This article, the second in a five-part series, explores leadership skills for nurses working in the criminal justice system to effect change in service provision. The article discusses different leadership styles and distinguishes management from leadership. Factors that influence change are outlined, ...
and nurses need to evolve in that direction. The knowledge and skills for leading healthcare services and personnel are ever-changing, and nurses must continue to seek growth in leadership to enhance their problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making abilities. The nurse leader who is ...
The NHS Plan (2000) states that nurses need to take a lead role in the running of local health services. It also suggests that strong leadership is needed at a clinical level. The literature identifies a number of skills deemed to be essential for clinical leadership, some of these are ...
Nurses must continually refine their skills and learn new ones to keep up with changes in medicine and to better meet their patients’ needs. Effective nurse leaders create an environment that supports this growth and gives nurses the time and resources they need to strengthen their competency. Th...
OUR CATCHY TITLE ASIDE, LET'S BE clear: Leadership is not for dummies. Although leadership skills are different from those needed to care for critically ill newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit, the job of managing nurses is just as hard as the job of nursing, if not more so. Le...
Leadership is not all about position or power alone, we need to be the inspirational role models for others by becoming an example. Leadership skills can be acquired by learning and through experience. Nurses need to develop themselves for leadership roles specially required in practice. The work...
This inspiring book is a wake-up call to nurses and allied health professionals to develop their leadership skills and to make a real difference to global health and social development. Veronica Bishop uses high profile historical case studies to illustrate the concept of leadership and put it ...
As a nurse, a lot of people are counting on you. If you work with or train nurses, much also depends on your ability to impart these leadership skills to them, so that they can carry them back to their hospitals and other medical settings. When they do, they improve medical teams, pa...
The rise of online education has made it easier for nurses to further their education through flexibleonline master nursing programs. Programs such as an MSN or DNP offer the advanced education necessary to develop leadership skills and knowledge. ...
Diane K. Whitehead also provides some advice how to deal with the managers who criticize nurses for their desire to demonstrate the leadership skills. The most valuable advise is to follow the chosen path and be confident in the actions you believe are good for others and the situation in gen...