After reviewing the module content, I gained valuable information and enhanced my vision of “Nursing Leadership.” I have always believed that nursing leaders hold enormous influence on how healthcare is implemented in everyday patient care by ensuring the highest quality using best practices and in the cost effective manner. Present health care systems is undergoing many changes and faces multiple challenges; as result, it experiences an increased need to educate, recruit, and retain great nursing leaders. Effective leadership is critical in delivering high-quality and safe care as well as facilitating positive staff development. Nursing leaders are resilient professional role models. They should display creativity, empathy, and curiosity. They have to be life-long learners, advocates for patients and colleagues, empowerment and support for others. Also, one of the character traits that often is overlooked is emotional intelligence, which is ability to distinguish and monitor personal emotions, as well as, emotions of other people. According to Tyczkowski research, high-level emotional intelligence leaders bring out the best in members of the organization, drive emotions in a positive manner, connect with others at an emotional level, and make work more meaningful, and in doing so, the leader uses his or her positive emotions to motivate others and enable the vision of the organization to be enacted through job performance. (2015)

I enjoy working with democratic and laissez-fair leaders, though I think this leader behavior style is not always applicable in certain situations and with certain people; for instance, “active shooter” emergency. I believe democratic and laissez-fair behavior as a leader is successful because setting up realistic goals, providing tools to accomplish them, and monitor progress gives nurses feeling of involvement in decision making and responsibility to achieve goals. Also, we as a team recognize importance and value targets, as well as, we feel satisfied with results.

References

Rigolosi, E. (2005). Management and Leadership in Nursing and Health Care: An Experimental Approach (2nd Ed), Spinger Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com.exproxy.fhsu.edu:2048/lib/docID=423601

Tyczkowski, B., Vandenhouten, C., Janet Reilly, J., Bansal, G., Kubsch, & Jakkola, R. (2015).  Emotional Intelligence and Nursing Leadership Styles Among Nurse Managers. Nurs Admin Q. Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 172–180