Leadership in Nursing

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This is a brief paper that answers three questions relating to nursing leadership and nursing leadership skills. The paper focuses on the issues from the standpoint of the labour and delivery nurse, particularly discussing how it affects their ability to perform their nursing role.

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"Critically analyze the leadership concepts in relationship to the nursing profession and to your role. Leadership in nursing is a shared responsibility between the nursing supervisor/administrator and the nurse responsible for direct healthcare delivery (George, Burke, Rodgers & Duthie, 2002). Shared leadership empowers employees to perform their responsibilities independently and enables nurses to make decisions and then act upon them. Shared leadership is a new construct that many nurses are not accustomed to; for example, most nurses in the labour and delivery unit are responsive to medical orders from physicians and generally need approval before initiating patient care that requires decision making authority. In a landmark study on shared leadership, Aiken (1994 cited in George et al., 2002) demonstrated that "greater nurse autonomy and control in the point-of-service...affected patient outcomes by their direct actions and their influence over the actions of others.""

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