Redefining Healthcare Leadership in the Present Century

Twenty-First Century Leadership

One of the main challenges facing executive nurse leaders in the twenty-first century is the ability to create and lead in the healthcare delivery systems that are quite complex and conducive to many challenges for nurses as well as patients. Some other two challenges include the challenge of adjusting to the always-changing health environment and the ever-rising expectations coupled with the limited resources (Thomson, 2008). The health environment is changing, comprising of the changes like the ill health, treatment, diagnosis, and care activities among the patients, and the daily changes in the causes and emergence of the new challenges of health among the people. The challenge of the increasing expectations has always affected the executive nursing performances and engagements in a bid to influence the systems of delivery and bring success to the set goals and objectives.

Expectations are changing based on the changes in the human state of health, the changing environment, and the overall changes in the management of the limited resources in a bid to achieve the available demands. Three challenges are common in almost every healthcare delivery in the world. Many nurse executives work under stringent measures, based on the demands and the need to offer practical and up-to-date services to the people. Thus, in one way or another, these challenges influence on the general delivery of the nursing systems found within the health institutions. Almost all of the challenges facing the executive nurses are central to the environment today. This means that the environment is the main factor that influences the success of the nursing activities and the systems that are put forth by the health organizations in the world.

Strategies to transform the next generation of nursing professionals creating delivery settings. Nursing is an evolving responsibility in the world today. One key strategy that needs to be involved in dealing with the challenges faced in the process of creating health care delivery settings is to engage proper documentation techniques. Nurse executives often face the prospect of being required to offer proper documentation of the nursing of service delivery procedures and outcomes, dating back to long periods (Joint Commission Resources, Inc., 2005). With a proper documentation technique in the creation of the system delivery for healthcare, the challenges of the changing healthcare environment will not be pressing as they would without documentation. Documentation entails the process of having every occurrence and attempts in the process of offering healthcare. Documentation is a critical aspect of every healthcare facility. With proper documentation, the nurse executives will be able to have a basement from where everything can be handled even with the challenge of the changing environment (Joint Commission Resources, Inc., 2005).