... setting and achieving of goals. This will, in turn, have implications for the quality of patient care. I examined the role of the registered nurse to understand how practise and client safety can be maintained by adhering to competency standards. In addition, transformational leadership was examined to understand how this style of leadership functions and to determine how it could benefit the nursing profession. Professional competencies and transformational leadership theories were then combined to reflect on a scenario to see how, when used together, an improved outcome could be achieved for all involved, especially the client. . Transformational Leadership could be one answer to the question; How do you transform organisations or the staff within them to work in a more effective or efficient fashion? Those who support transformational leadership believe it to be much more than a passing fad. Embracing this style of Leadership has been described as 'the key ...

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