Nursing Leadership Styles Paper

Abstract

Leadership in healthcare heavily influences organizational performance and patient outcomes. Healthcare leaders are trusted individuals who work towards improving their organization. Many different leadership styles exist, and each style has its strengths and weaknesses. Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) have the opportunity to lead at many different levels of the organization, from direct patient care to upper-level policy making. This paper includes information on the authentic leadership style identified in the APRN interview and how the interviewed APRN embodies authentic leadership. Additionally, this paper includes a synthesis of the literature on authentic leadership and its application to the APRN role.

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APRNs act as a bridge between physicians, nurses, and patients. APRNs are valued members of the care team and continue to take on leadership roles, even in non-traditional settings such as local or federal government or hospital executive roles (Kapu, 2022). Optimizing APRN leaders will continue to improve hospital performance and patient outcomes (Kapu, 2022). There are many different approaches to leadership that individuals can take. Multiple leadership styles are effective in healthcare, such as transformational leadership, servant leadership, and authentic leadership to name a few (Northouse, 2021). Each leadership style has its strengths and weaknesses, and the use of style is based on the leader’s personality or the situation (Northouse, …show more content…
This transparency makes followers feel safe in their environment and have a heightened sense of belonging, which benefits the leader-follower relationship (Rodriguez et al., 2024). Followers are likelier to think creatively and feel optimistic about their work (Kleynhans et al., 2021). Additionally, this environment creates a place for followers to succeed or fail in a safe place (Maximo et al., 2019). Overall, the results of AL on the workplace environment positively affect work performance, followers' engagement, organizational commitment, and the leader-follower relationship (Maximo et al., 2019; Ribeiro et al., 2020; Rodriguez et al.,

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