An Assessment And Action Plan For Self Improvement

In today’s ever-changing health care system, nurse leaders must possess key traits and skills that are needed to achieve goals, as well as face the multiple challenges across the different health care settings. Leaders take initiative, inspire followers with a vision, facilitate change and help with the development of coping mechanisms (Borkowski, 2016). Additionally, leaders are known to provide direction, empower subordinates and promote team work collaboration. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on my vision of a nurse leader by identifying three attributes that I consider essential in becoming a highly effective nursing leader. In my opinion, a nurse leader must have a drive for improvement, have the ability to communicate effectively

Once these qualities are achieved that organization’s outcomes are superior. The intended audience is for nurse managers and those in leadership positions to help them identify their particular skill set and enhance their management qualities for most effective outcomes. This article is relevant because it allows for accurate public perceptions of people’s skill sets as leaders in nursing. The strength of the article is the clear and concise language used as well as the incorporation of figure 1 chart. The chart allows the reader to differentiate between the styles of leading and it’s effect on organizational outcomes.

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.

With all the current changes currently in the health care field; health care professionals must have different attributes as well as different skills and knowledge in health care management to be a great leader not only empathetically towards the patients, staff but also within the organization, Health care management is a growing field, especially as more healthcare facilities adopt technology. Much of the day will require leader to improve efficiency and process in the healthcare setting, keep up to date on laws and compliance, manage staff schedules, be the face of the company at major meetings, and organize and manage the health records. Having great leadership skills in nursing means that, we as nurses have developed your own personal leadership skills and bringing them into the workplace. The top five skills needed in getting leadership role is of course the education

Leadership and management are essential to any health care organization, balancing patient care, employees, physicians, and the organization. Nursing is founded on interpersonal relationships. As a people-oriented profession, nursing leadership styles are influenced by humanism. The mission, attitude, and behaviors of a health care organization begins with its leadership, which creates the direction and purpose of the organization. The purpose of this paper is to differentiate between leadership and management, describe views of leadership, and explain the

The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing serves to transform nursing education and is critical to the innovations needed in health care. AACN (2011) Health care is a field that is constantly changing and evolving. Medical professionals are committed to lifelong learning, with an emphasis on seeking out quality care for patients that is based on evidence. Master’s prepared nurses are leaders in this change and are expected to provide the best quality outcomes. Nurses with a master’s degree will be able to enhance society through their lifelong learning and have the skills to build and lead professional teams. Being able to translate evidence into their daily practice as well as incorporate this care throughout the healthcare system as

New nurses can incorporate leadership fundamentals while developing competency in their profession. Leadership skills consist of effective communication. The nurse must be able to listen and understand what is being said. Make notes and encourage questions. The RN will carry the flow of the group in

Leadership does not always come with a title or prestige. Every nurse has within themselves qualities that make them a great leader. Leadership by definition, “is a combination of intrinsic personality traits, learned leadership skills, and characteristics of the situation (Cherry& Jacob (2013 p. 335). A leader is one who has the capacity and skills to direct or encourage others in efforts to achieve an outcome. I recently completed a self-assessment on my perceived leadership abilities. The survey was called the Nurse Manager Skills Inventory (Nurse Manager Leadership Partnership, 2008). It consists of four content areas of which I will address and identify my strengths and weaknesses.

In the United States nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession and there are more 3.1 million registered nurses nationwide (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2011, para. 1). The number of registered nurses is projected to grow by 16 percent from 2014 to 2024 (U.S. Department of Labor, 2015, para. 5) and given these growing numbers there will be an increased need for nurse leaders. Nursing leadership plays a pivotal role not only in striving to implement safe patient practices, but also for nurse retention and satisfaction (Bormann & Abrahamson, 2014, p. 219). Nurses will need development and mentoring to develop the leadership skills needed to support the development of healthy work places (Sherman & Pross, 2010,

The self-improvement effort is a hard process since you are looking at yourself in the mirror. As most people the reflection happens at the beginning of the year by hitting the gym and starting a diet. As the weeks go by the gym slowly loses members and health food stay on the shelves. My action plan starts with the beginning understanding that I will not fail. The benefits of physical health would be the first and most important change since it will help extend my life span and also enrich my focus. I used to trial mountain bikes every weekend after the hour drive to the trail and waking up extremely early. The value of fresh air and clarity always allowed me to really think on my ride back about new goals I want to accomplish.

(Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety, Essential IV: Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology, Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health, Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist

Leadership traits associated with nurse executives are honesty, credibility, supportiveness, visibility, and flexibility. Nurse executives analyze nursing functions and empower nurses through participatory decision making, shared governance, and employee involvement. Nurse executives share the vision and goals of the hospital and promote application of a nursing theory into the nursing care delivery system. They anticipate the future of health care and nursing and serve as monitor, role model, and preceptor to lower level management (Upeniecks, 2003). Nurse executives in the Magnet program are required to have advance practice degrees with certification in their specialty (ANCC). Understanding evidence-based management and enabling the use of evidence-based knowledge provides the nurse executive with the tools to improve patient outcomes. The transformational leader will remove barriers to improvement and encourage outcome based thinking. While nurse leaders are charged with questioning the status quo, nurse managers in the transformational approach to leadership are charged with maintaining the status quo.

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.

"Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety are necessary to provide high quality health care" (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008 p. 3).

The leadership skills that are most important include self-awareness, self-confidence, effective communication and time management skills. Being able to communicate effectively and consistently will develop leadership and trust. Being mindful of how we communicate with other health care team members, patients, and family members. Great leaders demonstrate confidence when caring for patients. I have been able to experience that when a nurse is in situations where they feel nervous or don’t know exactly what to do this make the patients feel anxious. Managing time well is another great leadership skills. As I mentioned above its important for the nurse to prioritize daily tasks and delegate wisely. Self-awareness is being able to read our own