Nursing Essence: Leadership

The Future of Nursing

Nurses lead change and advance health

As the biggest workforce in healthcare and the most trusted to care in the community, hospitals celebrate their nurses on Nurses Week, every second week of May.

While nurses felt their appreciation on these special days, there are comments and buzz in the air: “We need more than these mugs and cakes, water bottles and pens…” Nurses are very simple people and easy to please, just give them these gifts and they will be alright.

Yet, nurses are the most valuable part and asset of healthcare, serving 24/7, 365 days a year. They are professionals, trained for the highest level of care, they deliver their excellence in clinical practice, they are tired, and they need to be conserved as dear as endangered species.

Hospitals should change their culture in the way they look at nurses. They should take care of their nurses 24/7, 365 days a year. If they will only think of ways to lead change and improve healthcare and get the most from the nurses’ full extent of training and education.

And this is how hospitals should appreciate and celebrate nurses: promotion to the next level of practice as Clinicians. Let nurses lead change and advance health.  This is the future of nursing.

Nurses are Leaders Everyday

In today’s state of nursing shortage, it is beyond every nurse’s hand and shoulders to meet the needs of the public. There will always be a shortage and the only way we can take care of the people is through effective leadership. How can nurses possibly take care of the community?  As the health of the world is in nurses’ hands, we have to do more than the physical caring of the acutely ill. We are the team coach for health maintenance. We teach them, we mobilize them to take care of themselves. We teach them by the principle that nursing is based on a self-help and self-preservation theory. Nobody will survive but the fittest, outsmarting the circumstances and his environment.

Whether you are in the acute care setting or in the arena of public health, the principles are the same, and the long term goal is the same: to keep everybody alive and healthy functioning human being. While that is a difficult task, you are the leader every day and that is your challenge.

Ingredients of Success as a Leader:

·         Commitment

·         Truth

·         Excellence

·         Mental Toughness

·         Discipline

·         Habit

·         Results

·         Passion

·         Heart and Caring

Do you have it in you?

HOW DO YOU LEAD?

While some leaders are born with responsibilities to lead, like the princes and kings of the past centuries, the modern leaders are made and trained. Today, leaders abound in every sector of society. With the nursing shortage, there is only one way to go:  Train Nurses to Lead. This way, the people are mobilized to care for themselves.

·         Walk the talk.

·         Keep it simple and keep it real.

·         Celebrate successes.

·         Know that courage matters.

·         Keep hope alive.

·         Take responsibility.

·         Develop a “service attitude.”

·         Aim for the heart.

·         Make a difference whenever and wherever you can.

I AM GUILTY, ARE YOU?

Something did not happen; the intension missed; the damage is done. It takes more than a person to accept it and more professionalism to approach it responsibly. While you can deal with mistakes in so many ways easily, you will choose to act and approach it the hard and yet positive way, the way it will become a part of you forever.

I can still remember the mistakes I made from my youth when survival rather than wisdom is guiding me. It is because these mistakes guided me to perfection. Without these mistakes and genuine acceptance, I could have remained evil, however, I chose to accept it, acknowledge it, learn from it, correct it, that now, I can tell people how to deal with their mistakes.

It is a part of our human nature to commit mistakes,” To err is human” and there is nothing wrong with that, until you accept and make up for it, that same mistake will never happen again.

Let Dino Doliente speak for himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNlWJKd2Utg

Leadership Excerpts from Walkthetalk.com

Excerpted from The Essence of Leadership

On March 5, 2003, I turned on Good Morning, America while eating breakfast. Charles Gibson was interviewing General Earl Hailston, the commanding general of Marine Forces Central Command. The general was waiting with his troops just a few miles off the border of Iraq…waiting to go to war. General Hailston is the only general in the armed forces who had enlisted and came up through the ranks, and as he spoke, I was impressed by his humble and caring attitude.

Toward the end of the interview, his answer to a question touched me deeply. When Charles asked him if he had any hobbies outside of his work, the general said, “Yes, I love photography, especially taking photos of my men.” He shared that while he had been waiting for the past few days he would take photos of his men, and at night he would email the photos with a brief note to their mothers back in the USA. Charles asked if he could see a sample of a letter, and the general walked into his tent, turned on his computer, and read the last letter he had sent. It said:


Dear Mrs. Johnson,

I thought you might enjoy seeing this picture of your son. He is doing great. I also wanted you to know that you did a wonderful job of raising him. You must be very proud. I can certainly tell you that I’m honored to serve with him in the U.S. Marines.

General Earl Hailston

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