be taken into co0nsideration to ensure the nursing leader execute his or her roles promptly. This article explains the priorities of the nursing leadership.

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Sherman recognizes the challenging nature of the nursing leadership concerning planning in the healthcare setups. It is therefore essential for making up of mind on strategies to be implemented to see nursing care fruitful. From their research, the author recognizes various essential factors that are of priority to nursing leadership.

The author sees the need of the nursing leadership to give priority to ensuring that each patient can receive high standards of care at all times in all acre setups. She focusses on the maintenance of standards of care in all the care centers. This is targeted at the procedures and processes that are carried out in the ambulatory and urgent care set up where the service provision may be overtaken by its urgency up to the extent the standards of care provision are not observed. If the nursing leadership assumes these procedures, the standard may get low, yet they are key areas of life reservation hence need to chip in and follow them to ensure quality care is provided to all patients in all units of care.

Moreover, the nursing executives have to put nurses’ shortage on their top list. The author has to get ready for the probable shortage of the nursing staff because the nursing care demand keeps on increasing and there is the possibility of their shortage. When prioritized, the nurse leaders can curb the development of the crisis in providing care to patients.

The nursing leadership also involves an early vision on the modification of the nursing care staff. This is done by having a prior view of the care that will not only be required at the time of employing the staff but the needs that may arise late on. The nurse employed have to be dynamic, competent and hardworking to modify his or her work output as per the needs in the area of practice.

Another priority that needs to be considered by the nursing leadership is obtaining a consensus on the management of clinics. This distribution must not be based on the output required from the stuff but need to be with the goal aiming at placing each nurse in their areas of specialty to ensure quality care is offered.

Sherman also recognizes the cost control without cutting the labor by the workers as a priority that nursing leadership has to take care of. This cost control needs to stretch to the patient care protocols, waste of the supplies, less care for the hospital inventories and unfavorable contract of staff as well as equipment. In addition to the priorities stated, nursing executives need to bring out the concept of care continuity in patient care rather than discharging patients in their healthcare setting.

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On the other hand, Fleiszer et al., 2016 give nursing leadership a different view that will prompt their prioritized activities. They recognize the impact of the nurse leaders to the nursing staff and their practices. In this study, they monitored and described the actions of the unit leaders and their influence on the sustainability of the guidelines in the long-term period among the nurses. This brings the nursing leadership to prioritize their servant leadership in the healthcare set up. This will then translate to the action of the primary nurses to ensure quality care is provided to all the patients.

The study determines the various areas that the nursing leaders must take into account in guiding his team. The nurse leader must coach and mentor his nurses and curb the limited knowledge on enduring changes and embrace in the end encompassing the manner in which the team leaders in the nursing provision to influence the practices that take time to be incorporated into the systems. All this can take place when the nursing leader is on the frontline to practice and show the desired changes to the rest of the staff members. This makes the servant leadership to be prioritized to ensure a standardized form of care in the entire unit and for a long time.

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This articles, however, places all the priorities of the nursing leaders on the efforts directed towards the fiscal responsibility and the operational effectiveness. According to the authors, nursing leadership needs to put other issues aside and concentrate on the two matters as they form key areas of the healthcare management. It is through these areas that matter that the leadership places judgment on various things that are essential to the running of the healthcare set up. It is through this prioritization that the nurse may also eliminate various things in their unit operations to only remain with the useful strategies.

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