Leading and Learning: Building Professional Capacity

Leading and Learning: Building
Professional Capacity
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
Why delegating care and being an advocate are leadership roles in nursing and why these roles
are expected of a graduate registered nurse.................................................................................3
Patient care outcomes may occur as an outcome of effective and/or ineffective care delegation
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENECS................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Building professional capacity is referred as promoting a surrounding which maximize the
potential of people and organisations to possess and receive skills and knowledge and to become
competent in planning, formulating, executing and sustaining activities related to health as per
the emerging or changing needs (Fullan, Rincón-Gallardo, & Hargreaves, (2015). This is an
essay report which intent to demonstrate the understanding of leadership roles. This report covers
the leadership roles of a graduate nurse including being an advocate and delegating care along
with the reasons these roles are expected of graduate RN. It also discusses about the patient care
outcomes which may occur as an outcome of effective and ineffective care delegation.
PART A
Why delegating care and being an advocate are leadership roles in nursing and why these roles
are expected of a graduate registered nurse
In relation to nursing practice, delegation can be stated as transfer of authority for
performing a specific task from one person to another when retaining accountability for results.
Effective delegation develops more time for graduate nurse to perform the tasks which are of
high value added and those which needs critical thinking and judgement. In the modern day, the
role of a graduate registered nurse has evolved to that of guiding, directing, delegating and
oversight of care. The graduate nurse required to have delegation skills in order to protect health,
safety as well as welfare of patients. The main purpose of delegation leadership role is to make
sure that safe care reaches to the patient (DELEGATION SKILLS: ESSENTIAL TO THE
CONTEMPORARY NURSE, (2011). A graduate registered nurse must be an effective delegator
in order to get success in his/ her profession. Lack of delegation skills may put the service user at
risk and also put their own licence of practice in jeopardy (National Council of State Boards of
Nursing. (2016). So, delegating care is a significant leadership role in nursing as this skill is
paramount to accomplish required outcomes and the employers are expected this leadership role
from the graduate registered nurse as this will help in ensuring effective delivery of care to
patients. Delegation enable registered nurses to use the knowledge informed practice while
providing care by prioritizing skilful nursing care (Motacki, & Burke, (2016).
Being an advocate transcends nursing profession at all levels and needs leadership
competencies and skills which should be executed in collaboration with other healthcare
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