Leadership and Management Attributes

Leadership and Management Attributes

Whereas leadership details an individual’s ability to motivate, enable, and influence others toward the attainment of organizational goals and objectives, management entails controlling others toward organizational goals. These two attributes confer dual benefits to the organization as they enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. The result is often evident in increased output and consequent productivity. It is, therefore, every organization’s dream to possess members with better leadership and management attributes. This memo seeks to highlight leadership and management attributes for nurse leaders as well as describe how transformational leadership style can influence the investigational process of a professional nurse colleague reporting to one of the unit managers.

Various leadership and management attributes define nurse leaders. These attributes include but are not limited to good communication capabilities, accountability, integrity, empathy, and agility. Good communication capabilities are key to any nurse leader. Good communication capabilities encompass relentless communication of organizational goals, active listening, illustrations of the subject matter being communicated, and affirmations of agreeable actions (Aij & Teunissen, 2017). The significance of better communication in ensuring the effectiveness of organizational operations underpins its necessity within the organization.

Accountability requires that every nurse leader always remain accountable for their actions. Accountability will ensure that the individual takes full responsibility for whichever decision and actions they are taking. This often enhances an individual’s input and consequent increase in output. Integrity, on the other hand, requires that the leader does the right thing always. This entails sticking to organizational goals as well as maintaining honesty during the work process and in both internal and external communications. Inculcating the attribute of integrity not only raises the spirits and work morale of members within the organization but also ensures that all actions are in concert with the organizational objectives. 

Empathy defines the ability of the leader to understand their subjects. An empathetic leader will always lend a listening ear to their subjects. The significance of empathy is that it enables the leader to pick issues related to their subjects that may impede their work efficiency and effectiveness (Heinen et al., 2019). Also, leaders should be agile. Agility defines flexibility towards the client’s demands. The clients are major stakeholders within the organization, and their input in enhancing efficiency is necessary. An agile leader will always be flexible towards this while maintaining their responsibility in safeguarding the interests of the organization (Aij & Teunissen, 2017). All these attributes are enablers of success within the organization. They help in improving client outcomes satisfactorily.

In the wake of the incident involving the professional nurse and the client, an investigational process involving data collection is necessary. In this regard, the following steps will be taken to adequate data collection. The unit manager will request the affected nurse to write a report regarding this incident, detailing the events that may have led to this unfortunate incident. Additionally, departmental members who may have been present within that shift will as well be required to report witness accounts to the unit leader. An independent investigational authority will be sought after to determine what may have transpired during the incident. The affected nurse will be required to face a review board to determine her competency as well as her leadership and management skills. All these actions are targeted at ensuring that the data collection process becomes successful.

A transformational leadership style is a leadership form that is aimed at inspiring the leader’s subjects to positivity. A transformative leader will influence, motivate, and inspire their subjects towards their vision. In investigating the incident involving the professional nurse and the client, transformational leadership will be targeted towards ensuring that the affected nurse is inspired towards a positive change. This may, however, present some difficulty in the investigational process due to the expected tone and stance that the leadership may have on the nurse (Berkovich, 2016). Transformative leadership often gives second chances, and their actions are based not on the intrinsic nature of the involved subject but on the vision that they want to instill in the individual. A consequence of transformational leadership in this scenario may be a less detailed investigational process.

Leadership and management maintain significance in organizational success. Their utility in enhancing the work process and consequent productivity underpins their significance. It is, therefore, every nurse’s responsibility to acquire and inculcate into their practice these attributes. Transformational leadership is one of the leadership styles. It may, however, not be ideal in investigational incidences that involve the subjects and may be devastating to them.

 References

Aij, K. H., & Teunissen, M. (2017). Lean leadership attributes A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 31(7/8), 713–729. https://doi.org/10.1108/jhom-12-2016-0245

Berkovich, I. (2016). School leaders and transformational leadership theory: Time to part ways? Journal of Educational Administration, 54(5), 609–622. https://doi.org/10.1108/jea-11-2015-0100s

Heinen, M., Oostveen, C., Peters, J., Vermeulen, H., & Huis, A. (2019). An integrative review of leadership competencies and attributes in Advanced Nursing Practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(11), 2378–2392. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14092

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Leadership and Management Attributes
Competency
Evaluate leadership and management attributes that support critical decisions for nursing practice.

Scenario
You have recently started a position as a department director with five managers reporting to you. Earlier today, one of your managers reported that a client expired on her unit. She suspects that a factor that may have contributed to the client’s demise may be related to the actions of a nurse on her unit. This nurse has several notes in her personnel file that reflect potential client abuse. You and the nurse manager both have concerns that this sentinel event must be investigated.

Leadership and Management Attributes

Later in the day, the Chief Nursing Officer asks you to speak to new nurse managers to share attributes of leadership with the plan of enhancing their leadership skills. You see an opportunity to combine the situation of the client with a bad outcome due to the alleged influence of one of the nurses while building information to share this real-life situation with new nurse leaders.

Instructions
As a follow-up to the investigation of the client’s unexpected death, generate an internal memo to your managers to reflect leadership and management attributes and include steps taken to investigate this unfortunate situation. As you create this memo, keep in mind that you should include:

At least five leadership and/or management attributes for nurse leaders, as well as how they can improve client outcomes.
Steps you would take to ensure the collection of data regarding this incident.
Describe how transformational leadership style may influence the process of investigating this professional nurse colleague who reports to one of your unit managers.