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Is there a place for servant leadership in nursing?
Abstract
With nursing in the spotlight in 2020, Catherine Best explores the role servant leadership can play in strengthening the profession
As 2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, nursing is in the spotlight. Nurses are well-placed to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which aim to improve health globally. However, in order to do so, high-quality healthcare leadership is needed. Disengaged leaders, high turnover, poor organisational culture and dysfunctional external relations can affect nurses' capacity to deliver optimum care. This article considers the role of the servant leader in bringing together nurses from all nations to speak with one voice in order to positively influence global health.
As a new decade dawns on a new era of nursing, we welcome in 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. This momentous decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) is a sign of the significant change ahead and the increasing recognition of the value of nurses, affirming that: ‘the world needs us’ (Stilwell, 2019).
In 2020 we celebrate the bicentennial of Florence Nightingale (NHS England, 2020). However, that is not all—2020 is also the year in which we applaud the unique contribution that nurses and midwives make to the delivery of safe and effective care; the year in which we draw attention to the often challenging situations in which we work and sometimes live; and the year in which we raise awareness of the considerable investment that still needs to be made to ensure global health for all (WHO, 2020a).
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