NURS12155 Leadership In Nursing
Question:
Unlike a personal journal of thoughts and feelings, this Leadership Journal is a record of your activities, assessments, and learning related to this academic experience.
Journal entries should include a record of the number of hours spent with your nurse leader each week.
Describe an interaction or decision point this semester in which your nurse leader demonstrated humility or a missed opportunity to promote the success of others.
Summarize your practicum experience with your nurse leader. What insight into your own leadership style were you able to see? What do you believe was the most important thing you learned in this experience?
Utilizing servant leadership principles, outline a plan to improve your own success as a leader. Identify specific steps you plan to take to create this improvement.
Reflect on at least two things you learned from the “Issue of Humility” video
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
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Bed Board meeting to discuss daily bed and staff and patient assignment and admissions and discharges
Safety Huddle
Discuss various facility issues
Meeting with nursing board members.
Rounding on different pavilion as administrative on call and as unit director
Looking on variance reports and identify the problems and options to prevent further incidents
Meeting with Hospital executive administration for planning and budgeting of new fiscal year.
Staff counseling on tardiness
Discussion about absenteeism policy
Implementation of attendance policy
Verbal and written warning for staffs and their response
Discussion with human resource about implementing tardiness policy.
Checking on attendance data sheet of staff to identify patterns of Absenteeism
Discussion with staff who is changing their roles. Explanation of new responsibilities and privileges losing from old job title.
Answer:
Interpretation of the issue of humility video:
Nursing leadership has been categorized under seven distinct factors, which includes the following (Hutchinson & Jackson,2013):
- Issue of power
- Issue of authority
- Issue of rule
- Issue of hardship
- Issue of servant
- Issue of example
- Issue of humility
Out of all the distinct characteristics, ‘the issue of humility’ is one of the most important and overrated issue based on the present scenario (Read et al.,2016). This reflective journal is a valuable insight regarding the same based on practicum experience. Leadership is based on understanding ones authority but it depends on the individual on how one wishes to exercise the authoritative power bestowed upon them (Lathrop,2013). Based on the video on ‘the issue of humility’ it is clear that with authority comes responsibility and a good leader is one who does not see himself as a superior figure who is meant to be pleased and served by others but is responsible for the success of others which can only be achieved with humility and to possess a mentality to work for the betterment of others rather than considering personal benefits. The video also describes the same with an amazing example of the glass and the ping pong ball. If the leader imagines himself to be a ping pong ball lying at the base of a glass tumbler, the success of the subordinates under him can be considered as water being added into the glass. The more successful the leader makes the people around him, the more water is added into the glass and when the water reaches till the brim, the ping pong ball is lying on the water surface at the top. Therefore the two most important things that could be learned from the video includes, firstly, a leader cannot exercise authority without acknowledging his responsibility towards others working with him and secondly, to achieve success it is important to make others feel loved and honored towards the profession.
Critical evaluation of humility based on personal experience:
Week (13-14) included day to day hospital activities under the strict supervision of nurse leader. Activities included bed-board meetings to discuss about patient admission and discharge schedule, discussion on issues pertaining to maintenance of facilities in the hospital, visit to pavilion and critical evaluation of faulty issues and designing improvisations on the same, maintenance of attendance reports, discussion on tardiness and staff issues, administrative meetings with board members and discussion on budget plan. At every step, my nursing leader was extremely humble and motivated me to bring out the best in me. While I was on duty in the intensive rehabilitation unit in the 13th week, there came an instance when I had to plaster a patient and a new plaster was brought that day which I had not used before and was unsure of. While my leader asked me to plaster the patient, I stood there completely confused. I was depressed and was scared to admit the same. My leader could understand that something was wrong and asked me for an explanation. I presented my confusion and instantly was startled at the way my leader taught me at that very instant on how to use the plaster and made sure I had acquired knowledge about it without rebuking me at the lack of my knowledge. I felt extremely motivated at that instant.
Staying in close association with my nurse leader has helped me learn the most important principle for an effective leadership, which is the power of humility. Being humble is a primary requisite for being a successful leader (Bernard,2014). I have learnt from my practicum experience that it is important to identify the grievances of the employees and advise them accordingly as that would instill confidence in them and then they would be committed to serve their best (Coelho et al.,2014). I have learnt that a humble leader never exercises dominating control over the subordinates and demands being served but rather focuses on building an empathetic relationship with the employees (Grossman & Valiga,2016). I would like to incorporate the qualities of humility present in my leader so that in future I can handle critical scenarios in terms of employee conflicts or employee assistance with convenience and set an example of a good leader that my subordinates would look up to. I would like to be the example of a leader who is extremely modest and approachable so that people working with me do not feel intimidated or submissive under my authority. I would encourage criticism even from my subordinates and use it as a constructive feedback to expand my leadership abilities and cater to the need of the people looking up to me. Based on my practicum experience with my leader, I would make sure that there is a free flow of information within the employee frame in order to make employee access readily available. Also, I would incorporate the system of a feedback from every employee in order to make sure that they are not feeling pressurized or dominated by external forces.
References:
Bernard, N. (2014). Who’s next? Developing high potential nurse leaders for nurse executive roles. Nurse Leader, 12(5), 56-61.
Coelho Amestoy, S., Schubert Backes, V. M., Buss Thofehrn, M., Gue Martini, J., Schlindwein Meirelles, B. H., & de Lima Trindade, L. (2014). Dialogic leadership: strategies for application in the hospital environment. Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria, 32(1), 119-127.
Grossman, S., & Valiga, T. M. (2016). The new leadership challenge: Creating the future of nursing. FA Davis.
Hutchinson, M., & Jackson, D. (2013). Transformational leadership in nursing: towards a more critical interpretation. Nursing inquiry, 20(1), 11-22.
Lathrop, B. (2013). Nursing leadership in addressing the social determinants of health. Policy, politics, & nursing practice, 14(1), 41-47.
Read, C. Y., Betancourt, D. M. P., & Morrison, C. (2016). Social change: A framework for inclusive leadership development in nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 55(3), 164-167.
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