How leadership matters

Abstract

How leadership matters18 October 2021 • Nursing Management www.nursingmanagement.com along with implications for nurse leaders seeking to understand the impact of clinical nurses' perceptions of their supervisors' actions, especially their relational leadership competencies.

Bold inquiry into relational leadership

“…RL nurtures employee engagement and healthy work environments. 6 Raso: You bring up two workforce outcomes important to our Nursing Management readers and their staff: employee engagement and healthy work environments. Both are needed to achieve positive patient outcomes.…”

“…It recognizes that effective leadership is rooted in positive interpersonal interactions, a sense of trust, and understanding the needs and strengths of team members. RL nurtures employee engagement and healthy work environments 6…”

Nurse manager succession planning for unit health and well-being

“…Similarly, it has been stated that development programs for leaders often focus on tasks related to the skills of managing and leading, such as how to create a budget, how to manage finances, labor procurement, and resource allocation, instead of much needed relational competencies 5. Clinical nurses surveyed about the manager's effect on the work environment most frequently responded with the importance of relational competencies.…”