Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management

Approaches (Name) (University) (Course) (Tutor) (Date) Nursing managers and leaders play a critical role in influencing the safety and quality of healthcare services on offer as well as the business of healthcare institutions. The managers and leaders individually strive towards influencing the behavior of the rest of the nursing personnel to provide direct, professional and individualized nursing care. Thus, although both of them play a mediated role, their responsibilities and style of accomplishing tasks within a health organization may differ. In practice, nursing managers and leaders are likely to employ significantly different approaches in identifying and exploiting resources within an institution and in resolving issues that may be threatening the operations of a healthcare organization. In tackling nursing staff turn-over and shortage within an organization, nursing managers and leaders are likely to apply varying principles and skills in resolving the issue, thereby approaching it differently CITATION Dal03 \l 1033 (Daly, Speedy, & Jackson, 2003). This paper seeks to describe the different approaches that nursing managers and leaders are likely to adopt in resolving nurse turn-over and nursing shortage in a healthcare organization. The paper will also identify and explain the best approach. By and large, the increasing rates of nurse turn-over and soaring nursing shortage are causes for concern in the healthcare sector across the globe. The issue of global scarcity of nurses is characterized by declining numbers of personnel at all nursing levels. This has rendered it difficult for health care organizations to offer professional, personalized and high quality care besides compromising the safety of nursing services. Additionally, the inadequate nursing workforce is unable to fully address the healthcare needs of their patients, thereby leading to increased suffering and helplessness among patients as well as dissatisfaction and resentment among the overstretched staff members CITATION Val04 \l 1033 (Valentine, 2004). As such, adequate nursing management and leadership intervention is needed to resolve the crippling human resource crisis. In resolving the nursing turn-over and shortage problem within the healthcare setting, a nursing manager is likely to undertake several initiatives. To begin with, a nursing manager is likely employ management tasks such as budgeting and planning in an effort to ensure adequate budgetary allocations and to streamline the workforce organization efforts. This may involve effective management of the financial resources to ensure nursing personnel recruitment programs have adequate finances to attract and recruit a competent nursing staff. The manager can also spearhead budgetary adjustments aimed at setting aside additional financial incentives for the nursing workforce in an effort to minimize or eradicate staff turn-over. With regard to planning, the nursing manager is likely to determine the short-term and long-term human resource needs and align them with the overall objectives of the healthcare organization. This may lead to subsequent hiring of additional nurses to compensate for the high turn-over rates and establishing of strategies aimed at combating nurse turn-over to guarantee realization of the set objectives CITATION Dia10 \l 1033 (Huber, 2010). Secondly, a nursing manager is also likely employ the staffing and organizing functions in combating high turn-over in a healthcare organization. This may involve effective mobilization of the available nursing staff and review of the responsibilities durations for the nurses to the recommended levels to avoid straining the workforce. Consequently, reorganization will help redistribute nursing functions among the available staff, thereby averting high personnel turn-over due to overload. Similarly, the manager is likely to employ the staffing function to identify and hire qualified nursing personnel to fill out the understaffed nursing levels. This will significantly reduce individual workload and enable nurses to adequately address the unique needs of their clients,...