Assignment: Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management
Hi, We need other assignment this week Assignment name is "Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management". Pls write essay based on USA nursing industry. Here is the assignment details In this assignment, you will be writing 825 word essay describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following: 1) Select an issue from the following list: nursing shortage and nurse turn-over, nurse staffing ratios, unit closures and restructuring, use of contract employees (i.e., registry and travel nurses), continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction, and magnet designation. 2) Compare and contrast how you would expect nursing leaders and managers to approach your selected issue. Support your rationale by using the theories, principles, skills, and roles of the leader versus manager described in your readings. 3) Identify the approach that best fits your personal and professional philosophy of nursing and explain why the approach is suited to your personal leadership style. 4) Use at least two references other than your text and those provided in the course. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Assignment: Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management
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Nursing is traditionally the backbone of health care. However, increased dissatisfaction with the profession and the reduced number of enrolment in nursing courses indicates that the profession is under threat. The current supply of nurses is unable to meet the demand for health care in hospitals across America. Shortage and high turnover also attributed to the decreased socially construed value for nursing as a viable profession, poor working conditions such as forced overtime, insufficient training and work related stress which result in burnout. Shortage in the US is expected to intensify due to the increasing number of aging nurses and it is estimated that by 2020 eight hundred thousand nursing positions will be vacant. The problem is likely to intensify further because it is unlikely that the US will be able to fill these positions considering the current situation (Highmark Foundation, 2009). In addressing these problems, nurse leaders and managers would employ differing tactics to achieve positive health outcomes in healthcare.
Nurse leaders play a significant role in reducing nurse turnover and shortage through enhancing retention levels. They employ transformational leadership tactics that promote job satisfaction among nurses. Nurse leaders employing the transformational leadership style work towards enhancing staff nurse’s commitment to the profession (Kleinman, 2004). Transformational leadership entails inculcating spirited motivation, consistent communication about the organization’s vision, guiding staff towards realizing the goals of the organization, and cultivating openness and acceptance to staff suggestions and contributions.
Nurse leaders would also encourage staff retention to reduce turnover rates by encouraging an organizational culture that revolves around sharing responsibilities with other nurses. This is where the nurse leader develops good working relationships with other staff nurses in a culture of shared responsibility. The leader builds a sense of teamwork that contributes to a shared job satisfaction and ultimately reduces staff turnover.
Nurse leaders would also focus on the longer term solutions to the turnover and shortage problem. The leader would involve staff nurses and other stakeholders such as nurse educationists in exploring solutions to the problem. For instance, nurse leaders may call for a multisectoral approach in developing a public campaign. This campaigned would be aimed at portraying a positive outlook of the nursing profession to increase nursing students’ enrollment. In dealing with shortage, the nurse leader may also initiate a taskforce that continuously performs analysis of staffing levels. The taskforce would also be mandated to recommend ways of solving the problems in an ongoing way rather than last minute solutions typical of managers’ perspectives (MacPhee & Bouthillette, 2008).
Nurse leaders would also respond by establishing platforms that allow staff nurses to participate in designing staffing and policies for bonuses for overtime work. This would translate to more job satisfaction because s...