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The Need for Leadership
Margaret Lett
Lecturer in Nursing, Australian Catholic University, St Patrick's Campus
Abstract
This paper examined a number of leadership theories and established that Transformation Leadership is often cited as an appropriate leadership model for nursing. Evidence was put forward to suggest that Australian nurses possess many of the attributes considered as consistent with transformational leaders. However, in the future nurses may require leadership skills, such as technical and collaborative skills, beyond what they have at present since it is not known if the future leadership needs of nursing will be met with the transformational model. Suggestions are provided for the development and encouragement of future leaders. Those discussed are the learning organisation and professional practice models.
Keywords
Australian, nursing leadership, transformational leadership, learning organisation, professional practice models
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