Reflection Of My Clinical Preceptor In John Day

The making of a nurse leader takes education, training, and experience. Whatever the personality trait of a professional nurse, this self-discovery will only be a means to aim in becoming a nurse leader. A professional nurse in leadership is one that is transformational, involved in a professional organization, a change agent, and has a high Emotional Intelligence to be able to manage a team. She is aware and knowledgeable of the inevitable changes occurring in the nursing field. She is highly capable in setting up strategies for conflict resolution and culturally competent with such capacity in achieving high performance in a diverse healthcare team. Most importantly, her leadership promotes

The most common styles she employs are democratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and shared leadership. Her position as a liaison between upper management and the nurse leads contributes to her need to regularly switch from a position of leader to follower and back again, keeping her not only extremely busy, but out of the office for most of the day. To lead her team, she must change tactics all day long, from one task to another. The leadership styles democratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and shared leadership all have one thing in common, these styles allow for the nurse manager to permit her team of nurse leads, the power to lead themselves. The nurse manager is capable of putting large amounts of responsibility in their subordinate’s hands, knowing that they are skilled and qualified to make decisions without interference (Giddens, J., 2013, p.376). These styles tend to work effectively for the Surgical Services Nurse Manager because her team of nurse leads are experienced and capable of performing their jobs with little to no feedback. While each of these three leadership styles: democratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and shared leadership, share some similarities, they are all slightly different, with some being more effective than others. Of the leadership styles she engages in, her use of shared leadership is most effective, while her use of the laissez-faire

In this essay I will discuss the leadership style of 3 nursing leaders, which I chose from Nursing Leadership DVD (Orazietti & Singh, 2014). I will then describe impact the leaders ' style has on improving nursing care, organizational processes, and inter-professional collaboration. In addition, I will provide some examples of a change process or difficult situation which leaders encountered. Finally, I will explain how I have dealt with difficult situation involving my colleague and one of physician in the hospital department where I worked. Throughout this essay I will analyze what leaders should have done differently. 3 Leaders which I have chosen were Debra Bournes from group 1 because of her political and administrative success, Mina Singh from group 2 because she is renowned for her educational style at York University, and Esther Green from group 3 because she is the sound and knowledgeable practitioner.

In healthcare it is very important to have strong leaders, especially in the nursing profession. A nurse leader typically uses several styles of leadership depending on the situation presented; this is known as situational leadership. It is important that the professional nurse choose the right style of leadership for any given situation to ensure their employees are performing at their highest potential. Depending on which leadership style a nurse leader uses, it can affect staff retention and the morale of the employees as well as nurse job satisfaction (Azaare & Gross, 2011.) “Nursing leaders have the responsibility to create and maintain a work environment which not only promotes positive patient outcomes but also

Effective nurse leaders are often flexible and are able to change style of leadership to suit changing circumstances. They ensure that their people are regularly being challenged to grow and learn. Nurses show leadership by giving feedback and empowering others to bring out their best and the opportunity to grow. I believe that good leaders help people to see that what they do makes a difference. Nurse further their education to expand and gain knowledge so they can render excellent quality care that patients deserve. Also, the leaders would also help other nurses to work as a team to help the facility run to deliver high-quality care. A leader, “should think and talk about future trends that will affect the team's work, and make sure you communicate your vision to your team regularly” (Pearce, 2007, p. 25). I vision a leader as someone who can move others in achieving their goals and mission. For instance, our nurse supervisor addresses the

Nowadays, LVN and LPN are communicative more leadership roles, mostly in the skilled nursing facility. The leadership is based on general research of academic and practitioner on leader ship. Susan de wit (2014) said that there are many identified styles of leadership and laissez-faire is a style in which the leader provide little or none direction or supervisor, and prefer to take a hand off approach. That leadership style is not effective in day-to-day management of patient care. The autocratic leadership style is demonstrated when the leader makes all the decision without considering input form staff. That leadership style goal is accomplishment of task efficiently without regard to people. The democratic leadership style is who encourages

Not all nurses go into the profession with leadership ideas. The nursing profession must produce leaders throughout the health care system. Leaders must function as workers, and administrators with leadership qualities, while still meeting their budgets and running effective units with high functioning and happy staff members. They need to trouble shoot necessary and work with the medical faculty while pleasing their staff and the administers.

I believe that to be a leader, you must show you are capable of doing the job you were hired to do. With confidence, you should know your responsibilities and complete them with the utmost care and efficiency. With hard work and dedication, a certain standard will develop for what is expected of every worker. By keeping strong values as a leader, we can set a strong base for our coworker’s to follow. As a registered nurse, this would mean looking at patients with a holistic point of view. The patients you see are not a list of diagnoses, but people with thoughts and feelings who need qualified nurses to guide them

Currently, different types of leadership styles exist in the healthcare industry. Not only does the leader need to be concerned with the employee’s satisfaction, but also the organization. The work must be at an adequate level of performance to be successful. The various leadership styles include autocratic, democratic, strategic, transformational, team, cross-cultural, facilitative, laissez-faire, transactional, coaching, charismatic, and visionary. Results indicate that this nurse has a coaching style of leadership after taking several on-line tests.

Multiple factors directly affect student success on the NCLEX. Lack of graduate success on the NCLEX affects the nursing shortage and the health care system as a whole. The University of New Mexico College of Nursing UNMCON has experienced declining results on the NCLEX. Continuation of this situation places the program in a perilous position. This negative issue has prompted the UNMCON to elicit solutions to this problem. This has exposed some glaring issues with leadership and faculty engagement. A solution to this

Leadership may mean different things to different people, the consensus opinion of experts in this field is that leadership is using power to direct and influence activities of people to achieve set goals or targets. Nursing leadership is all about every nurse providing, facilitating and promoting the best healthcare services to client and to the public. Leadership is a shared responsibility. (CNO 2012). The nursing profession need leaders that can build the capacity of nurses through mentoring, coaching, supporting, developing the expertise and management skills of nurses to make a difference to the quality of patient care at all levels of the profession ( McIntyre & McDonald, 2014 ). At the core of every leadership either political or managerial is power and how the leader uses it. While it is practically impossible to lead without power, how the nurse leader uses this power not only determine the leadership style but also the results or outcomes of what is achieved through the process.

Leadership is a shared responsibility of all nurses, regardless of job title, experience level, or area of practice. A strong nursing leader is an individual who thinks critically to evaluate their care, implements evidenced-based practice, advocates for their patients, practices within their full scope, and works to improve their skills throughout their career (Canadian Nurses ' Association, 2009). According to the Canadian Nurses ' Association 's position statement on nursing leadership (2009), it is vital that the "development of nursing leaders … begin at the onset of every nursing education program and continue throughout the career of every nurse" (p. 1). Although student and graduate nurses are in a position of learning, discovery, and development, they still have the potential to be strong leaders within their practice environment.

She identifies herself with a democratic leadership style, in which helps employees in decision-making process and allows them to make decisions on their own. With this, information is gathered and she can challenge their thought processes and decision making based on the orientees outcome while having the final word. This has been proven to be the right leadership style to use in new graduates that are knowledgeable, but are still learning how to prioritize decision making throughout the nursing process and avoiding harm to our patients. She said the style between autocratic and democratic could be similar but the democratic in leadership style, lets people make their own decisions, but if the decision isn’t correct,

The group is made up of fourteen new nurses, four nurses with one year of experience, and the group is led by one of the nursing educators at Adventist Health Medical Center in Hanford. The primary purpose of these meetings is to provide new nurses with ongoing support during the transition period from student to nurse. Although this is the primary purpose of these groups, group members use this time to discuss policies and procedures that need to be updated and or clarified, discuss situations on the units that continue to lead to negative patient outcomes, discuss most recent evidence based practices for surgical procedures performed at the facility, and to share facility updates. The nursing educator uses a facilitative leadership style when conducting these meetings. A person who uses a facilitative leadership style creates a culture where people feel comfortable contributing ideas and suggestions, listen to multiple point of views (even those that they do not agree with), emphasize key information, build bridges between people, create an atmosphere where people can share information, and allow people to come to resolutions to problems by working together (Brome, 2006). Most issues we are able to find a solution to as a group, but issues that are out of our control, such as changes to policies, she takes with her to discuss with department and facility managers.

Nursing is a very complex career that at many times requires one to be a leader. Nurses can be leaders in formal roles and also on the unit during any given shift. Nursing is a career that truly tests the character and attributes of those who choose to enter this career. Leadership in nursing is vital in creating a successful environment for patients. According to Stichler (2006), “effective leadership is essential to transforming organizations into environments that are safe for both patients and staff” (p. 422). Therefore, it is vital that as new nurses start out his or her careers that they learn from great leaders who are already in the profession. There are several great leaders working in the field who have a plethora of