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Leadership Characteristics

 1.  Leadership requires personal mastery – Nurses demonstrate leadership when they show competence and mastery in the tasks they perform. Nurses are deemed competent by means of a license to practice nursing (NLN 2010).

2. Leadership is about values – A leader has to have values, those they are leading follow these values  and learn from their leaders. 

3.  Leadership is about service – Not only are you serving patients, you are serving as a go to for your team of employees. 

4.  Leadership is about people and relationships – If you don't have a good relationship with your peers, you team, the people around you, your workplace will be miserable. If the charge nurse for the shift doesn't have a good relationship with his/her peers, the team will not function well and has potential to impact patient care. 

5.   Leadership is contextual – relating what you're doing in your leadership to the circumstances is important, it needs to make sense and have the most benefit for the greater good possible. 

6.   Leadership is about the management of meaning – A nurse needs to have meaning behind management, otherwise a "power trip" could take place. 

7.  Leadership is about balance – I think this is a big one for nurses. There is so much of a balancing act that takes place, especially when it comes to time management. 

8.  Leadership is about continuous learning and improvement –If a person doesn't continue to learn and improve, the likelihood of them being an affective leader is not very high. 

9.  Leadership is about effective decision making – Decisions have to be effective otherwise they are not going to better the team. 

10. Leadership is a political process – There is politics in all aspects of life, including leadership and nursing. 

11.  Leadership is about modeling – Setting up a model for a leadership to be the best it can be, having a reason behind what you are doing and laying it out in a model before you implement it. 

12.   Leadership is about integrity - If you don't have integrity your leadership will most likely fail, I think this is one of the biggest components of a healthy leadership. 

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