Introduction
The paper presents an analysis of different articles, which cover the area of nursing leadership, and patient’s satisfaction. Leadership entails providing a safe and facilitating environment, which allows nurses to work under the required patient-to-nurse ratios. Leadership appears as a core objective within the field of nursing. Leadership exists in the entire healthcare system; however, the leadership in nursing has direct influences towards the patient’s outcomes. Regarding the patient outcomes, nursing leadership affects the patient’s satisfaction, the re-admission rates, and morbidity. Through leadership in nursing the patients, receive satisfaction as they record greater attention that arises from the pay-for-performance systems surveys. The benefits of nursing leadership occur when the results of the intervention appear.
Article`s Discussion
The articles chosen within this paper provide clear data and analysis of the effects of leadership in patient’s outcomes through nursing. The information highlighted by the articles provides a clear view towards the situation and the trends within the leadership part of nursing (Cummings et al. 3). The articles come from individuals who have studied and practiced within the healthcare system, most importantly as nurses. Information from these individuals appears as credible as compared to the information sourced from health care writers who have not served within the sector. The articles present the study data together with the methods used to analyze the relationship that exists between leadership in nursing and patient outcomes. In addition, the articles integrate these relationships based on the patients view and the nurse’s view and this provides a wider base to source information for the study. Finally, the articles present a clear definition of leadership within the nursing niche, which indicates that they fall along the study question and cover the field effectively.
Nursing Leadership as a preparation for the future
Within the nursing context, leadership facilitates the transition towards the preferred future within the health care sector. According to Cummings, leadership provides an opportunity to achieve the preferred future within the nursing sector of the health care industry (Cummings et al. 4). The preferred future may involve a single individual or may entail many individuals as a community or health care teams. From this perspective, leadership in nursing provides the means for nurses to bring progress within the health care industry. Further, the standards set within the health care industry work as a system as they involve goals within nursing and medical care as well as goals placed by the government towards the provision of health care services and increased reach out programs. Leadership presents a forum to integrate the goals in health care provision set by the government along with those presented by nurses and medical professionals within the health care systems.
Leadership and preparing the workforce
Nursing leadership provides an advantage towards the workforce issues, which exist within the healthcare sector (Kutney-Lee, et al. 3). Different leadership approaches exist in the field of nursing and they present different outcomes in the view of patient satisfaction along with the re-admissions among patients who receive services from the health care institutions. The leadership styles within nursing which present a people focused approach also present improvements towards the work environments. The people focused approaches in nursing leadership contribute to increased and improved productivity along with effectiveness of the health care providing institutions.
Leadership and patient re-admission
Based on research, leadership practices, which seem relationally focused, contribute to positive outcomes in terms of patient re-admission. The shortage experienced in the field from a global perspective contributes towards the rising need nursing leadership development. Along with the rising needs, the nursing leadership, which assumes dissonant leadership approaches, does not represent the said patient benefits in the sector (Kutney-Lee, et al. 3).
Nursing Leadership as a tool for improving the healthcare industry
The nursing leadership, which links with the patient satisfaction, entails nursing management practices, which integrate with the system control parameters (Rowen, Doyle, & Seidl 4). For nursing leadership to present the said advantages in the field of customer satisfaction the applied techniques need integration with the self-organization, which leads to the behaviors for the quality outcomes. Furthermore, nursing leadership occurs as a system with parts, which work together towards patient’s outcomes and satisfaction within the health care industry.
The articles serve great importance within the research because they present researched data. Research would prove a challenging aspect of compiling this particular article with the considerations of time spent during the particular processes involved in research. In this light, the articles provide a summary of the facts, which guide the understanding towards the topic question. In addition, the articles present the outline, which serves within the medical and health care research fields (Rowen, Doyle & Seidl 5). The articles also serve the importance of time; they represent findings, which have risen within the recent past. Therefore, the articles highlight the trends within leadership and its effect regarding patient satisfaction in recent studies. The aspect of time provides the authenticity of the articles as reliable and covering modern changes.
Conclusion
Viewing nursing as an entity other than a profession, one may perceive the aspects of leadership in nursing as those of leadership within businesses and organizations (Kutney-Lee, et al. 3). The leaders have different systems and approaches, which focus on customer service satisfaction. Similarly, nursing views the health care institution as a business and the patients as the customers. The systems interrelate for the patient’s satisfaction.
References
Cummings, G. G., MacGregor, T., Davey, M., Lee, H., Wong, C. A., Lo, E., et al. (2009). Leadership Styles and Outcome Patterns for the Nursing Workforce and Work Environment: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 13(1), 1-23.
Kutney-Lee, A., McHugh, M. D., Sloane, D. M., & Flynn, L. (n.d.). Health Affairs. Nursing: A Key To Patient Satisfaction. Retrieved May 20, 2014, from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/28/4/w669.full
Rowen, L., Doyle, K., & Seidl, K. (2011). A Comparison of Leadership Development Interventions: Effects on Nurse and Patient Outcomes. University of Mary Land Medical center, 2(1), 1-34.
