Leadership for Beginning Practices Assignment 2022

LEADERSHIP FOR
BEGINNING
PRACTICES
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LEADERSHIP FOR BEGINNING PRACTICES
Introduction
Leadership can be defined as the vital aspect associated with management practices which
bring reform in the environment of health care (Asif et al., 2019). The organization has been
restructured in order to satisfy specific demands for safe, affordable, efficient and accessible
health care. There are certain nurses who play an important role based on management in
order to formulate certain skills. NUM is an acronym where N stands for Nursing, U stands
for Unit and M stands for Managers. The NUM has proper management as well as a
leadership skill to operate efficiently in their field.
The paper has focused on certain questions on the basis of certain factors that affect the
nursing leaders. In addition, it has also discussed a situation based on the expectation of new
leaders which contains scopes of practices, ethical and legal borderlines. Moreover, it has
also focused on explaining a situation that can be elaborated based on the Gibbs model.
Furthermore, it has described a situation grounded on certain elements which are supportive
in the field of effective leadership.
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Discussion
Effects of various factors over nursing leaders: Being a Nurse Unit Manager, it is very
essential to pay attention on the performance of the nurses and have to remain calm and cool
minder to handle various unexpected situations. In order to relief Kim from stress and
emerging feelings of under confidence, I would also provide her support that may help her to
gain her lost confidence. Neither I am going to advise the nurse, nor I am going to judge as
well, rather I would accompany her to deal with the problems to get rid of them. Initially, I
would call Kim to my clinic to make her comfortable so that she can reveal the problems in
front of me. Then I would slowly and patiently discuss the relevant issues to decrease Kim’s
anxiety and distress. I would help the nurse to the best possible extent to regain the lost faith
because due to her under confidence, she is thinking herself to be hopeless and worthless at
the same time. There are several RN Standards of practice, mainly implemented for the
purpose of efficient nursing, have been discussed below.
Standard 1 of RN practices helps in critical thinking and evaluation of skills based on
nursing practice. Standard 2 of RN practices, denotes engagement in therapeutic as well as a
professional relationship. Standard three bits of help in the maintenance of capability
associated with practices, while standard four helps to conduct certain assessments
comprehensively. Standard 3 of RN practices, helps to maintain the capability of practices
that accepts accountability for decisions, behaviors, actions and responsibilities related to a
nurse job role. According to NMBA (2019), this standard helps to identify and promote the
integral role of nursing practices that influences people to take care of themselves for gaining
better health. Standard 4 of RN practices, depicts a range of assessment techniques to collect
accurate information and data of nursing practices. Standard 5 of RN practices, focuses to
help in the development of certain plans based on nursing and standard six ensure appropriate
quality of nursing practices. Standard 6 of RN practices, provides safe and appropriate as
well as good nursing quality by following relevant polices, guidelines and regulations.
Furthermore, Standard 7 of RN practices, helps in the evaluation of outcomes based on
practices of nursing. With the help of RN standard, I would help Kim to regain her capability
to improve the quality of work which refers to standard three. As per standard three, the
regulated professionals would ensure their safety as well as their capability associated with
practices (NMBA, 2019).
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In this case study the newly joined nurse faced an issue related to equipment handling
practices, that made her distressed and also decreased her confidence level. In her first phase
of working life she needed to get proper guidance about nursing practices instead of getting
criticism (Chapman, 2015). According to the case study it was not the nurse’s fault that she
did not know the use of intubation equipment, it was lack of university who failed to give
exposure of handling all type of medical equipment.
With the help of the discussed RN standards, I would make her learn effective procedures
about managing herself. Further, these standards would also aid her to improve herself
professionally so that she may provide assistance to others. This would help Kim to avoid the
attitude of giving up and would make her stable enough to take fruitful decisions. It would
also help her by providing proper education which would prevent her from making mistakes
(Edward et al., 2015). Last time she did not know the functioning of specific equipment used
for intubation due to which all trouble has aroused. Hence with the help of these standards,
she would acquire certain skills that would provide give knowledge regarding the utilization
of equipment (Brown, 2017).
Expectations of Clinical Leadership: Clinical leadership expectations have been
characterized as the performing duties that should be undertaken by the doctors, nurses and
other staffs of the healthcare unit. The expectations include the framing of knowledge,
potentialities, capabilities and practices of the new graduate nurses that will benefit them to
take a step forward into the duties that are required. Practices of the nurses involve
safeguarding, advancing and escalation of health and capabilities; avoidance of illness and
bruises; abetment in healing; and mitigation of pain with the help of diagnosis and
medication. A nurse has a legal and ethical permission to acknowledge the appeal of care and
should treat the patient with equal care and truthfulness. The nurse must estimate the health
requirements of the patient that can be handled within the practice. However, if the nurse
finds that a critical level of treatment is needed, then he or she should transfer the patient to
the respective physician (Brown, Dewing and Crookes, 2016).
Based on the above analysis, it can be observed that Kim does not meet the commitments that
are expected from the new graduate nurses. First and foremostly, Kim was a fresher and
needed to be more concentrated about her duty of medicating a cardiac arrest patient, in
which she was involved. After the patient’s recovery, Kim was scolded by the attending
Registrar for an unintentional wrongdoing, as mentioned earlier. Due to this incident, she
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