Western Governors University EBP C361

 • Make good clinical decisions based on safety, quality, cost, legal, and ethical aspects of care.  • Promote evidence-based practice (see Chapter 6).  • Promote patient safety and quality improvement in the work environment.  • Coordinate patient care activities for the interprofessional team.  • Promote staff satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and overall unit productivity.  • Create and sustain trust between and among managers and staff.  • Actively manage the process of change through good communication, staff involvement, training, sustained attention, and measurement and feedback.  • Provide leadership to maintain compliance with governmental regulations and accreditation standards. Leadership occurs any time a person attempts to influence the beliefs, opinions, or behaviors of a person or group (Hersey and Blanchard, 1988). Leadership is a combination of intrinsic personality traits, learned leadership skills, and characteristics of the situation. The function of a leader is to guide people and groups to accomplish common go Leadership is the ability to guide or influence others, whereas management is the coordination of resources (time, people, supplies) to achieve outcomes Following are some strategies the nurse manager can use to work with informal leaders:  •Identify the informal leaders in the work team, and develop an understanding of their source of power (see sources of power in the previous section).