Understanding of the Impact of Leadership on Quality Care and Patient Safety

They make the world derive the meaning of patient safety issues, mobilise resources, and put solutions on the table. Nursing staff plays a critical part as clinical leaders. Even with the existence of such studies, society still lacks the insight into how nurses develop authority and leadership that will enable them to impact the prevention of error. The nursing case scenario The nursing case scenario indicates so many issues that could have a damaging effect on the work environment. The most critical undoing in the situation is that the facility has a culture of shunning experienced registered nurses, instead opting to recruit more graduates to reduce the cost of agency staff. Experienced nurses are known to employ dynamic, innovative and creative strategies in the work of patient care. One of the critical approaches includes communicating the need for patient-centered surroundings effectively and then sharing their vision of quality.

Leaders also participate in visible and active partnership with physician workmates. The collaboration begins typically at the CMO/CNO level and trickles to the individual unit level. Therefore, without experienced nurses in a facility, there is no shared vision and incidents like conflicts with consumers, medical errors, and nurses do not feel the urge to work and always find excuses to refrain from work. Such incidents revert to the problem of understaffing, which hinders patient safety. The current nursing management staff is transitioning to retirement in a year’s time, and that could also be a problem. An ageing workforce has exacerbated the widespread shortage of nurses. Though productive and skilled, old nurses are more vulnerable to the mental and physical demands of nursing (Verschueren, & Euwema, 2013). However as the nursing management team retires and the facility has not had a culture of hiring experienced nurses, a void will be left in the much needed clinical care positions.

Alternatively, more experienced registered nursed could be given chances to take different duties in prevention and education, patient navigation, and community engagement. With the problem of employing less qualified staff to minimize agency staff costs, the unit has to implement a mixed mixture method, where the employment approach applied targets having both nurses at work. The long-term benefits accrued with having experienced nurses outweigh the current plan of reducing costs. With the right blend of having experienced nurses and graduates, the hospital will improve patient safety because of the presence of leadership. The leaders will guide the younger generation and instil in them virtues that will help them navigate through the demanding role of nurses. Leadership remains the critical component in an active patient safety plan because it is the only function that can productively harness decisions in their healthcare facilities to support the commitment and culture needed to address the issues that cause clinical errors and distress to patients.

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