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Emotional Competence in Nurse Leaders
Emotional competence is one of the most important attributes for every leader regardless of their industry or affiliation. Emotional competence helps in the interactions between a leader and the team or group members. In order to offer proper and just leadership, the leader needs to ascribe or demonstrate a set of qualities (Goh et al., 2018). The two main qualities that depict a leader as emotionally competent include self-awareness and integrity. These two features of leadership can help ensure that leaders meet the needs of the group in a more effective manner.
Self-awareness is the ability of the leader to understand their strengths and weaknesses and how they impact the performance of the team and that of themselves (Di Lorenzo Rosaria et al., 2019). Having proper self-awareness can increase the impact that a leader has on the team. They would be able to showcase their abilities to understand the members of the team and lead with empathy. On the other hand, integrity as leadership behavior to demonstrate emotional competence improves the overall conduct of the leader. Integrity ensures that the leader acts with fairness and justice to all members and also upholds positive ethical standards.
Nurse leaders can develop increased expertise for each of the two characteristics and ensure they deliver better leadership for their teams. For instance, self-awareness can be used by leaders to improve their expertise in proper team management and conflict resolution. The expertise is relevant in dealing with staff and patients with diverse cultures and preferences (Hughes, 2018). Self-awareness also helps the leader develop better communication with the team members and management of emotions both positive and negative. Integrity is also critical in improving leadership expertise by ensuring the act and depict themselves in an ethical manner.
References
Di Lorenzo Rosaria, V. G., Giulia, S., & Paola, F. (2019). Emotional intelligence, empathy, and alexithymia: a cross-sectional survey on emotional competence in a group of nursing students. Acta Bio Medica: Atenei Parmensis, 90(Suppl 4), 32.
Goh, A. M. J., Ang, S. Y., & Della, P. R. (2018). Leadership style of nurse managers as perceived by registered nurses: A cross-sectional survey. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 27(3), 205-210.
Hughes, V. (2018). Authentic leadership: Practices to promote integrity. Journal of Christian Nursing, 35(2), E28-E31.
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