MOD005236: Leadership and Decision Making in Nursing

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP TRANSCRIPT
Nursing leadership transcript
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NURSING LEADERSHIP TRANSCRIPT1
Leadership is a very important personality trait that each and every individual must
possess. In everyday life, there are various scenarios where the need for able and assertive
leadership skills to facilitate rights and justice becomes crucial (Davis, Corless and Nicholas
2018). Even in the professional field, the need for adequate leadership is imperative, with
multidisciplinary teams working together conspicuous everywhere. Especially in the context of
healthcare and nursing, the need for adequate leadership has never been as crucial as it is right
now, and in this first slide I would like to introduce importance of leadership in nursing field.
Healthcare is being provided in multidisciplinary setting all across the globe. The advantages to a
multidisciplinary healthcare service are numerous, although there are certain disadvantages as
well (Démeh and Rosengren 2015). With a variety of different professionals belonging to
different professional disciplines, the risk of conflict and interpersonal management challenges
are very high which might affect the patient care if not addressed immediately. Hence, the need
for adequate leadership in the nursing professionals is extreme, so that they can prioritize the
care needs of the patient over any conflict and can help facilitate optimal care services as
smoothly as possible (Grossman and Valiga 2016). In this presentation I would like to shade
light on the aspect of leadership in nursing, how I have experienced the leadership in my
placement, and how it helped me understand the importance of leadership in our position taking
the assistance of different leadership theories.
In the next two slides, I will attempt to illustrate the leadership scenario I experienced in
my placement. The leadership instance or scenario which I will be focusing on for this
presentation refers to one of the shift work nights that I had to complete as a student. This night
stands out as an inspiring moment of leadership which presented itself in the form of most urgent
crisis situation. I had been placed in elderly care ward where my mentor discovered a patient

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helplessly laying on the floor. Understanding the urgency of the situation, my mentor quickly
informed all the available staff and communicated the urgent need for health for the vulnerable
elderly patient. I observed my mentor instantly slip into the role of a potent leader, arranged and
designated different tasks to be completed to different members of the available staff. The tasks
were many and complicating, including taking vital signs, assessing for injuries, assuring the
patients, and calling for additional help from the adjacent wards along with leaving a staff
member available to attend the other patient in the elderly ward as well. I noticed that my
mentor had understood that the elderly patient that had fell was our highest priority, however
caring for this patient must not affect the care services provided to the rest of the elderly patients
as well, which is commendable (Lynch et al. 2018).
Furthermore, I would also like to highlight that along with directing a team of 15 nurses
to attend to the emergency that the elderly patient had been suffering from, our leader had been
simultaneously checking for any signs of injury and quickly noticed a bruise on the patient's left
elbow. My mentor also provided me the opportunity to check the patient's vital signs, which
seems normal after my observation. My mentor also showed leadership qualities while
communicating effectively with the patient reassuring her to be calm while she was being
examined for pain score assessment. The patient confirmed my mentor that she was able to
stand up and with the taking our assistance, the patient was successfully transferred to her bed
and my mentor quickly instructed us for assessing the patient before giving any analgesics to
relieve any pain (Luo and Liu 2014). I was given the opportunity to check on the vital signs of
the patient every 30 minutes for 2 hours and continue hourly observations for 24 hours to ensure
optimal safety of the patient. After which my mentor contacted the doctor in charge and reported
the situation following the incident reporting proforma and also an incident form was also filled