Leadership and managment in nursing

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Name Institution Affiliation Course Date of Submission Leadership and Management The issue of improved healthcare has been of major concern in many countries. This has brought about the need for efficient leaders in nursing. The leaders and management should be bold enough to go beyond their usual limits and be able to implement new ideas for the benefit of their customers (Antrobus, et al., 2009). The change agents in nursing are the nurses themselves. The nurturing of leaders in nursing is dependent on the theories of leadership and management. There are a number of leadership and management theories. For example, in transactional leadership theory, the effectiveness of the output in nursing practice is mainly when the nursing manager relates well with the change agent who are mainly the nurses. The nursing leader will have to look at the abilities of the nurses and use these to the advantage of the situation (Bennett, 2012). Every nurse potential is looked at and to achieve maximum output the manager will assign the nurses different roles depending on their abilities. These can only happen if the leader shows that he/she is an expert in what is being done. The leader will have to work closely with the top management and formulate strategic policies. The nurses also should share their ideas and work closely with their manager. Other leadership theories include transactional ad transformational. For example, a nurse in charge who acts as the leader of other nurses can either influence the subjects on the decisions to be made or by taking up their ideas and coming out with a final decision. The advantage of democratic leadership is that there is more comprehensive analysis of a medical situation. In some cases, the leader, a nurse in charge in this case, will consider the needs of the nurse and work on that path to also bring out the hospital`s needs (Bratt, 2013). The role of the nurses here is to air out their grievances to the nursing in charge who will in turn work around them thereby empowering them to give out their best in the work place. By being a leader of reason and consideration, the nursing manager will be able to improve healthcare through the nurses. In addition to that, the leader also has a responsibility of acting with integrity and honor so as to be an example to the subjects. Nurses will look up to their leader and behave in the same mannerism as he/ she. In simple terms, the subjects always give out the picture of the leader. The leader should also be able to influence the changes that happen in an organization (Clark, 2009). In this context, the nursing in charge does not only leave the nurses to work and influence changes. He/she will also use his/ her capacity to influence the change in the hospital. On a different way altogether, a leader can also use the Max Weber`s Bureaucratic Theory of Management. This theory champions for the use of force and coercive methods. The nursing in charge can influence the decisions of the nurses by forcing them to act on their ideology. This method of leadership and management is good in the event that time is limited and efficiency is paramount (Coleman, 2010). As their will be no participation in ideas, implementation is fast and efficient. The nurse will only have to obey and do whatever they are told to do without questioning. Both Elton Mayo Behavioral Theory of Management and Henri Fayol Administrative Management Theory look at the leader as a person only supervises and doesn`t participate. Any change that therefore occurs in an organization is due to the efforts of the subjects and not the leader (Elser,2008). For example, if there happens to be an improvement ...