DQ 1 :What is the difference between leadership and management?

Two of the three terms are familiar and the third is where this prompt earns its place. Management is a formal role with delegated authority over resources, schedules and compliance. Leadership is influence granted by followers, which is why it can be held without a title and lost while holding one. Headship is the case the prompt adds: occupancy of a position of authority without the followership that makes it leadership. A head is obeyed because of the org chart, and the distinction matters because a great deal of organisational unhappiness comes from a head who believes they are leading. Say what tells the difference — whether people act when the head is absent, whether they bring problems forward or route around, whether compliance survives the end of the audit — and you have answered the part of this prompt most posts skip entirely. The third term is the one worth spending words on, because it names something everyone has experienced.

The second demand is that your rationale on whether all nurses should be considered leaders must use nursing theory, which rules out answering from conviction. There is a defensible yes: if leadership is influence rather than position, then every nurse influences patients, families and colleagues, and the professional standards for the discipline treat leadership as a competency of all registered nurses rather than of managers. Theory supports that — the self-care deficit tradition casts the nurse as the agent who acts where a patient's own agency falls short, which is influence by any reading, and caring theory makes the nurse the party who creates the conditions for healing. There is also a defensible no: if leadership requires a followership that grants it, the term empties when applied to everyone. Take a position, ground it in a theory, and say what it implies for how leadership is taught.