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 patien...