Management and leadership are vital to the delivery of good health services. Both are similar in some aspecst but they may involve different types of outlook, skills, and behaviors. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), good managers should strive to be good leaders and good leaders, need management skills to be effective (World Health Organization, 2019).
Leaders have a vision of what can be achieved and then communicate this to others. Leaders evolve strategies for actualizing the vision through motivating others and seeking out resources. Managers ensure that the available resources are well organized and applied to produce the best results (WHO, 2019). NUR 514 Topic 2 DQ 1 From your experience in the health care industry, What Is The Difference Between Leadership And Management?
Leadership is often viewed as an art, not science and management on the other hand, is often thought of as a science as it involves a series of logical steps that can be followed to implement whatever the role demands. In my experience in the health care field, leaders differ from managers in a variety of ways. Leaders are active in formulating goals and objectives for the employees who work for them and strive to seek out efficiency. Managers work to accomplish the tasks and usually will continue to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
Alejandro informative and insightful post on COVD-19 and healthcare shortage. According to Wiley Online Library. Nurses experience high levels of burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic, while several sociodemographic, social and occupational factors affect this burnout. The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant challenge for nurses worldwide and learning lessons from the first wave is imperative to prepare better strategies for the subsequent waves.
Several measures could be introduced to mitigate the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses, e.g. screening for mental health illness and early supportive interventions for high-risk nurses, immediate access to mental health care services, designated rest periods, social support through hospital support groups to reduce feelings of isolation, sufficient personal protective equipment for all nurses to provide security etc. NUR 514 Topic 2 DQ 1 From your experience in the health care industry, What Is The Difference Between Leadership And Management?
As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting worldwide and there are predictions for the following waves in the near future, there is a need to decrease nurses’ burnout and improve their mental health. Governments, health care organizations, and policymakers should act in this direction to prepare health care systems, individuals and nurses for a better response against the COVID-19 pandemic. NUR 514 Topic 2 DQ 1 From your experience in the health care industry, What Is The Difference Between Leadership And Management?
It is worth noting that protective factors regarding nurses’ burnout were found in some studies such as belief in readiness to cope with COVID-19 outbreak, willingness to participate in frontline work, prior training and experience in COVID-19 patients’ management, protection safety during the clinical work, and increased social support (García & Calvo, 2020; Hu et al., 2020). Since burnout is a multifactorial issue researchers should emphasize the importance of protective factors revealing at least the most important of them.
Wiley Online Library https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jan.14839
García, M., & Calvo, A. (2020). The threat of COVID-19 and its influence on nursing staff burnout. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(2), 832– 844. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14642
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