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Nursing leadership

Nursing leadership

Part one

For any nursing career, values and beliefs are part of the entire profession. Nursing is more governed by the following core values: Family values, Happiness, Sense of accomplishment, Honesty,Responsibility, Intellect, Human dignity, Equality and Prevention of suffering.

To understand this most, a nurse should have the following five great values are geared towards the quality practice of the profession. The values make them understand themselves and even tend to give a clear picture on what should be required in that particular work. The following values are always translated into behaviors:

First, a great nurse should be compassionate. This is based on the feeling of concern and sympathy for other peoples especially those they administer the direct service. They should learn to value most the patients since their loved ones would not be willing to lose them due to premature deaths and other life complications.These patients need support from the nurses since they not in control and are frightened. The nurses form the fraternity of the consummate advocates of the patients and need to speak up when we feel that the environment is not safe for them(Kelly, 2012).

Secondly, a great nurse is empathetic since they tend to share in the feelings of the others. This doesn’t mean that the nurses tend to agree or completely understand what they are going through rather it means they are willing to make a concerted effort to listen to them, and try to understand their problems and challenges that they face. Understanding all this makes the nurses to have concrete moral positive attitudes towards their patients by getting to know well their life experiences that have brought them to this point(Kelly, 2012).Another great value that a nurse should possess is being selfless. This is giving others at the expense of themselves. It is as simple as missing lunch in order to hold the patient’s hand or to do something extraordinary for someone else(Kelly, 2012). 

A great nurse is self-aware in her/his profession. This is a high degree of emotional intelligence that is exhibited by somebody. How we treat ourselves including all the great things we tend to do for ourselves should be extended to our patients too. The support that we shall render to them should be very great and have positive impacts towards those patients(Kelly, 2012). 

The magnanimous value that every nurse should exhibit is the attribute of being technically strong with a thirst for knowledge. This calls up the nurses to remain on the cutting edge of their practice regardless of the discipline since it is their obligation to do so. This needs them to be reading on healthcare economics, leadership theory and other related issues that impact those in leadership roles. The above values are also affected by a number which include culture, professional education, training, and experience.

There are a set of values, habits and beliefs learned during socialization contained by a culture which shape the worlds of ideas, perception, decisions, and how individuals should act. In most cases, each caregiver tends to carries his or her own set of cultural values during the caring interaction. Some activities reflect unique values and traditions that are rooted in nurses although the professional work of nurses is representative of the global nursing culture.

Though Professional experience does not change personal and professional values by most researchers, the reverse is also true by other researchers. There is always a decrease in the values of altruism and equality with an increase in professional experience among students and nurses.

Regarding the Education and professional training, the individual professions tend to have different value systems. In most nurses, values like human dignity, humanity, caring, and the respect for personal privacy is considered most important.

Some of the nursing professionals have personal values which direct them to prefer specific values in their professional field(Bishop, 2009).

The Beliefs used to explain the nursing profession includes:

Beliefs about nursing practices.There are several beliefs in the nursing profession which even undermine the whole activity of nursing as a profession. The much known belief is that Nursing is a knowledgedriven practice profession, which involves the diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of human responses to health and illness. This occurs in the context of human communication and interaction between nurses, clients and the others involved in the health care, policy and planning. Both the nurses and they converge together to integrate their knowledge, experience and meaning to context of nursing care. This is normally directed towards the human experience of health, illness and healing.The larger social mandate of accountability and responsibility as articulated in professional are the larger social mandate of accountability and responsibility. This profession of nursing exists are a purpose of meeting a societal mandate and its responsibility remains visible to nursing serves mainly in times of change and complexity. Therefore, nursing goals is to assist the individuals, families and communities to achieve optimal health in the entire society (Bishop, 2009). 

The derivation of the empirical knowledge is a great evidentiary basis of nursing as it requires an integrated application of evidence and pattern recognition as well as experiential understanding.

Beliefs About Nursing Knowledge

This tends to inform the other in a continuous dialectic as the Nursing knowledge and practice interact in an iterative manner.

It also represents the illness enacted with dynamic professional context and the distinct disciplinary which includes knowledge of different disciplines and perspectives. This knowledge is derived from philosophy, history and science as it draws theory from a wide range of sources and intellectual disciplines. All these (nursing knowledge) involves the application of general which includes patterns, themes, and principles from evidence, including circumstances and contexts.

Nursing science requires a range of research and scholarships for its advancement hence its education is ideally enacted within the context of a research-intensive academic community.

Beliefs About Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation in Nursing. This is one of the beliefs which are absolutely practiced by some of the nurses in their professional career. It requires a culture geared towards lifelong learning. This requires a mutual respect and orderly shared responsibility between the learners and the teachers which also needs recognition and support for diversity value hence meeting the learning needs and styles.

The active, engaged and participatory learning environment forms the optimal climate for learning in nursing education. The development of academic nursing competencies is as a result of the interaction between teachers and learners. The development of the knowledge, critical thinking skills, and philosophical understanding is as a result of the nursing curriculum which is the blueprint for enactment of the professional practice. Nursing involves the embodiment of stands of professional practice as it involves the processes of teaching and learning. This forms the mechanisms for feedback and evaluation in nursing education. For this reason, nursing education leads to the development of critical and reflective thinking, comprehensive and contextual knowledge, and accountability for knowledge.

Part two

The future of nursing profession lies within our own thinking. Though nursing as a profession of modern days has experienced a significant number of changes, there is still much a head to be done in order to achieve the vision 2018 and above. The nursing roles have really changed and we expect the same trend to continue till we see many diseases being prevented before their outbreaks(Bishop, 2009). 

In order to meet the needs and the demands of the current population, nurses are still required to continue providing the advanced care based on the practical standards.

Therefore, my vision to nursing leadership as a profession is geared towards the advancement of quality services offered in the nursing profession. This should be achieved by the dedication of the nursing leaders to the real nursing career. This leadership should ensure the dramatic expansion of the traditional nursing role in a perceptive care setting. This has adverse effects on the holistic health promotion within the community setting by putting emphasis to social, political and economic factors(Bishop, 2009).

Due to excellent leadership in the nursing sector, there has been a great emergence of community and public health nursing which intern is expected to develop to become a key component of nursing which should be equated with traditional acute care nursing.

In the nursing leadership, implementation of primary health care model will help to vigorously attain this vision as posed by the World Health Organization thirty years ago (World Health Organization, 1978).

In most cases, Leadership and action from nurses is vital. It my wish that these leadership qualities should be passed on to graduate nurses and nursing students who may or will form the nursing leaders of the future. It is for the reason the continuance of effective nursing care will be enhanced and development of nursing roles is ensured.

Though cooperation is required from all disciplines, nurses can operate as change agents for this end this is very necessary since, nursing practice is the very essence of primary health care which is our vision for the future (International Council of Nurses, 2008).

With an effective leadership, there will be more development of a more pronounced upstream approach in the nursing roles. Effective leadership has also to make sure that there is great illness prevention and health promotion in most of our communities. The patients and the communities should also be empowered on the importance of living healthy lifestyles through creating programs for awareness and synthesization.

Due to the current shortage of nurses in this profession, good leadership in nursing profession should be ensuring that the sector becomes equipped with more experienced nurses in order to eliminate the hindrance of the development of true primary health care.This is experienced in most parts of the world including Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Registered Nurses’ Association, 2008).When this happens, more opportunities for nurses to advance in their practices in new directions and even some attaining recognition will be witnessed.

For us to experience good nursing leadership, the competency and education programs will initiate advancement of nursing roles as clinical nurse specialists. Due to these programs, there has a drastic change in Saskatchewan as the number of licensed nurse practitioners has been significantly increasing in the past few years. It is a remarkable development that we expect to be our vision in the near future (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2006).

Part three.

Having stated the values, beliefs and the vision for the leadership of nursing as a profession, there is also much to ensure these values are evaluated and the beliefs to be opted out.

Focusing on the vision of nursing profession, being compassionate is my will. The sympathy that we, the nurses should exhibit will really demand the entire dedication to the work and by doing this; we make the dreams of even our patients being valid(World Health Organization, 1978).

Being in a profession that empty is almost our slogan, needs great concern to the entire public. My great concern about this is geared towards being in mood to always share with rest of my patients the feelings we all face.The value of selfless is what we all need to adapt in the nursing profession since weed to give at the expense of others rather than considering ourselves great. This is vital issue that is part of the pillars of the future vision we have in the nursing profession (World Health Organization, 1978).

We are moving to an era of revolution where we the nurses should be required to extend what we do in daily bases to our daily patients too. This creates a great rapport among the nurses and the entire patient fraternity.

The beliefs on the nursing practices should be up to standard nut not just to talking about them without putting into the real life practice and exercising them every time in our career. The belief on learning, teaching and evaluating nursing should be update and be in line with the current standards since this forms the base and the foundation of quality nursing practices. It is only through good nursing leadership that this can be achieved easily (World Health Organization, 1978).

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