1. Leadership
Felicel Barredo, RN

2. Leadership defined:
• Able to Inspire her followers or
specifically her nursing staff to do
things beyond their call of duty
• Able to lift the staff’s Morale, and
• Able to motivate the nursing staff to
think of a solution to an existing
problem

3. Attributes of a GOOD LEADER
• Self-awareness
• Self-confidence
• Advocacy
• Accountability

4. L- Lead, Love, Learn
E- Enthusiastic, Energetic
A- Assertive, Achiever
D- Dedicated, Desirous
E- Effective, Efficient
R- Responsible, respectful

5. Nursing Leadership
• The process where the nurse
influences one or more persons to
achieve specific goals in the provision
of nursing care of one or more
patients
• It is a multidimensional process

6. LEADERSHIP STYLES

7. Autocratic
• Nurse leader-manager retains as
much power and decision-making
authority as possible.

8. Bureaucratic
• “by the book”
• according to procedure or policy

9. Democratic/Participative
• Encourages employees to be part of
the decision making.
• Nurses are well-informed about
everything that affects their work.
• Share in the decision making and
problem solving responsibilities.

10. Laissez-Faire
• “hands-off” style
• Little/no direction from the leader
and the nursing staff has much
freedom as possible.

11. LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT

12. Management
• The process of leading and directing
all or part of an organization, often a
business, through the deployment
and manipulation of resources.

13. Leadership
• A management skill that focuses on
the development and deployment of
vision, mission, and strategy as well
as the creation of a motivated
workforce
• Roles are inherent in leadership