Getting Buzzed on Innovative Leadership

Getting buzzed on innovative leadership relates to a professional high that RNs experience when they take personal responsibility for their areas of authority and are accountable for their actions to improve the outcomes of perioperative patients. Transformational leadership can be dened as a style...

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Published in:AORN journal 2015-04, Vol.101 (4), p.401-403
Main Author: Baker, Joy Don, PhD, RN-BC, CNOR, CNE, NEA-BC
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
Health care
Humans
Leadership
Nurses
Nursing
Organizational Objectives
Patients
Perianesthesia
Perioperative Nursing - organization & administration
Surgery
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Summary:Getting buzzed on innovative leadership relates to a professional high that RNs experience when they take personal responsibility for their areas of authority and are accountable for their actions to improve the outcomes of perioperative patients. Transformational leadership can be dened as a style of leadership that heightens consciousness of collective interest among the organizations members and helps them to achieve their collective goals.1(p1040) The individual leadership actions of nurses and other health care providers affect the extent of what they can control and contribute to the practice of nursing and optimal perioperative care, whether the goal is to improve the patients health or arrest the progress of a disease state (eg, the West Nile virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS], methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA], the Ebola virus affecting nurses and other health care workers in the United States). When circulating for a patients procedure, if nurses envision the patient as a family member, they are truly able to do and be more as a leader in each moment with that one patient. By envisioning the outcomes of the care they provide, nurses exercise transformational leadership. Whether serving as an RN circulator or scrub person or picking up a mop to clean the room for the next patient, the fastidious focus of nurses on the effects of their actions on the patient is tremendous.
ISSN:0001-2092
1878-0369
DOI:10.1016/j.aorn.2015.01.020