Leadership Theory in Practice and Implementation of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice Project As the health care environment in our country continues to change at a rapid pace, the need for properly prepared leaders in all health care environments will grow. The Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) prepared nurse will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to rise to the highest levels of leadership in the institution of health care. To be an effective leader requires knowledge of the organization’s…

will focus on leadership and management with the aim of developing knowledge from the discussion of theories and strategies to the provision of quality care. In the last section I will reflect on how knowledge gathered about leadership and management theories, principles and best practice concepts benefit my nursing leadership development. To begin with, fundamentals of leadership are to believe in the vision and to enjoy the journey as it is a very important concept in life. Leadership define by Zuber-Skerritt…

Executive Summary Major changes need to take place within the nursing leadership in order to change the culture of the nursing practice. Evidenced- based research has proven that a transformational leadership style, solid emotional intelligence, effective communication skills, and a new culture of nursing leadership are the key for growing the nursing practice. The problem is change is not happening at the top level of nursing administration, so the entry level, or clinical nurse is still practicing…

Patricia Benner Nursing Theorist Group Five Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences University of Colorado Colorado Springs NURS 3040: Foundations of Nursing Patricia Benner Nursing Theorist Theory, what is a theory? According to Blais & Hayes, (2011) “A theory is a supposition or idea that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon. Theories differ in their scope and have been categorized in different ways. One of those categorizations schemes divide them into categories according…

and attain the best patient outcomes. Nursing leaders guide others towards set goals and managers pull resources together to achieve those goal. There are different styles of leadership and my style inclines heavily toward what is called participative/democratic. My leadership style tends to bring people together so that we all come to a majority agreement of how best to meet the goals at hand. I work in an emergency room and the challenges of nursing in this work setting are to achieve organized…

Transformational Leadership Theory as a Guide. My leadership philosophy closely mirrors the transformational approach to leadership. Like the transformational theory suggests, I believe that true leadership inspires the team to rise above its individual components in order to reach a shared goal (Huber, 2014). Some of the individual components are areas that I have personal strength in such as: desire to learn and ability to get the job done (Rath & Conchie, 2008). Additionally, some of the components…

of Theory Nursing theories are organized concepts that guide nursing practice. They are a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions with standards borrowed from other related disciplines for the purpose of explaining, and predicting outcomes (Allgood, 2010). In the late 1800s, the nursing profession placed a major emphasis on education. This inspired the development of some of our earliest nursing theorists (CCN, 2015). Many theorists felt it prudent to describe nursing practice…

Applying Leadership to Nursing Practice In Godin’s, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, he explores foundational leadership characteristics, the role of followers, and the importance of overcoming criticism. These themes can function as guiding principles for both charge nurses and staff nurses who wish to become effective leaders. Additionally, these characteristics of a leader can be applied to my own practice and pursuit of becoming an excellent nurse and leader. By grasping and applying these ideas…

Applying Adult Education Theory to Guide Basic Life Support in Mock Code Blue Teaching Practice Samar Tobasi University of Toronto Clinical Teaching Course INTAP Dr. Helen Barry April 18, 2011 Not for quotation without permission of author Table of Contents Introduction 3 Application 6 Analysis 8 Strength 9 Weakness 9 Opportunities 9 Threats 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction I work in a company Hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi (KSA) as a complex care…

Middle Range Theory Continues to Guide Nursing Practice Lisa M. Sanford Maryville University Middle Range Theory Continues to Guide Nursing Practice Nursing theory has three distinct categories to describe the level of abstraction: Grand, Middle-Range, and Situation-Specific (Meleis, 2012, p. 33). Hugh McKenna (1997) defined these three categories, stating: Grand theory is highly abstract and is broad in scope. Middle-range theory is more focused and is normally the end product of a research…