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NUR434 Discussion Post 7.1

Nicholas Henderson

Spring Arbor University

NUR434 Quality Leadership

Linda Fayer

October 4, 2020
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NUR434 Discussion Post 7.1

The role of nurse is an extremely broad one, but nurse leaders specialize in their areas of

expertise. Nurse leaders are an asset needed to facilitate communication with ongoing quality

improvement measures and administrations need to understand the frontline workers (Bender,

2016). To operate effectively in this role, nurse leaders, need to be involved in the

implementation of everyday practices and implementation of improvements. In that way they can

have the experience to develop and grow their specific unit through advocacy for staff and

patients.

Personal Improvements

When transitioning into a nurse leader role, nurses need to have the experience to be a

resource for other nurses as well as the confidence to effectively communicate with other staff.

This increases the likelihood that improvement measures are embraced by staff instead of seen as

an authoritarian edict. Nurse leaders should find ways to practice and enhance their emotional

intelligence which improves their own recognition of emotions and builds their understanding of

others emotions through empathy (Prezerakos, 2018). This can be done through mindfulness

meditation, but mostly comes from experiences and reflection on their experiences. Time

management is also an important factor in a nurse leader’s role. Due to the broad spectrum of

their specialized role in their unit, nurse leaders need to be able to allocate time for patient care,

education, communication between stakeholders, and research into better practices (Heinen et

al., 2019). A measure to improve time management is scheduling through use of a day planner

and communicating with different departments to consolidate meetings and information.

Utilizing technology to facilitate exchange of information is a helpful tool and nurse leaders

should be familiar with the programs and assets available to their unit or facility. An overarching
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theme to the nurse leader is providing understanding between multiple parties about

understanding the goals, improvements, practices, and implementations needed. A nurse leader

should have experience with multiple facets of care, from environmental services to the CEO,

understanding the aspects of each role and the measures each role seeks to achieve. Nurse leaders

need to have an understanding about the barriers to implementation of improvements and be able

to communicate those barriers which allows for the multiple departments to understand why

implementations or changes are taking longer or what difficulties a change creates (Heinen et al.,

2019).

References

Bender, M. (2016). Conceptualizing clinical nurse leader practice: an interpretive synthesis.


Journal of Nursing Management, 24(1), E23-E31. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12285
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
Prezerakos, P. E. (2018). Nurse Managers’ Emotional Intelligence and Effective Leadership: A
Review of the Current Evidence. The Open Nursing Journal, 12(1), 86-92.
https://doi.org/10.2174/1874434601812010086

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