This document discusses the role of research, leadership, and management in nursing. It defines nursing research as systematic inquiry designed to develop knowledge about issues important to nurses. Research is important as it contributes to the development of nursing knowledge, helps define nursing's unique role, and allows nurses to make more informed decisions. The document also defines leadership as the ability to influence others toward goals, and management as planning, organizing, and overseeing work. Leadership and management are needed in nursing to align nursing outcomes with organizational goals, ensure high quality care delivery, and develop a healthy work environment through staff training and access to resources. Strong nursing leadership is important at all levels of an organization.

1. ROLE OF RESEARCH,
LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT IN
NURSING
Mrs. AMRITA ROY
M.SC PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
NIMHANS,BANGALORE

2. RESEARCH IN NURSING

3. DEFINITION
According to Polit and Beck (2006), nursing
research is:
“Systematic inquiry designed to develop
knowledge about issues of importance to
nurses, including nursing practice, nursing
education, and nursing administration. ”

4. IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH
IN NURSING
1. Research is an important tool for the
continual development of a relevant
body of knowledge in nursing.
2. Research generates information from nursing
investigations which help define the unique role
of nursing as a profession.
3. Professional accountability of nurses to their
clients is demonstrated when nurses incorporate
research evidence into their clinical decisions.

5. 4. Research facilitates evaluation of the efficacy of
nurses practice which may articulate their role in
the delivery of health services.
5. With research, costly trial-and-error and even
unsafe interventions are avoided.
6. Research may allow nurses to make more
informed decisions as each phase of the nursing
process is clarified through research.
7. Research also enables nurses to understand a
particular nursing situation about which little is
known.

6. ROLE OF RESEARCH IN NURSING
Fills the gaps in knowledge and practice
Provide basis for professionalism and
professional accountability
Improves standards of nursing
education

7. ROLE OF RESEARCH IN NURSING
Discovering new measures of nursing
practice
Moulds attitudes, competencies and skills
Meeting the changing societal needs

8. LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT
IN NURSING

9. DFINITION
• ‘Leadership…is the ability to influence people
toward attainment of goals.’
- (Daft, 2000)
• ‘Leadership involves the use of interpersonal
skills to influence others to accomplish a
specific goal.’
- (Sullivan and Garland, 2010)

10. DEFINITION
• According to F.W. Taylor, "Management is the
art of knowing what you want to do and then
seeing that they do it in the best and the
cheapest may.“
• In the words of Henry Fayol – “ To manage is
to forecast and to plan, to organise, to
command, to co-ordinate and to control”.

11. Hughes et al (2006) make the following
distinctions between managers and leaders:
■ Managers administer, leaders innovate
■ Managers maintain, leaders develop
■ Managers control, leaders inspire
■ Managers have a short-term view, leaders
have a long-term view
■ Managers initiate, leaders originate
■ Managers accept the status quo, leaders
challenge it

12. NEED OF LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT
• High-quality health services require leadership
& skilled management.
• Leaders rise out of the need to improve a
situation. Managers take over the day-to-day
functions required to sustain the improvement.
• They are important for the successful
introduction and implementation of advanced
practice nursing roles.

13. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT IN NURSING
 Leadership and management helps to align
the nursing outcomes with the organizational
goals.
 The establishment of a healthy work
environment requires strong nursing
leadership at all levels of the organization.

14.  Leadership and management ensure that
care delivery aligns with the highest quality
of care:
– Understand key quality and safety improvement
measures.
– Lead staff training to ensure the safest care for
patients.
– Ensure staff access to necessary equipment.

15.  The positive relationship between type of
leadership and satisfaction of staff is
supported by research (Faila & Stichler,
2008).
 There is a need for improved leadership to
improve staff perceptions of leadership
support and reduce turnover in critical care
units (Ulrich et al. 2009).

16.  In a system where demand frequently
outpaces financial and human resources,
hospital and quality performance is widely
scrutinized and patient outcomes are
considered a direct reflection of a nurse
manager's effectiveness in fulfilling the role.

17.  Given the impact of the nurse manager on
retention, satisfaction, productivity, and
outcomes, organizations are wise to seek
ways to better understand this critical role
and foster an organizational climate that
develops, engages, and empowers nurse
managers.

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