Nursing Leadership Role in Pandemic

Abstract

A Pandemic is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region, multiple continents orworldwide, COVID-19 is a large issue worldwide. A good nurse leader is someone who can inspireothers to work together in pursuit of a common goal, such as enhanced patient care. An effectiveleader has a distinctive set of personal qualities; integrity, courage, initiative and an ability to handlestress, and also taking the effort to think critically, set goals and skilfully communicates andcollaborate. Nurse’s leaders are faced with a variety of challenges in pandemics, including managingresources, advanced planning and goal setting, collaborating with other hospital and communityleaders, improving quality measures, cost-effectiveness, reporting to the board of directors, andmany more. Nurses as effective partners of the health care team, of necessity, have to meet thedemands of these changes adequately and appropriately in respect of their expanded and enrichedroles and responsibilities. Nurse leaders, however, are still confined within their nursing orbit, but,today they have to be visible and interactive members of the multi-disciplinary health team with avision and voice that can be heard. Methods: For the present review article collected a databasefrom Google scholar; search and scrutinize studies related to nurse’s leadership role duringpandemic and article related to Covid-19 outbreak, government, community effort and mitigationstrategies in reducing transmission. Result: Because it is a novel pandemic; results suggest thatmore researches are needed in this field related to driven factors, mitigation strategies and supportof governmental and non-governmental organizations. This review article is aimed that nursingleaders must continue to develop plans that can slow or prevent the progress of widespread illnessesand ensures that all client care provided by the team is carried out in keeping with the objectives ofthe health care organisation.