Paper Topic:

nursing and leadership

Nursing and Leadership

Abstract

Nursing is a professional occupation involving , but not limited to giving care to patients , administering treatment and intervention strategies such as medicines , care of wounds and rehabilitation in the hospital or primary care setting . This aimed to determine possible applications of leadership to the nursing profession in general and in emergency level IV , especially the servant leadership theory in comparison with transactional and transformational styles of leadership Servant leadership was found to have suitable applications on the nursing profession both in the emergency setting and in

general as opposed to the other two styles which are deemed inappropriate because of their charismatic and business-like approaches . Moreover , the different principles of servant leadership were accordingly applied in day-to-day nursing practice

Virginia A . Barrett

Texas A M University - Corpus Christi

School of Nursing

July , 2007

Nursing and Leadership

Robert K . Greenleaf was an educator and writer born in 1904 in Terre Haute , Indiana . He worked at AT T after graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota and was involved in management , development and education research . After his early retirement in 1964 , he founded the Center for Applied Ethics and in 1970 , published his first essay , The Servant Leader ' where he introduced the term `servant leader ' The essay was later expanded into a book in 1977 which gave birth to the Servant Leadership movement (Spears , 1998

Greenleaf defines a servant-leader as a servant first who in becoming a leader realizes the natural aspiration to serve . After this stage , that person consciously decides to become a leader . This therefore differentiates a servant leader from a person who is leader first Accordingly , a servant makes sure first that the peoples ' highest of needs are being met (Greenleaf , 2002

According to Greenleaf , the best test for assessing a leadership or an institution is through the satisfaction of the following questions : Do those being served grow as persons ? Do they become more intelligent independent , freer , healthier and more inclined to become themselves servants ? What would be its benefits or effects on the least privileged (Frick , 2004

A servant leader should perform the following practices in to effectively provide services and lead people towards a better and brighter prospect of growing and well-being in general

A servant leader must learn how to listen . Listening is defined by Greenleaf as the outlook toward other people and the things that they would like to say . A servant leader must first listen to the concerns of his constituents before he can take an action toward the resolution of that particular concern . This approach naturally exposes him to possess a disposition of a servant first . In other words , a person can become a servant by learning to listen first . Listening is a healing approach which constitutes intensely paying and holding one 's attention onto the situation of the person and issues that are being raised (Spears , 1998

A servant leader must practice ethical use of power through persuasion Persuasion is achieved through clear explanation and dissection...

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