Leadership style
A leader that relies on rewards and punishment to achieve optimal job performance
What is transactional leadership?
It is a set of skills and abilities that a person embodies.
What is leadership?
Two key themes of leadership in nursing identified by the Lamb et al., (2008) reading
What is patient focused leadership and organization/systems focused leadership
5 important qualities of a 'good' nurse leader
Open-ended - Examples include what is:
Attentive
Knowledgeable
Fair
Confidant
Advocates for their team
Approachable
Communicative
Organized
Self-aware
Transparant
Supportive/Encouraging
Innovative
Inspiring
A leadership style that is limited because few studies show the link between this leadership style to objective patient care outcomes
What is authentic leadership?
Type of leadership that is aimed to have a direct impact on patients and families.
What is patient-focused leadership?
Two capabilities associated with patient-focused leadership
What is
o Managing patient centred care
o Coaching and educating
o Advocating
o Initiating meaningful communication
An experience or a scenario working with an APN that did not show good leadership qualities in practice and how it could have been improved
Open-ended answer
A leadership style that has the ability to challenge processes and influence peers.
What is clinical leadership
Type of leadership that is intended to influence nurses and other healthcare providers, as well as an organization and a larger healthcare system.
What is organization and system-focused leadership?
What is:
o Improving quality of care provided
o Enhancing professional nursing practice
o Being an expert clinician
o Communication effectively
o Mentoring and coaching
o Providing leadership on internal and external committees
o Facilitating collaboration
Some ways in which you as a nurse leader differ in your expertise compared to other health care leaders on a management team? Capabilities do you bring to a leadership team considering your nursing background?
Open discussion
A leadership style that is limited by power, politics, domination, and resistance are largely excluded from any discourse on leadership
What is transactional and transformational leadership?
Competencies of the 'LEADS' framework?
What are Lead self, Engage others, Achieve results, Develop coalitions, System transformation
You are an APN on a unit where a new process for training newly hired RNs has been implemented as a strategy to ensure all RNs receive the same education and training. Many staff have voiced to you that they do not agree with this new practice and prefer to teach their own way. This may result in the loss of potential precepting nurses.
Some ways that you as an APN overcome this while considering your capabilities in both patient-focused and organization focused leadership?
Discussion
Definition of Parrhesia and its important in nursing leadership
What is "being courageous and saying something dangerous—different from what the majority find comfort in saying—and demanding that truth be spoken despite the risk of losing privilege" (Jenkins et al., 2021)