Discussion Post: Ethical and Legal; Aspects of Nursing Practice
Case Study, Chapter 3, Developing Effective Leaders to Meet 21st-Century Health Care Challenges
An experienced registered professional nurse has just been promoted as the nurse manager of a nursing unit. The nurse had been a very effective leader on the unit prior to the promotion of becoming the nurse manager. The new nurse manager is making a list of essential characteristic of effective leaders.
• What are factors that are driving the need for innovative and transformational leaders in health care for the 21st century?
• What are essential characteristics of an effective leader that the new nurse manager needs to incorporate into the nursing unit culture?
• The nurse manager is reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of three leadership models: transactional, transformational, and complexity. What are the essential characteristics of the three leadership models? Which model do you think is most effective to use in leading a nursing unit? Why?
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.