Annotated Bibliography: Nursing and Leadership Styles
Article 1;
Giltinane, C.L. (2013).Leadership styles and theories. Nursing Standard, 27(41), 35-39
This academic journal article was written by Giltanane, a highly professional and respected author, effectively discussing three leadership styles that most managers apply to nurse. The author identified the three leadership styles comprise transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and situational leadership style. Transactional leadership is a type of leadership style in which leaders promote compliance by employees through reward and punishment; hence, they tend to advocate for a dictatorship form of governance (Giltinane, 2013). Transactional leaders can keep employees motivated for the short-term. Transformational leadership is a leadership theory where a leader works with a team to identify needed change, create a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and execute the change in tandem with committed members of a group; it is an integral part of the Full Range leadership model. Situational leadership style is a kind of leadership style in which the leaders are flexible in applying any leadership style depending on the prevailing circumstances or situation hence not restrictive per se.
I have decided to into high-level top executive management of Unity Health care for the nursing and leadership assignment to establish the leadership style they apply in the health care facility. While administering interview questions to the interviewee will tend to probe on which type of leadership style they are practicing among the three highlighted by the author; the author has expanded my knowledge of nursing leadership styles. Finally, Giltanane’s article will help me compare and contrast the types of leadership styles being practiced in health care with other styles applied in other healthcare organizations.
Article 2;
Curtis, E, & O’Connell. (2011).Essential leadership skills for motivating and developing staff. Nursing Management, 18(5), 32-35
The study’s objective was to briefly determine the difference between transactional leadership and transformational leadership being types of leadership styles and how they affect the health care sector. The authors look at the benefits of transactional leadership style. Having an understanding of how leadership-related styles and behaviors may affect patient satisfaction is necessary for meeting present US health care goals for care delivery, quality, and reimbursement (Curtis & O’Connell. 2011). Transformational leadership’s benefits are that it seeks to lower staff turnover in the nursing sector by making people feel more engaged and included. United behind the leader’s vision, employees at the health care are more likely to feel like they are fit in like they are sharing the same goals with co-workers and are not lonely. This can help improve the health care services delivery in nursing. Transactional leadership is also highlighted as a positive leadership style that enables health specialists staff to share responsibility, power, accountability while at the same time aiming to accomplish organizational goals.
I will use this article when administering questionnaires to the United health care parte4nining to their leadership style choice. Suppose the respondent agrees that they have adopted one of the leadership styles. In that case, it implies that I will have a good knowledge of their practices and beliefs in health care regarding nursing and leadership styles. If, in case they don’t adopt any of the two mentioned, then I would take it as my ample duty to explain, giving a clear illustration on the health set up and further enquire to know how the respondent leadership style adopted similar or different with transformational and transactional leadership styles. Finally, the two authors have enabled me to know the difference between the two leadership styles.
Article 3;
Asamani, J.A., Naab, F., & Ansah Ofei, A.M. (2016). Leadership styles in nursing management: Implications for staff outcomes. Journal of Health Sciences, 6(1)
This article is written by the three above named authors. It seeks to examine the leadership styles applied by nurse managers and how they tend to have an impact on the nursing staff job satisfaction and the purpose to continue staying at their health working stations to improve the service delivery to their patients and also to improve the overall image of the health care to remain to gain a competitive advantage over other health care facilities from other organizations within the USA. However, this article’s findings indicated that nurses staff within the health care didn’t feel satisfied with the autocratic leadership style adopted by their managers at the workplace since they felt they were not involved in the affairs of the health care matters fully.
Asamani, Naab, and Ansah (2016) identified that a few portions of the nurse managers received proper training as managers before their appointment at the health care facilities. Without a proper training plan and need to develop skills among the nurse managers led to the inadequacy of required knowledge and skills to identify their staffs’ requirements to improve their job satisfaction that can, in the long run, improve the better service delivery to their patients. The article gives a clear full explanation of the importance of training and development to the nurse managers at the health care to enhance a better improvement in leadership style required in health care.
References
Giltinane, C.L. (2013).Leadership styles and theories. Nursing Standard, 27(41), 35-39
Curtis, E, & O’Connell. (2011).Essential leadership skills for motivating and developing staff. Nursing Management, 18(5), 32-35
Asamani, J.A., Naab, F., & Ansah Ofei, A.M. (2016). Leadership styles in nursing management: Implications for staff outcomes. Journal of Health Sciences, 6(1)