Lopez Sarah, Freeman Michelle
Staff Nurse, Windsor Regional Hospital, Nursing Instructor, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont). 2018 Sep;31(3):61-70. doi: 10.12927/cjnl.2018.25676.
The nursing profession has long acknowledged the importance of leadership and like many other professions has been criticized as "leader-centric." The role of leadership is to influence followers towards a common goal. Leaders, therefore, must have a clear understanding of followership, including the factors that promote followers' effectiveness and engagement. They must be able to identify following and non-following behaviours, and they must practice leadership styles that support effective followership. Although nurse authors in the 1980s and early 1990s advocated for the inclusion of followership in nursing education and practice, the role has received little attention. Currently, it is not included in standards and guidelines, and there are few nursing research studies on this topic. Our understanding of leadership is incomplete without also understanding followership; without the following role, there is no leadership role. The purpose of this article is to focus the lens on followership, clarify what it is, outline the different styles, explain the importance of the role to nursing and offer recommendations that guide its integration into the nursing profession.
长期以来，护理行业一直承认领导力的重要性，并且像许多其他行业一样，被批评为“以领导者为中心”。领导的作用是影响追随者朝着共同目标前进。因此，领导者必须清楚地了解追随者的情况，包括促进追随者效率和参与度的因素。他们必须能够识别追随和不追随的行为，并且必须采用支持有效追随的领导风格。尽管20世纪80年代和90年代初的护士作者主张将追随纳入护理教育和实践中，但这一角色却很少受到关注。目前，它未被纳入标准和指南中，关于这个主题的护理研究也很少。如果不理解追随，我们对领导力的理解就是不完整的；没有追随的角色，就没有领导的角色。本文的目的是聚焦于追随，阐明它是什么，概述不同的风格，解释该角色对护理的重要性，并提供指导其融入护理行业的建议。
