Transformational Leadership in Nursing: Current Perspectives

Today's nurses as a leader continuously face the challenge of meeting high expectations and adapting to change. Nursing leadership is one of the single most important factors in motivating and inspiring nurses to practice at the top of their licensure. As nurse leaders become increasingly aware of the correlation between a stronger team and stronger achievement in a patient quality & safety, understanding how to incorporate steps for strategic, long term success into day to day practice is a key. Transformational leadership, the preferred management style of management of hospitals, has been shown to transform entire teams to a higher level of practice. While nurses are generally understanding of health care industry?s nature of change, they will be better prepared for success in their roles if leadership is able to implement change in a way that allows the unit/team to see the overall benefit of the change, in the least disruptive way possible, when we applies will be benefit to whole nursing profession. It encourages to nurses to give their best to profession, transformational leaders are silent in crowd, they involved in all work and doing a job and make a change.