Auditing the impact of implementing the Modern Matron role in an acute teaching trust

Dealey, Carol; Moss, Helen; Marshall, J. Hunter; Elcoat, C

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2934.2006.00658.x

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“…In this case, organizational commitment led to enhanced visibility, a policy remit of the modern matron role (Department of Health , Dealey et al . ). Although in the literature the focus is centred on the visibility of leaders and managers in clinical areas for the promotion of effective infection control practice (Healthcare Commission ), this study has highlighted the visibility of other people (in a non‐managerial role, with ascribed responsibility for specific clinical issues) as being important.…”

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What works: a realist evaluation case study of intermediaries in infection control practice

Williams

Burton

Rycroft‐Malone

2012

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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What works: a realist evaluation case study of intermediaries in infection control practice

Williams

Burton

Rycroft‐Malone

2012

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Previous research of modern matrons and other senior nursing posts has recommended transformational leadership to support the effectiveness of the role, and few other leadership styles appear to have been considered (Read et al. 2004, Dealey et al. 2007, Clark 2008, Koteyko & Nerlich 2008).…”

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“…Previous studies appear to suggest that leadership is a major factor in influencing the matrons’ effectiveness (Cole 2002, Barbour & Dodd 2007, Dealey et al. 2007, Smith 2008b).…”

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To explore and understand the leadership experiences of modern matrons, within an acute NHS Trust

Lawrence

Richardson

2012

J Nurs Manag

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Aim The aim of this study was to explore and understand the leadership experiences of modern matrons. Background Modern matrons were re-introduced to the National Health Service in 2002, and effective leadership has been identified as being essential for the role to be successful. However, there is minimal evidence of how modern matrons experience effective leadership. Methods The study used a descriptive generic qualitative methodology; one-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine matrons. This was subjected to an inductive thematic analysis. Results Three themes were found to influence modern matron's leadership experiences: leadership behaviours, negative influences and leadership investment. They did not follow one leadership style but adapted this to their situation. Various factors appeared to restrict their leadership effectiveness. Conclusions The findings suggest that exposure to a range of leadership styles should be included in preparation and CPD for the modern matron role and a more consistent job description and job purpose should be developed. Implications for nursing management Leadership styles such as transformational leadership alone do not meet the complex demands of nursing leaders, and therefore there is a requirement for greater flexibility in leadership development for all health care professionals.

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“…Brought back from better times, as a politically high profile role (Dealey et al, 2007) "Matron symbolized order, tradition and controlling leadership" (Bufton, 2005(Bufton, , p. 1186): a domineering "battle-axe" who would nonetheless know how to lead a ward while ensuring patients were properly fed and looked after (Stephens, 2002). Here, nostalgia provides an idealized image of the archetypal heroic leader, a highly masculinized vision of unitary power and authority (Binns and Kerfoot, 2011) with which to address contemporary ills in nursing care.…”

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ModernMatron: a “site” for leadership

Matykiewicz

McMurray

2013

Gender in Mgmt: Int J

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider the ways in which certain occupational, organizational and political positions become active sites of leadership construction. Taking as their example the introduction of the Modern Matron in the English National Health Service (NHS) this paper considers how new forms of gender transcending leadership are constituted relationally through a dynamic interplay of historical, nostalgic, social, political and organizational forces.Design/methodology/approachThe research was conducted within an interpretive paradigm of social constructivism and draws on data from semi‐structured interviews with a purposive sample of 16 Modern Matrons working in a single English NHS Trust. In keeping with inductive, qualitative research practice, data has been analysed thematically and ordered using descriptive, hierarchical and relational coding.FindingsTheir contention is that the Modern Matron presents as a site for relational leadership in respect of both self and other. This paper argues that the construction of Modern Matron usefully points to the ways in which multiple discourses, practices and relations may be intertwined in defining what it is to lead in contemporary organizations. This paper highlights the extent to which leadership is an on‐going relational co‐construction based – in this instance – in the interplay of four factors: nostalgic authority, visibility, praxis and order negotiation. Together, these produce a mode of leading that is neither heroic nor popularist.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research might consider how competing temporal, political and organizational imperatives encourage the development of particular sites for leadership, and how such leadership is then re‐performed in practice, as well as the affects/effect on individual and organisational performance.Originality/valueThe data provides opportunity to consider the “lived experience” of leaders in sites that are traditionally gendered female in non‐standard/public sector settings. Moreover, this paper presents empirical evidence in support of leadership as socially constructed and relational, borne of tension between different temporal, spatial and experiential factors, the on‐going negotiation of which both utilises and transcends masculinized and feminized gender performances. The result is a form of “leading” which is often subtle, difficult to identify and self‐effacing.

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Auditing the impact of implementing the Modern Matron role in an acute teaching trust

Abstract: Implementation of the Modern Matron role has been successful and made improvements in patient care.

Cited by 10 publications

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What works: a realist evaluation case study of intermediaries in infection control practice

What works: a realist evaluation case study of intermediaries in infection control practice

To explore and understand the leadership experiences of modern matrons, within an acute NHS Trust

ModernMatron: a “site” for leadership

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