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                                  Personality and Leadership

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                                  Personality and Leadership

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What is the correlation between having the right personality in Leadership.

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What is the correlation between having the right personality in Leadership.

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How does personality influence leadership?

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Transforming Health Care through Nurse Leadership | Campaign for Action

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                                         Communication

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                                         Communication

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Through communication, a leader can express their ideas and vision to others by means of guiding, motivating and empowering them to work together as a team to achieve a common goal.

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Forms of Communication

You're arguing with a friend, coworker, or significant other and getting nowhere. The argument keeps going in circles with no end and no solution. Can you picture it? Have you been in a similar situation? Ask yourself: could part of the problem be 'we just aren't communicating?' Both effective and ineffective communication can influence us, not only in our everyday lives and relationships, but in our careers as well. In the high-stakes situations that nurses often deal with, awareness of our communication can be especially beneficial.

There is a lot of information about the different types of communication, but there are only two main forms: verbal and nonverbal. In 2011, N. Nayab writes: verbal communication entails the use of words in delivering the intended message. However, there are two different modes of verbal communication: oral and written. So no matter how the verbal message is being conveyed, it will either be written or spoken. On the other hand, nonverbal communication is divined as communicating by sending and receiving wordless messages. Body language, like facial expressions, eye contact, posture, or gestures, are all examples of nonverbal communication.

This lesson will focus on the two types of verbal communication and how they are related to nursing and healthcare in general.

Oral Communication in Healthcare

With so many people involved in healthcare, it can be overwhelming for patients and families. Nurses often find themselves as the one that connects all the pieces of the puzzle. Nurses play a pivotal role in the process of effective communication, whether they're exchanging information with physicians, reporting off to other shift nurses, or educating patients and their families.

Communicating is a continuous process when working in the healthcare industry. Oral communication is extremely important for all those involved, including nurses. Not only do nurses relay relevant information to patients and their family, they are also responsible for updating the physician about the condition of their patients on a regular basis. Nurse to nurse reporting occurs whenever there is a change in assigned duties at the end of a shift or if a patient is transferring to a different level of care. This communication is a fundamental part of the nursing process and can result in either high quality effective care or ineffective care caused by lack of information.

Imagine a busy emergency room where a patient comes in from a motor vehicle accident in critical condition. It is the physician's duty to be the team leader and to designate what needs to be done to his or her individual team members in a confident and efficient manner. If a team leader orders a drug 'stat,' such as epinephrine, without clearly stating the dosage or route, the nurse will have to assume the quantity and method of delivery. You see a problem here? Perhaps the nurse miscalculates and gives the patient an ineffective dose. As far as the team is concerned, they believe it was the correct dose since nothing was verbalized. With the patient non-responsive, they're forced to move onto the next step of resuscitation when in fact the correct dose would have been effective.

It is up to the physician to clearly state their orders not only for everyone to follow, but so that the orders may be repeated back as another measure of accuracy. This type of oral communication is also crucial for the nurse who is recording in order to have an accurate written documentation.

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Principles of Communication in Nursing - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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You're arguing with a friend, coworker, or significant other and getting nowhere. The argument keeps going in circles with no end and no solution. Can you picture it? Have you been in a similar situation? Ask yourself: could part of the problem be 'we just aren't communicating?'

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Horror Stories & Success Stories

Oh the horror stories you can tell about some of your former managers who were terrible communicators. They didn't share information, didn't keep their team informed, and were frustrated when people didn't do what they wanted. Unfortunately, their employees did not know what was expected of them and were confused most of the time.

On the other hand, you've also had really great managers who were excellent communicators. You knew what they wanted, you knew where you stood with them, and you understood what you needed to improve. Without a doubt, those managers were more enjoyable to work with and you liked going to the office each morning.

Effective Leaders & Communication

One of the greatest strengths of an excellent leader is having strong communication skills. That one quality sets most leaders apart as a respectful, trusted leader. There are some key aspects to having strong communication skills:

1. Being direct and straight-forward: Most managers know what needs to be done but shy away from having direct conversations with their employees. Many problems continue on for far too long because the person in charge hesitates addressing the problem with their employees. A good leader understands that sharing information, even when difficult, builds rapport and trust with their team. They demonstrate respect and honesty by being straight-forward with both good and bad information.

2. Listening to others: By asking questions or listening to feedback from their team, colleagues, and customers, effective leaders can learn invaluable information. They become informed about problems, ways to improve operations, and concerns that others have. When a manager listens and follows through on solving problems or implementing recommendations, their team is willing to share even more information in the future. It also demonstrates that the leader is committed to their team, the company, the customers, and the positive future of all parties.

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Oh the horror stories you can tell about some of your former managers who were terrible communicators. They didn't share information, didn't keep their team informed, and were frustrated when people didn't do what they wanted. Unfortunately, their employees did not know what was expected of them and were confused most of the time.

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                               Keeping Up With The Changes

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                               Keeping Up With The Changes

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With the constant changes that are happening in the medical field, nurses find themselves on pursing advanced nurse education to propel their career higher.

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What is CLINICAL NURSE LEADER? What does CLINICAL NURSE LEADER mean? CLINICAL NURSE LEADER meaning

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History

Imagine you're an operating room nurse that is about to retire. When you became a nurse in 1960, the newest things in nursing were the ability to hang IV fluids and infuse blood. New antibiotics and other medications were coming onto the scene, but this was about the extent of technologies in place in nursing at the time. As you progressed through your early career, more machines and monitors came onto the scene to assist you with your patient care. You were there when electronic health records, or EHRs, were introduced in the 1980s and were forced to learn how to scan wristbands and medications during your pill pass in the 2000s. As you plan your retirement you wonder, what is next for nursing?

Technology in Nursing Education

The new nurses that are coming in took classes related to genetics and genomics. Genetics is the study of the principles of heredity and genomics is the study of molecular genetics, specifically the genome. Technology can now identify genetic-related health risks and diseases, which can be influenced by one's environment and lifestyle. Their nursing education enhanced their abilities to treat and counsel patients, as well as deal with genetic-related ethical concerns.

The new nurses are more familiar with patient care than you were when you started. They were trained using simulation in Sim-Labs. These labs resembled actual wards or patient care areas with real working equipment and life-like mannequins that had veins that you could actually access to start IVs. In addition, to earn their basic life support credentials, they had to use simulation with a virtual reality program in which they would work with ancillary services, draw blood, give meds, and coordinate patient care.

Technology in Practice

When you started in nursing your supervisor could visually see if you were at work, then you began using timecards as the number of healthcare team members grew. Now, your employer is beginning to use biometrics to clock you in and out of your shift. You also must use biometrics to retrieve medications from a locked pharmacy cabinet and access secured areas in the hospital. Biometrics is the recording and storing of your unique physical properties in a database for the specific purpose of identifying you at a later date.

The facility has also started using ubiquitous computing to gather, store, and share data. You can best describe ubiquitous computing as things that think and communicate with other things. For example, the vital signs machine can now automatically transmit the patient's readings to his or her EHR if the nurse scans the patient's wristband before using the machine.

Another example of ubiquitous computing is the way the operating room staff communicates with family in the waiting room. The family member receives a card with a patient identifier number on it and an electronic pager, similar to one you might receive at a restaurant while waiting on a table. The family can watch a large monitor, following the patient's assigned number, through pre-op, surgery, almost done, and finally recovery. In addition, if the surgical staff needs to contact the family, they can call the pager at anytime.

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Imagine you're an operating room nurse that is about to retire. When you became a nurse in 1960, the newest things in nursing were the ability to hang IV fluids and infuse blood. New antibiotics and other medications were coming onto the scene, but this was about the extent of technologies in place in nursing at the time.

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In conclusion, there are many personality styles and there are as many varying traits what a leader can potentially be. The correlation between having the right personality is the key to be a successful leader. Communication is an integral part of being a leader, whose voice resonate to the people, in spring and motivating them to achieve a common goal. A good leader must be able to convey ideas and opinions with supporting facts to educate not to coerced people into doing something they are not comfortable nor willing to do. Because of the constant changes in the healthcare practices and policies, the younger generation of nurses are being sought out by nurse managers and leaders by placing them in leadership roles to charge to help the shape the new landscape and advance the current practices and policies. Their drive and eagerness to work is evident on helping an organization to cope and implement the new changes, for the sole purpose of insuring the patients receive the highest quality of care possible.

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