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...