NSG 6620 Week 7 Discussion 1: Nurse Leader and Organizational Culture of Caring

Caring is the primary reason nurses enter the field of nursing, and the concept of caring is often thought of as the essence of nursing. Not only do nurses care for patients but they also have to care for each other. Sometimes, nurses tend to focus so much on patients and their families that they forget to care for themselves and one another. This is a major source of compassion fatigue causing nurses to leave the healthcare organization or, worse yet, to totally leave the nursing profession.

Compassion fatigue is the cumulative impact of physical, emotional, and psychological exposure to trauma, stressful events, and the care for patients or nursing colleagues who face many challenges. Compassion fatigue can sabotage nurses in healthcare organizations as it is challenging, and nurses may be harmed by the very work to which they are so devoted. Nurses must be aware of what it means to create a community within the workplace and to offer support and resources to retain nurses the organization has worked so diligently to recruit.

Using the readings for the week, the South University Online Library, and the Internet, respond to the following:

Describe the role of the nursing leader in building a community and creating joy in the workplace.

How does an effective leader create an organizational culture of caring, respect, and dignity for all? Identify one strategy you would use in your own healthcare organization.

Describe two negative outcomes on recruitment and retention of nurses when a culture of community does not exist in the healthcare workplace.

Comment on the postings of at least two peers.

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Evaluation Criteria:

Described the role of the nursing leader in building a community and creating joy in the workplace.

Explained how an effective leader creates an organizational culture of caring, respect, and dignity for all, and identified one strategy you would use in your own healthcare organization.

Described two negative outcomes on recruitment and retention of nurses when a culture of community does not exist in the healthcare workplace.

Justified your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.

Commented on the postings of at least two peers.