Leadership is defined as “a process of influence in which the leader influences others toward goal achievement” (Kelly, 2012). Leadership is a vital aspect of any industry, but especially in nursing. It is also important to understand that along with influencing others toward goal achievement, leadership is based on relationships with others. Kelly explains that a minimum there are three qualities that leaders must have, guiding vision, passion and integrity. Guided vision is needed because “leaders must focus on a professional and purposeful vision that provides direction toward the future” (Kelly, 2012, p. 4). Passion is something true leaders cannot help but express. Passion must be expressed for the leader to “inspire …show more content…
This important quality is emotional intelligence. Duygulu explains emotional intelligence is “the intelligent of emotions in knowing and understanding our own and other people 's emotions, motivating ourselves, and managing our emotions properly in ourselves and in our relationships” (Sergul Duyguli & Duygu Hicdurmaz, 2011). With in the scope of emotional intelligence there are social skills, psychological maturity and emotional awareness. It is what allows certain leaders to not be forgotten because they touched someone’s life in away that could never be forgotten. Nurses are expected to have emotional intelligence regardless of their nursing roles and leadership positions, but not every nurse has emotional intelligence. This crucial quality along with guiding vision, passion and integrity is with distinguishes leaders from managers and/or …show more content…
The staff on the floor are broken down from the nurse manager of the unit, the charge nurse, RN’s, LPN’s and CNA’s. From a managerial stand point, it is easy to see that the CNA’s report to either the LPN’s or RN’s, the LPN’s report to the to the RN’s, the RN’s report to the charge nurse and the charge nurse reports to the nurse manager. The manager follows the policies and procedures created by the hospital CEO’s implements them on the department he/she run. If the staff deviates from structure, policies and procedures and are found to not be following the rules, the manager must put the staff back on tract with the outlined structure, policies and procedure and possibly reprimand the staff without helping understand why the staff wasn’t following the structure to begin