Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Nursing Field

Based on the Clifton Strengths Assessment my top five strengths are strategic, deliberative, learner, maximize and individualization. As an individual, I rarely look into my weakness. I believe that when your too focused on your weakness, you forget about your strengths. Everything the book said is true, and we need to take the time to look at our strengths and make it perfect. It is true that in this world or the school system, we are taught to look at our weakness and correct it so that we can become stronger in our life. This book brings out the truth that I longed to hear for a long time. Invariably, I hear my professor tell their students that for them success in life, they must practice and look at our weakness. This book proves it wrong because for us to become successful, we must stay to our strengths’ path.

From the Strength Finder website questionnaire, my individualized leadership strengths are as follows: achiever, command, context, focus, and significance. In this essay I will elaborate on these in detail and the ways they explicitly relate to my personality and the different experiences and activities of my life. I have also researched several articles that discuss transformational leadership and how this pertains to the literature on the subject. I will discuss transformational leadership in comparison to my own strengths, and explain how my leadership style may progress as I advance through this nurse practitioners program.

Leadership at times can be a complex topic to delve into and may appear to be a simple and graspable concept for a certain few. Leadership skills are not simply acquired through position, seniority, pay scale, or the amount of titles an individual holds but is a characteristic acquired or is an innate trait for the fortunate few who possess it. Leadership can be misconstrued with management; a manager “manages” the daily operations of a company’s work while a leader envisions, influences, and empowers the individuals around them.

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.

The nursing field is not my future career, but is my current career as of July 21st 2015. Although, this is a milestone that I have already achieved, the field of nursing is complex. The difficulties that one faces in the beginning of this career, in my opinion, are some of the same difficulties that one will face throughout their entire career as a nurse, even when one “climbs the latter”. Looking through the list of problems that could present in the nursing field, there are a few that I consider to be detrimental to this day. There are staffing shortages (not just of nurses), high turnover rates of RN’s, occupational injuries and infections amongst staff, and lack of skilled RN’s (or in general, a lack of people becoming RN’s).

The field of nursing is growing and changing rapidly, but this isn’t the first time in history that nursing has undergone radical transformations. In ancient times, the sick was usually cared for in temples and houses of worship. In the early Christian era, nursing duties were undertaken by certain women in the church, their services being extended to patients in their homes. Florence Nightingale, the well-educated daughter of wealthy British parents, defied social conventions, and the wishes of her parents, and decided to become a nurse. During Britain’s Crimean War, Nightingale sought to improve the mortality rate for soldiers. Later, Clara Barton helped found the Red Cross and Agnes Jones helped establish nursing schools in the

There are several to name as changes are continually being made, however a few that have negatively affected healthcare would be nursing shortage, shorter hospital stay, and/or access to health care. There continues to be a nursing shortage although it has gotten better, but the workload for nursing sometimes can be heavy. That's why it is very important to know your strengths and your weaknesses, know how much you can safely handle and be familiar with the Safe Harbour Laws. Shorter hospitals stays because of insurance, patient overflow or etc causes shorter hospital stays. This has allowed some patients to discharge before they were actually ready or admit to a Long-term Acute Care facility. This makes education imperiative for nurses to

I loved your thoughts in this week’s discussion post. I completely agree with you about nursing being a field that will benefit from continuous improvement. There are constantly ways that we can work to improve patient care and safety in the medical field. As nurses, it is our job to never forget that. Keeping up with the latest research and journal articles is a great way to stay on top of new improvements. Also, another way to provide our patients with quality care is to maintain proper techniques when performing procedures. It is never a bad idea to take new training courses and go to programs provided to you by your workplace.

In my interview with Linda Harmsen , the administrator at a long-term care facility, I discovered that she has a degree in both nursing and business. She decided to become a nurse after her positive experience with the nurses at a hospital in Ottawa when her aunt was going through a miscarriage (L. Harmsen, personal communication, October 23, 2014). From that moment on, her main goal was to become a nurse and she only applied to one school for nursing since she felt that if she was meant to become a nurse, applying to several schools was unnecessary. Needless to say, she got her Registered Nurse license in nursing. However, she also was interested in business and pursued further in her education. Harmsen has experience as a bedside nurse, in retirement, professional practice, and as Director of Care. But, her most enjoyable experiences were in intensive care and project managing.

The first of my strengths is the achiever and according to Rath (2007), achiever describes a constant need for accomplishment, an internal fire pushes you to do more, no matter how small the

The purpose of this paper is to examine a situation where I have been in a leadership role. I will focus on an assignment where I was the trauma nurse early in my nursing career. Using the top five strengths obtained from the Strengths Finder 2.0 assessment, I will analyze how they helped to support my role as a leader.

The issues of the nursing profession have been inflating across the country, and require immediate solutions to stem this growing tide.

Over the recent years, nursing has faced several challenges and emerging issues that affect the health welfare of the society at large. Despite efforts being set to tackle the challenges, still the nursing industry proofs, to be difficult to changes laid. Example of challenges facing nursing includes; nurses etiquette while in work, commitment to their work, commitment to their profession as nurses, meeting patients' expectations, shortage of nurses and commitment to patients.

Throughout the class we have discussed many different issues and medical cases that has or does happen in the medical field. Continuously we see the nurses as the hero’s in the story by them being a light into patient’s ill experiences. A good nurse consists of someone who is willing to put the patients first and is educated to help patients receive the best possible care while dealing with sickness. The Webster dictionary describes a nurse as “a person who is trained to care for sick or injured people and who usually works in a hospital or doctor's office” ("Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America's most-trusted online dictionary"). These nursing characteristics combined with the qualities of a narrator show the need for nurses in healthcare. A mediator is defined as the “one who occupies a middle position or the one who mediates” ("Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America's most-trusted online dictionary"). The two working together is seen in the stories we have studied in class.

The health of different communities is pro to some challenges. Ranging from Infectious diseases, such as Hepatitis and other communicable diseases, and this can get out of control in many civilized town settings. Kids and infant health and well-being are threatened by preventable infections and diseases, society toxins, waste, violence, accidents, and injuries. Inequality in access to health care programs and insurance coverage has notably increased sickness and mortality among infants, pregnant women, and other expose populations.