Engagement in Professional Nursing | Assessment

Engagement in Professional Nursing
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Leadership and Management
Two essential leadership skills that Registered Nurses must bring to their role are shared decision
making and relationship management. Shared decision making is an undertaking whereby
Registered Nurses involve patients in the decision-making process concerning the patients'
treatment, tests and plans (Sfantou et al. 2017). The Registered Nurses and the patient have to
work together in the shared decision-making process to come up with treatment goals and plan to
take into account the patients values and preferences. Shared decision making among Registered
Nurses helps create accountability, engagement and staff autonomy (Rao, Kumar & McHugh,
2017). Registered nurses make the patients' treatment options attainable and holistically tailored
to their needs. Patients who are engaged in the shared decision making collaborate with
Registered Nurses to ensure that the right decisions are made and that they understand the
advantages and disadvantages of different options. Registered Nurses engaged in shared decision
making ensure that the patients they are managing receive patient-centred care that is of good
quality. Registered Nurses are required to acquire leadership skills that help them interact with
other nurses and patients under their supervision. Relationship management enables Registered
Nurses to collaborate and work together to provide quality care to patients in the hospital
(DeLoach, 2018). Excellent communication skills are fundamental to achieving a working
relationship among Registered Nurses and also with their patients. Registered Nurses should
endeavour to understand their colleagues and their patients to enable a pleasant working
environment. Communication between Registered Nurses fosters a teamwork approach in
problem-solving and decision making regarding patient's needs. Therapeutic relationships among
Registered Nurses and their patients is essential in the holistic management of the patients and
should be established early. Management of these therapeutic relationships ensures that

Registered Nurses provide patient-centred care because they understand the social, psychological
and physical needs of the patients. Registered Nurses who establish a good therapeutic
relationship with their patients early in the treatment process achieve better health outcome.
Leadership skills that I would like to develop further are emotional intelligence and critical
thinking. Emotional intelligence is the skill of a Registered Nurse to recognize, assess and
control their emotions and those of other people in an optimistic fashion (Edmunds, 2014).
Registered Nurses continuously engage different types of patients and other registered nurses on
distinct occasions, and therefore emotional intelligence is very vital in nursing. Critical thinking
in nursing looks into how Registered Nurses handle different patient situation aimed at the best
outcome for the patient in the hospital (Papathanasiou et al. 2014). Registered Nurses need to be
critical thinkers to attend to emergency needs of the patient in a calm manner. Several traits
Registered Nurses must have to achieve the right level of critical thinking, and they are
analytical, communication, open-minded, problem solving and creativity. Registered nurses have
to be analytical of the patients' problem by examining them, evaluating them and coming up with
a decision to solve these problems. Communication is key to sharing patient's solutions among
Registered Nurses and their patients under their care. I need to come up with strategies that will
help me gain emotional intelligence and critical thinking in my nursing career as a registered
nurse. Some plans help in emotional intelligence, and they include, utilizing active listening
skills, practising ways to maintain a positive attitude, taking critique well and utilizing leadership
skills. Strategies to achieve excellent critical thinking skills as a registered nurse are evaluating,
research, asking questions and being straightforward. Using active listening skills as a registered
nurse will help me manage my patients better because I will listen carefully and understand my
patient's problem in depth. Active listening skills will help me take verbal and non-verbal cues