Managers are responsible for organising workloads and employees, and ensuring wards have the right balance of skills. Juliana Thompson explains how senior nurses can integrate their leadership and management roles to achieve these goals
Staffing problems can arise because of poor delegation skills or a failure by leaders to respond appropriately to economic factors and patient demographics. Training dilemmas, meanwhile, can arise because of managers’ confusion about what constitutes ‘training’ and what constitutes ‘education’, and where responsibility of provision lies, with the consequence that they neglect these activities. This article uses Kouzes and Posner’s (
Nursing Management. 18, 10, 21-24. doi: 10.7748/nm2012.03.18.10.21.c8958
Correspondencejuliana2.thompson@northumbria.ac.uk
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to double blind peer review
Conflict of interestNone declared
Keywords :
Leadership - management - leadership model - staffing - training
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