The Demeanor of Effective Clinical Leaders During
Stressful or Crisis Situations
Participants identified that effective clinical leaders in mental
health nursing have a general deportment of calmness and
confidence in the clinical area and this demeanor had a positive
effect on others, including staff and clients. For example:
Confident – confident, self-assured . . . a good sense of
themselves.Very considered and calm and not buying into
that expressed emotions, sort of, situation, but thinking
about things in a systematic and well planned thought out
structured sort of way, I guess. And you don’t see them
flustered . . .