ROLE OF RESEARCH, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN

NURSING

Mrs. AMRITA ROYM.SC PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

NIMHANS,BANGALORE

RESEARCH IN NURSING

DEFINITION

According to Polit and Beck (2006), nursing research is:

“Systematic inquiry designed to develop knowledge about issues of importance to nurses, including nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing administration. ”

IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH IN NURSING

1. Research is an important tool for the continual development of a relevant body of knowledge in nursing.

2. Research generates information from nursing investigations which help define the unique role of nursing as a profession.

3. Professional accountability of nurses to their clients is demonstrated when nurses incorporate research evidence into their clinical decisions.

4. Research facilitates evaluation of the efficacy of nurses practice which may articulate their role in the delivery of health services.

5. With research, costly trial-and-error and even unsafe interventions are avoided.

6. Research may allow nurses to make more informed decisions as each phase of the nursing process is clarified through research.

7. Research also enables nurses to understand a particular nursing situation about which little is known.

ROLE OF RESEARCH IN NURSINGFills the gaps in knowledge and practice

Provide basis for professionalism and professional accountability

Improves standards of nursing education

ROLE OF RESEARCH IN NURSING

Discovering new measures of nursing practice

Moulds attitudes, competencies and skills

Meeting the changing societal needs

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN NURSING

DFINITION

• ‘Leadership…is the ability to influence people toward attainment of goals.’

- (Daft, 2000)

• ‘Leadership involves the use of interpersonal skills to influence others to accomplish a specific goal.’

- (Sullivan and Garland, 2010)

DEFINITION

• According to F.W. Taylor, "Management is the art of knowing what you want to do and then seeing that they do it in the best and the cheapest may.“

• In the words of Henry Fayol – “ To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organise, to command, to co-ordinate and to control”.

Hughes et al (2006) make the following distinctions between managers and leaders:

■ Managers administer, leaders innovate ■ Managers maintain, leaders develop ■ Managers control, leaders inspire ■ Managers have a short-term view, leaders have a long-term view ■ Managers initiate, leaders originate ■ Managers accept the status quo, leaders challenge it

NEED OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

• High-quality health services require leadership & skilled management.

• Leaders rise out of the need to improve a situation. Managers take over the day-to-day functions required to sustain the improvement.

• They are important for the successful introduction and implementation of advanced practice nursing roles.

ROLE OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN NURSING

Leadership and management helps to align the nursing outcomes with the organizational goals.

The establishment of a healthy work environment requires strong nursing leadership at all levels of the organization.

Leadership and management ensure that care delivery aligns with the highest quality of care:– Understand key quality and safety improvement

measures.– Lead staff training to ensure the safest care for

patients.– Ensure staff access to necessary equipment.

The positive relationship between type of leadership and satisfaction of staff is supported by research (Faila & Stichler, 2008).

There is a need for improved leadership to improve staff perceptions of leadership support and reduce turnover in critical care units (Ulrich et al. 2009).

In a system where demand frequently outpaces financial and human resources, hospital and quality performance is widely scrutinized and patient outcomes are considered a direct reflection of a nurse manager's effectiveness in fulfilling the role.

Given the impact of the nurse manager on retention, satisfaction, productivity, and outcomes, organizations are wise to seek ways to better understand this critical role and foster an organizational climate that develops, engages, and empowers nurse managers.

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