Nursing Leadership From the Bedside to the Boardroom

Abstract

Experienced acute and critical care nurses are poised to be high-impact leaders in the current, ever-changing health care landscape. These professionals need new skills to carry them to the next level, as they are called on to lead in a new age filled with increasing complexities. This article provides strategies for nurses to consider and reflect on throughout their leadership journey.

Clinical leadership, structural empowerment and psychological empowerment of registered nurses working in an emergency department

“…At departmental levels, nurse leaders are involved in daily operational decisions such as patient flow and staffing resource, quality improvement and risk monitoring to maintain safe care delivery (Thompson, Hoffman, & Sereika, ). At the patient interface, nurses lead patients, their families and multi‐disciplinary teams on a daily basis through the patient journey to achieve positive patient outcomes (Pate, ).…”

Leader empowering behaviour: relationships with nurse and patient outcomes

“…Registered nurses work collaboratively with patients, families and interprofessional team members to achieve positive outcomes (Connolly et al , 2018; Pate, 2013). In this research, we focused on the relationship between LEB and nurses’ self-efficacy to perform their work as interprofessional team members.…”