Attached Assignment question and marking rubric

Running Head: NURSE AS A LEADER IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION    1
NURSE AS A LEADER IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION    9
NURSE AS A LEADER IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Leadership Styles and Rationale for Choosing Them    3
Transformational Leadership Style    3
Transactional Leadership Style    4
Registered Nurse (RN)’s Responsibilities and Methods to Lead a Team for Quality Care    5
Role Modelling or Teaching Provided by Team Leader during the Shift    7
RN standards of practice that demonstrated to ensure quality patient care    8
Conclusion    8
References    10
Introduction
    Nurses are one of the pillars of the healthcare industry. Nurses are responsible for providing the high-quality care to the patients and improve their health. It has been seen that it is expected from the nurses to act as a leader and handle the situation especially in case of crisis. It must be noted that a nurse can act like a leader when consists of leadership qualities, style and behavior. As suggested by Northouse (2018), leadership can be defined as method, in which an individual act as leader and lead the group of people in an organization or during crisis. Apart from this, it has been seen that some people have leadership qualities since the beginning, whereas others develop the leadership qualities with time.
It must be noted that leadership skills can developed with practice. In nursing practice, when nurses failed to show the leadership qualities, they often considered incapable for their jobs because nursing job demands leadership, as nurses have to deal with different patients, their families and guide them or communicate with them. Since nurses need to deal with many things, it is necessary for them to act as a leader and manage all the things. It must be noted that development of the leadership style depends upon the personality of the individual or the way they handle the situation.
Leadership Styles and Rationale for Choosing Them
    The two leadership styles, which are selected, are transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style.
Transformational Leadership Style
    The transformational leadership style can be defined as the leadership style, in which leader tried to
ing positive change in the life of the people who followed the approach. In this style, the leader becomes successful in enhancing the motivation, performance and morale of the followers using wide range of the mechanism. As suggested by Berkovich (2016), it has been seen that transforming approach helps in redesigning the values and perception, support in changing expectations, aspiration of the followers.
Transforming leaders set the moral example and work towards the benefit of people who are dependent on the, whether they are team, organization, or community. As mentioned by Banks, McCauley, Gardner and Guler (2016), transforming leaders follow four principles as part of their leadership approach. These approaches include inspirational motivation, idealized influence, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration. In inspirational motivation, leaders help in promotion of the set vision of the followers, set the values and mission for them. Transformational leader motivates the employees as well as challenges them. They guide their followers whenever they are stuck and emphasize on commitment and teamwork.
In intellectual stimulation, leaders encourage fellow team members to become innovative and creative. Transformational leader never criticizes its follower in public.
As stated by Tepper et al. (2018), in idealized influence, transformational leader can influence followers by acting as a role model in a situation. Leaders using transformational style, earn the trust and respect through their course of actions. They earned the highest ethical position for their conduct. In individualized consideration, leader acts as a guide for followers and reward them for their efforts.
Transactional Leadership Style
The transactional leadership style can be defined as the style, in which leaders are given the main focus as leaders play the role of motivating group members to perform well in the situation or at their work based on the punishment and incentives given for the work. In this style, leader defines the set of rewards or punishment, which can be helpful in persuading the group of people to work well and performed exceptionally.
This leadership style includes three principles, which is organizing, short-term planning and controlling. As noted by Cho, Shin, Billing and Bhagat (2019), in organizing, leaders help in setting the plans of the team members and conduct the regular meetings, which resulted into discussion of the goals and objectives of each team member. In controlling, leaders give guidance to the group about the set of rules, based on which work must be done. It includes information about acceptable actions and unacceptable actions (Dusik-Fenton & Peabody, 2018).
In short-term planning, leader focused...