Six Key Leadership Styles In Nursing

There are six key leadership management styles for dealing with violations of the Nurse Practice Act. Leaders must use special skills to create joint and unified work environments when dealing with employees. It is important to understand that each of these leadership styles has an effect on the staff and those in their care.

Quantum leadership is based on the concept where employees become directly involved in decision making as equitable and accountable partners, and managers assume more of an influential facilitative role, rather than one of control (Sullivan, 2017, p. 46). Transactional leadership allows individuals to engage in social interactions expecting to give and receive social, political, and psychological benefits or rewards

A benefit of the Intervention Project (IPN) for Nurses is that when a nurse agrees to participate in IPN, the program assists a nurse to seek appropriate drug or alcohol treatment and after successfully completing the program, the file is closed and kept confidential without any disciplinary action (Smith, 2017, figure 21). By providing this resource and treatment, it allows a nurse to maintain licensure and resume practicing nursing, and results in nurse retention in the profession. Furthermore, IPN provides state-wide access to local nurse support groups (Smith, 2017, figure 21). The risk of the IPN for nurses include, that in most cases, it may not be possible to leave the IPN Program after agreeing to it without giving up your nursing license. This can have an extremely adverse consequence for a nurse, including a report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), exclusion from the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, and debarment from all federal government contracting ("Intervention Project for Nurses (IPN)," 2018). In addition, the IPN program is directly linked to the Florida Board of Nursing and the Agency for Healthcare Administration and means that if a nurse in the IPN program relapses or fails throughout the program, a report to the Florida Board of Nursing and/or the Agency for Healthcare Administration may be made by IPN allowing these agencies to start proceedings against your

As a nurse manager, it is important to show support for an impaired colleague. Transformational leadership goes beyond inspiring and motivating followers and instead emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationship (Sullivan, 2017, p. 46). Transformational leaders appeal to individuals’ better selves by inspiring and using power to instill a belief that followers also have the ability to do exceptional things (Sullivan, 2017, p.