Introduction
Creating a leadership style that allows one to control task implementation, promote interdisciplinary work, and improve patient outcomes is instrumental. Therefore, as a future nurse leader, I strive to build a personal leadership style that will help me to prompt a positive change in the clinical environment. By using Servant Leadership as the basis for the described tasks, I will be able to meet diverse patients’ needs while facilitating continuous improvement of care.
Personal Leadership Style
As someone who strives to meet the needs of patients and the community, I believe the Servant Leadership style should be the basis for my approach to nursing. The presence of empathy characterizes the specified framework as the main driver for building a rapport with patients and meeting their needs accordingly (Hayne et al., 2020). As a nurse educator, I will be able to serve the needs of patients by ensuring that the nursing staff is fully trained and skilled in managing patients’ core concerns.
Advocacy and Rationale
The primary rationale behind choosing the specified approach to leadership in nursing concerns the necessity to promote continuous education and professional development in nurses. Acquiring new skills and developing new competencies is becoming increasingly relevant in the globalized healthcare context, where nurses must meet the needs of a broad range of audiences (Jimenez et al., 2021). Consequently, as a nurse educator with a Servant Leadership style, I will direct and mentor nurses toward building the skills that will allow them to approach their patients’ concerns with empathy, care, and understanding.
Conclusion
Introducing servant leadership into the selected clinical context will help me as a nurse leader promote improvements in patient outcomes, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the staff’s performance. The Servant Leadership framework will guide my education strategy by supporting active collaboration among nurses on multiple levels and encouraging the nursing staff to update their skill sets regularly. Therefore, my nursing educator’s priority should be the servant leadership approach.
References
Hayne, A. N., Schlosser, S. P., & McDaniel, G. S. (2020). A caring model for nursing education. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 17(1), 1-14. Web.
Jimenez, W. P., Burleson, S. D., & Haugh, M. J. (2021). From managing nurses to serving nurses: The case for transfusing nursing management with servant leadership during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 14(1-2), 280-285. Web.