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There is a word limit of 1500 words. Use your computer to total the number of words used in your assignment. However, do not include the reference list at the end of your assignment in the word count. In-text citations will be included in the additional 10% word count. If you exceed the word limit by more than 10% the marker will stop marking at 1500 words plus 10%.

Aim:
This assessment provides the student the opportunity to evaluate leadership styles in relation to patient safety.

Details:

Scenario

You are working as a new graduate nurse/ new graduate midwife in your chosen area of the hospital. You are finding the work a little challenging but feel supported by a positive culture and an engaged mentor. Your ward values ongoing education. There is an in-service roster that requires each nurse/ midwife to give a presentation and your turn is in one month. Your topic is the relationship between leadership style and patient safety. As part of your preparation for this presentation you do some research through the hospital library and you are able to call on some of the content covered in the third year of your degree.

Write an essay that discusses the relationship between leadership styles and patient safety.

The essay needs to include:

A definition of the terms ’leadership’ and ’patient safety’ and an examination of the relationship between the two.

A concise description of at least two leadership styles

A critical analysis of two ( or more) leadership styles and how such styles may or may not promote patient safety. Use one specific patient safety issue (for example medication safety, falls, recognition of the deteriorating patient or prevention of deep venous thrombosis) as an example to illustrate your discussion.

Resources:

Learning materials available on the vUWS site. Tutorial discussions and activities
Individual library searches of relevant literature

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Marking Criteria:

Criteria	High Distinction	Distinction	Credit	Pass	Unsatisfactory
Introduction	The introduction includes an expertly constructed thesis, and provides an exceptional, clear, comprehensive and concise overview of all major concepts and issues to be addressed in the body of the work.	The introduction includes a well-constructed thesis, and provides a very good, clear, comprehensive and concise overview of all major concepts and issues to be addressed in the body of the work.	The introduction includes a clear thesis, and provides a good, clear and concise overview of most major concepts and issues to be addressed in the body of the work.	The introduction states the thesis of the essay, but it may not be clear or well-constructed. The introduction provides an adequate overview of some of the major concepts and issues to be addressed in the body of the work	The introduction is absent or inadequate. The introduction does not include a thesis, and/or the overview of major concepts. The issues to be addressed in the body of the work may be absent or poorly addressed.
Mark 5	4.5-5	4	3.5	2.5-3	≤2
Definition of leadership and definition of patient safety	Excellent, clear, concise, definitions Expert substantiation from relevant, current high quality academic literature	Very good, clear, concise, definitions. Very good substantiation from relevant, current, quality academic literature.	Good, clear, concise definitions. Good substantiation from relevant, current academic literature	Satisfactory definitions. There may be some lack of clarity in defining patient safety, but does not impede meaning and accuracy. Adequate substantiation from current relevant academic literature.	Inadequate definition. The definition lacks clarity impeding adequate communication of ideas and meaning. Absent or inadequate substantiation from current, relevant academic literature.
Mark 5	4.5-5	4	3.5	2.5-3	≤2
A concise description at least 2 leadership styles	Exceptional description of at least 2 leadership styles and their characteristics Expert substantiation from relevant, current high quality academic literature	Very good description of at least 2 leadership styles and their characteristics. Very good substantiation from relevant, current, quality academic literature.	Good description of at least 2 leadership styles and their characteristics. Good substantiation from relevant, current academic literature	Satisfactory description of at least 2 leadership styles and their characteristics. Adequate substantiation from current relevant academic literature.	Absent or inadequate or superficial description of leader styles and their characteristics or less than 2 leadership styles described. Absent or inadequate substantiation from current, relevant academic literature.
Mark 5	4.5-5	4	3.5	2.5-3	≤2
A discussion of the relationship between leadership and patient safety	Excellent, clear, concise, comprehensive discussion. Expert substantiation from relevant, current high quality academic literature	Very good, clear, concise, comprehensive discussion Very good substantiation from relevant, current, quality academic literature.	Good, clear, concise discussion Good substantiation from relevant, current academic literature	Satisfactory discussion. There may be some lack of clarity in describing the relationship with leadership, but does not impede meaning or accuracy. Adequate substantiation from current relevant academic literature.	Inadequate description of the relationship between leadership and patient safety and quality. The discussion lacks clarity, impeding adequate communication of ideas and meaning. Absent or inadequate substantiation from current, relevant academic literature.
Mark 10	8.5-10	7.5-8	6.5-7	5-6	≤4.5

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Criteria	High Distinction	Distinction	Credit	Pass	Unsatisfactory
A critical analysis of two (or more) leadership styles and how they may or may not promote patient safety using a specific issue to illustrate the discussion	Exceptional, innovative, original, concise and clear critical analysis of two (or more) leadership styles and how they could effectively be applied to promote patient safety in one specific instance in the hospital inpatient setting Expert substantiation from relevant, current high quality academic literature	Very good, clear, and concise critical analysis of two (or more) leadership styles and how they could effectively be applied to promote patient safety in one specific instance in the hospital inpatient setting Very good substantiation from relevant, current, quality academic literature.	Good, clear and concise critical analysis of two (or more) leadership styles and how they could effectively be applied to promote patient safety in one specific instance in the hospital inpatient setting Good substantiation from relevant, current academic literature	Satisfactory critical analysis of two (or more) leadership styles and how they could effectively be applied to promote patient safety in one specific instance in the hospital inpatient setting Adequate substantiation from current relevant academic literature.	Absent or inadequate analysis of two (or more) leadership styles and how they could effectively be applied to promote patient safety in one specific instance in the hospital inpatient setting Absent or inadequate substantiation from current, relevant academic literature.
Mark 10	8.5-10	7.5-8	6.5-7	5-6	≤4.5
Conclusion	Outstanding, clear, concise, conclusion, which includes original pertinent insights; draws upon all significant points raised in the essay and draws these together in an expert manner.	Provides a very good, clear, concise, organized conclusion, which succinctly and meaningfully summarizes all the main points raised in the essay and draws these together in a very good manner.	Provides a good, clear, concise, organized conclusion, which summarizes most of the main points raised in the essay and draws these together in a good manner.	Provides an adequate conclusion, with satisfactory support for preceding arguments and significant points in the essay. Meets the minimum requirements for a satisfactory conclusion.	The conclusion is unclear or absent. The conclusion fails to satisfy the minimum requirements for a conclusion of an essay.
Mark 5	4.5-5	4	3.5	2.5-3	≤2
Presentation Style, Academic writing style and Length	Outstanding, publishable level of writing style, and use of language evidenced.	Very good layout, writing style and use of language. No errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation or writing style.	Good layout and effective writing style and use of language. Minimal errors in grammar, punctuation, sentence construction, paragraph construction or spelling.	Satisfactory layout and writing style. Limited vocabulary, with minor errors in grammar, or spelling, or sentence structure, or paragraph structure that do not impede meaning.	Poor presentation and layout noted .Poor writing style with errors in expression, sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling and punctuation that impede meaning.
Mark 5	4.5-5	4	3.5	2.5-3	≤2
Referencing	Flawless referencing, with all references adequately and correctly given, both in text and in final reference list according to designated APA style. Adheres to word limit	Very good referencing, with adequate and correct references given both in text and in final reference list according to designated APA style. Adheres to word limit.	Good referencing, with very few minor referencing style errors and following designated APA conventions both in text and in final reference list. Adheres to word limit.	Some minor referencing style errors, but generally satisfactory, following designated APA conventions both in text and in final reference list. Adheres to word limit.	Absent or unsatisfactory, incorrect or inadequate referencing. Poor referencing in-text and/or in final reference list. Incorrect referencing style used. May fail to adhere to word limit.
Mark 5	4.5-5	4	3.5	2.5-3	≤2

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Rimsha · Accepted Answer

Running Head: RELATION BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE & PATIENT SAFETY 	1
RELATION BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE & PATIENT SAFETY	2
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE AND PATIENT SAFETY
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Definition of leadership and patient safety	3
Leadership styles	4
Democratic leadership style	4
Transformational leadership style	4
Relationship between leadership and patient safety	5
Impact of leadership style on patient safety	6
Conclusion	7
References	8
Introduction
	Safety of the patient is prime duty of the healthcare professionals. There are many situations where patient safety can come under threat if nurses handling the patients failed to show their leadership skills. For example, in emergency room, when staff is low, a sudden outbreak can increase number of patients in the hospital. Use of strong leadership can help the healthcare professionals to manage the situation and keep the healthcare setting in order. It has been seen that leadership plays important role in healthcare professional. Nurses often show leadership skills to manage patients and their families during critical working hours. The following essay identifies the relationship between leadership and patient safety. 
Definition of leadership and patient safety
	As suggested by Fischer (2016), leadership can be defined as the process of leading group of people in a situation or in an organization. Leadership skills can be developed in the person over the period. One cannot say that leaders are born only. Some people are natural leaders. They show the traits of leadership from beginning whether in school as representative or college captain. 
Some people developed the leadership skills with experience and practice. Leadership plays very important role in development of people in professional life. In context of nursing professionals, nurses must deal with large number of people. They guide the patients, families, and fellow colleagues as well as in certain situations they need to take the first step. Having the leadership skills in nursing practice is helpful for nurses in handling people in any situation.
	As noted by Marx (2019), patient safety can be defined as the development of the culture in the healthcare setting where patients cannot be harmed in any way. Although, the prime focus of nursing professionals is to provide the high-quality care to the patient and ensure their safety, there are situations, in which safety of the patients get hampered. For example, medication errors caused by nurses put the life of patients in to danger. In acute care settings, high rates of fall are observed among elderly patients. In nursing profession, nurses have duty to provide safe environment to the patient so that they can recover early. 
Leadership styles 
	It has been seen that one leadership style cannot be enough or applied in all the situations. A person who act as a leader must be aware of leadership style, which can be used in a specific situation. Leaders can adopt different leadership styles in their practice or they can develop a leadership style over a period, which they can modify as per the situation. 
There are leadership styles, which are effective and can be adopt in nursing professional. As mentioned by Yahaya and Ebrahim (2016), leadership style can be defined as method, which can be used by leaders to provide direction, implement plan, and motivates people. Most of the people adopt the leadership style as per their profession. 
Democratic leadership style
	As suggested by Iqbal,

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