Leadership and Learning: Reflective Account and Lessons Learned

This document is a reflective account on leadership and learning in a healthcare setting. The author shares their experience in administering and helping a relative who wanted to take a patient home without formal discharge. They discuss transactional leadership and the importance of reflection in nursing practice. The author also reflects on the need to prioritize patient safety and improve their practice. The document is relevant to the themes of prioritizing people, practicing effectively, preserving safety, and promoting professionalism and trust.

Leadership and
Learning

Reflective account:
What was the nature of the CPD activity and/or practice-related feedback
and/or event or experience in your practice?
I was accountable for administrating and helping a relative who was attempting to take a
patient home without her being formally discharged from hospital care. The relative
emerged very distressed and said she was worried about her family member’s condition and
said she felt she would be best cared at home. The patient still needed constant medical and
nursing care for their condition and for a sustained period of time. It was included that if this
patient was not to continue receiving hospital care they could depreciate and their condition
worsen.
Here, I observed transactional leadership. Transactional leadership is a form of management
in which leaders promote compliance with the aid of followers via each rewards and
punishments. Through a rewards and punishments gadget, transactional leaders are able to
keep followers prompted for the short-term. Transactional management is most often
compared to transformational management. Transactional management relies upon on self-
motivated people who work well in a based, directed environment. By assessment,
transformational management seeks to motivate and encourage people, choosing to persuade
rather than direct others. This type of chief units the criteria for their people consistent with
formerly defined requirements. Performance reviews are the most common manner to judge
employee overall performance. Transactional, or managerial, leaders’ paintings nice with
employees who understand their jobs and are encouraged with the aid of the reward-penalty
device. The repute quo of an corporation is maintained through transactional management.
What did you learn from the CPD activity and/or feedback and/or event or
experience in your practice?
Reflection is a method that could aid nurses to evaluate, plan, implement and examine
patient care, to make certain choicest practice. The article stated that mirrored image must be
practical, focused and wondering. It emphasised that mirrored image may additionally have
a positive outcome, and can become aware of regions that require development. Formal
mirrored image is now blanketed as a demand for Nursing and Midwifery Council
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revalidation, which states that nurses ought to offer at least 5 written reflective debts in the
3-12 months duration since the renewal in their registration. I even have learned that instead
than being appeared as a tick-container exercise, mirrored image have to be an opportunity
for nurses to consider any medical episodes that went properly, in addition to take a look at
people who have been challenging.
Ensuring the protection of the affected person have to be my first trouble, irrespective of the
desires of the (3 family if the affected man or woman has the capacity to make selections I
need to act in the hobbies of the affected character and goal to assist them concerning the
choice they take for his or her care and supplying them with the facts they require. In this
example the realised it turned into important to are searching for advice and I referred the
situation to my ward supervisor and the scientific crew and we listened to the concerns of
the relative with the affected man or woman present. I learnt the significance of the relative
and affected man or woman being aware that I become engaged in helping them every, but
in the end in order to make certain the scientific dreams of the affected character have been
met. (determined it critical to stay calm, sell an surroundings of trust for the affected person
and their relative with myself and the clinical team. I learnt that if it grow to be considered
necessary that I may want to and should always strengthen the problem to a senior member
of staff who would have the knowledge or recognise in which to are attempting to find the
advice to take any extra steps (which incorporates invoke any safeguarding measures), to
make certain the patient is cared for.
As a end result I actually have received more self assurance in dealing with workforce that
may be new to healthcare and who may additionally take time to combine into a ultra-
modern function as a part of the ward institution. I can be most important the value
determinations of a collection of HCAs in future and I actually have taken greater guarantee
that they're every now settling into the ward properly and often now come to me for
comments and assist. They cite their early days on the ward as new HCAs as very daunting
and that my supportive and individual method made the difference to them settling in and
managing the uncertainty of a brand new role. I actually have attended the believe appraisal
path to be effective in my interaction with the ones body of employees for my part for his or
her value determinations. As a stop end result of more self warranty to guide body of
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workers I even have requested my supervisor if I need to take ahead the buddying of the
HCAs inside the ward team I work in on a everlasting foundation to increase and construct
on my development and manage skills. The characteristic of switch specialist will interest on
organisational and person training wishes to waft more at ease handling exercise ahead
throughout the corporation, in step with modern-day brilliant workout. Each teacher could
be expected to wait at least one replace education session every 12 months facilitated by
way of using a board guide managing guide.
Staff will whole a dependent manual managing passport and may be assessed carrying out
practical modules applicable to their place of job. For new staff an induction can be achieved
and a tick list of schooling goals must be met preceding to graduation of work. Self
assessments can be finished each two years and, if required, education may be provided
through the use of the transfer expert. The regulation concerning hazard checks and safety at
art work became stated and the importance of evaluation prior to acting any project became
reinforced, with the motive to reduce chance of harm to each affected person and personnel
member. Nurse I even have had to adapt to diverse environments to supply care thoroughly
and correctly. Working in the community team we offer care for sufferers with complicated
health care desires at domestic, maximum supplying with restricted functionality to mobilise
And switch independently. I participated inside the manual handling transfer professional
schooling direction to boom the group’s know-how and competencies in affected character
managing. The position of switch professional might also even sell the group’s compliance
with the Trust’s obligatory training programme.
Learnt that sufferers do now not typically have a smooth statistics of the practices we are
requesting from them. I pondered on how we asked sufferers for trendy statistics - it's miles
quite feasible that sufferers do not discuss with Health Care Professionals while making
picks - in this situation they examine an editorial, bought an OTC remedy and commenced
out self-medication. This highlights that patients might not bear in mind self-medicine both a
‘medical’ or ‘drug’ trade and therefore couldn't report a change to us.
How did you change or improve your practice as a result?
As a nurse on an intensive care unit I have been concerned about disparities in the quality of
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end of life care. I felt that while some patients experience a ‘good death’, on other occasions
more could have been done to improve the patient’s experience. Previously, I had reflected
on clinical events such as the withdrawal of life support after they occurred, but since
reading the article, I have been reflecting during such events. This has enabled me to modify
my actions while I am undertaking them.
We have organized a teaching programme which incorporates man or woman task checks;
manipulate measures, hazard exams, care plans and assessment dates. We have presented to
accompany colleagues on home visits to carry out complex exams, permitting us to initiate
more secure coping with standards. We will act as a resource to the organization in relation
to the ordering of device, with the cause of reducing the chance of harm to colleagues and
patients due to bad manual managing exercise. Transactional control is a control style that
values structure and order inside every dating. Transactional leadership calls for precise
regulations or regulations be accompanied to complete said targets. It actions human beings
and assets in an organized fashion to make sure that precise effects can be obtain alongside
an regular time body. It is a management style which requires humans to be self-inspired
always. Team participants with a transactional chief ought to be able to paintings inside a
directed surroundings that is drastically based totally. It makes a speciality of generating
outcomes above something else and motivates humans to reap them by means of providing
clean rewards or consequences. Transactional leadership structures specific rewards for
achievement that have actually described parameters. Workers understand after they’ll attain
that praise and what they’ll receive once they do. Simultaneously, employees moreover
remember the fact that their organization leaders are supervising them to make sure
outcomes, appropriate or awful, are dispensed. Reviewed the written information we supply
to sufferers previous to remedy: Introduced a chance evaluation for bruising and the danger
evaluation includes a list of feasible medications they may be taking and may not suppose to
say, which includes low dose Aspirin, Vitamin E dietary supplements, cod liver oil drugs
and so forth.
How is this relevant to the Code?
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Select one or more themes: Prioritise people – Practise effectively – Preserve safety – Promote
professionalism and trust
Option One and Option Two
Phoritise People, Promote Professionalism and Trust.
It changed into vital to make sure the ones issues had been considered whilst orientating
HCAs to the clinical vicinity. I prioritised the wishes of these new workforce to make sure
they met their learning targets and promoted professionalism and their believe being part of
their known aid shape. It is applicable to the theme ‘prioritise human beings’ in terms of
listening to human beings and responding to their options and concerns. I had some of
conferences and communications with the control team and representatives to ensure the
training day would meet their necessities, and I made modifications primarily based on the
remarks received. It is likewise relevant to the topics ‘instruction efficaciously’ and
‘promote professionalism and agree with’ in phrases of working towards in line with the
high-quality to be had evidence, working cooperatively, speaking actually, and sharing
abilities and understanding. It turned into important that the great available proof changed
into used within the presentation, which required me to analyze the problem place and
ensure I was confident in my know-how. I also needed to make certain that I communicated
really and varied the coaching techniques to facilitate contributors’ engagement, recognising
that people examine in unique methods. The session advocated contributors to uphold the
requirements and values set out within the Code. This is applicable to all ideas of the Code,
but specially:
Practising efficiently – this enjoy is ready communicating virtually, and taking steps to make
sure people recognize what's being asked of them.
Preserving protection – I took steps to lessen as a ways as possible any ability for damage
related to my practice via introducing a brand new danger assessment for
bruising.
This mirrored image is relevant for me for Practicing correctly in caring for a discrete
organization of young person diabetic sufferers and Promoting professionalism and agree
with by way of improving my information of care of diabetic patients, to listen to their
desires and to benefit the believe of my patients which will control their personal care extra
proactively and to Preserve protection. I feel I am also able to Priohtise People (this discrete
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organization of diabetes sufferers) and their character care.
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