Reflective Essay on Leadership

This reflective essay discusses the nature of nursing leadership, its importance in advancing the profession, and personal development plans for improving leadership skills. It explores different leadership styles, strengths and weaknesses, and opportunities for growth. The essay also highlights the need for support and development of future nurse leaders in the NHS.

Reflective essay on leadership

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discussion on Leadership............................................................................................................3
Reflection on own leadership skills and style..............................................................................4
SWOT..........................................................................................................................................5
Personal development plans........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Nursing is the dynamic and challenging profession which have the requirements of engaging as
the inspiring level of models and leaders. As in today’s changing environment has been
considered to demanding healthcare environments with proper identifications and developing of
the nurse leaders. This has been tunes out to be greatest level of challenges face by the nursing
profession. The concept of leadership is more complex in natures along with being
multidimensional phenomena which is gaining more level of clarity from managements. This
discussion will have outline of nature of nursing leadership with having its importance in
advancing profession (de Vries and Curtis, 2018). There will be inclusion of the individual
leadership styles with demonstration of respective strength and weakness at different situation in
addition to that’s there will be development plan to have improvement’s in leadership. With
proper identification of support and developments of the future nurse leaders will be helpful in
shifting the paradigm of theories of leadership for the future burses n NHS by meeting up the
ultimate goals for nursing profession.
MAIN BODY
Discussion on Leadership
An effective nurse is the one who can have inspiration for other in order to work together in
pursuit for achieving certain level of goals such as enhanced level of patient care. An effective
leader has the distinctive level of personal quality which have major integrity, courage with
initiative and ability to have handling proper stress (Marshall and Kay, 2019). Leadership in
nursing requires a constant effort to motivate others to become part of the organizational
transformation. On the other hand, leaders have proper organizing, direct, delegating with
respective vision. The NHS have the continually changing as research have evidence which leads
to the new practices along with technology have transformation to the workplace. There is need
for the implementations of the different leadership theories into the nurse in order gaining proper
level of understanding to have respective communication to be bitterly understood. In the nursing
there are important leadership which are such as democratic, autocratic and transformational
leadership. As per the democratic style in the nursing have the clear demonstration over handing
more level of participation of respective junior employees in the decision making by making
procedure of NHS (Ali and Terry, 2017). Although, it is the final decision so of leaders by
collecting their information with feedbacks and ideas form the performing staff member without
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finalizing everything. There is resistance of some changes which may have occurrence because
of respective staff members which is now adapting to have coping with new methods. This is the
situation where change model and leadership are important. The implementation of leadership
has the major discussion of most useful styles nurse to be used when leading team with
implementing change. As per the Francis report, leaders in the NHS report have actually more
level of aware in responsibilities at the senior level. On the other hand, as per the consequences
for failure to have discharging the duties in order to make mistake which have unforeseen or
tragic level of consequences (Major, 2019). On the other hand, as per report Berwick plea for the
service without having harm which have included no blame cultures or one which is not reflected
in the level of numerous surveys about the culture leadership in the NHS. It is very important to
have major requirement at every level who are the bl to expertly to have navigation their roles
along with responsibilities with effective level of confidence and competence. On the other hand,
as per the NHS long term plans there will be inclusion of comprehensive NHS workforce
implementation plan which is been seen at new cross-sector national workforce group, and
underpinned by a new compact between frontline NHS leaders and the national NHS leadership
bodies.
On the other hand, autocratic is just the opposite of democratic where the leader nurse in the boss
that’s the full stop. This decision is taken at the time to make important level of decision making
which will be considered as beneficial for productivity of firm (Berridge and et.al.,2020). At las
the transformational leadership is the nurse leaders which have the ability to have influence over
others by using positive level of strategies as motivation towards same goals.
Reflection on own leadership skills and style
For me, leadership have believing in more manner of respecting human dignity. It has meaning
of the listening, inspiring along with encouraging to be attentive with upholding more rewarding
the culture. in addition to that’s comprehensive management which have constant focus on
quality. As per my considerations, nursing leadership should be more level of customer oriented.
As leaders should have the earning there their respective status as role models as there is no
place in modern nursing for the leadership style which is been based on fear (Crombie and
Garland, 2016). I have democratic style in the nursing profession which have clear
demonstration over handing more level of participation of respective junior employees in the
decision-making procedure in NHS. Although, I used to final decision by collecting their
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information with feedbacks and ideas form the performing staff member without finalizing
everything (Anderson, 2018). On the other hand, autocratic and transformational is not my kind
of leadership in order to have the succession the different plans and procedure. As this leadership
have the varsity of strength and weakness which is being analysed me through various indigence
which used to take place in my career. As per my leadership styles there are various scenario
around more level of clinical area. For the example, as per the preference democratic leadership
as patients comes in with diabetes. As having proper communication skill, I was look to have
their proper communication skill to have the proper interaction regarding the major level of
consequences which is faced by patient. I have proper delegated the junior with good team as the
player which have ability to work under pressure. This added the value into mu leadership skills
(Rosser and et.al., 2017). On the other hand, dealing with patient over depression is considered
to be by weakness. I used to have lack my major level of confidence in hand overring. On
addition to that’s there is cause of disharmony which is misapplied. In addition to that’s leaders
have to start fence sitting which can never reach to have true consensus. This weakness is
creating more level of lag in my profession as there is the multiple level of responsibility in order
to have inadequate support the team.
SWOT
Strength Weakness
Efficient to have good delegation
To manage effective team
To have the ability to work under pressure
To have communication skill
Good time keeper
To have lack in confidence in hand over.
Poor level of time managements in drug.
Opportunity Threat
To have prioritising to have chance in
increasing the skills.
Learning new skills to work in team.
To have boosting confidence and skills.
Threat of bullying and harassments.
Multiple responsibility in the family.
Inadequate support from team.
As there is major level of involvement of the weakness which is been identified as important
evidence to have the overcoming the weakness which is been addressed in democratic leadership
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(Cabral, Oram and Allum, 2019). In addition to that with achievement of weakness will be
helpful in greeting with respective opportunity which is achieved greater level of success.
This will be helpful in achieving more level of opportunity which will have proper prioritising to
have change in the increasing level of skill. This is also helpful in learning new level of skills to
have work in team along with boosting more confidence and skills.
Personal development plans
Weakness Procedure Time Resources
Lack in confidence To have the practicing of self-
compassion.
To have affirm yourself
To have proper visualization
want to achieve.
To have embracing self-doubt.
2 weeks Attending proper
seminar which are
conducted in NHS.
Assisting patient with
proper guidance.
Time managements To have proper level of
scheduling.
To make appropriate prioritize.
To have setting up of estimate
boundaries.
To be stay away from the bad
distraction.
3 weeks By having proper
logging of activities.
Maintaining of proper
dairy system.
To have proper
organizing the goals.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that the concept of leadership is more complex in
natures along with being multidimensional phenomena which is gaining more level of clarity
from managements. There is resistance of some changes which may have occurrence because of
respective staff members which is now adapting to have coping with new methods. There will be
inclusion of comprehensive NHS workforce implementation plan which is been seen at new
cross-sector national workforce group, and underpinned by a new compact between frontline
NHS leaders and the national NHS leadership bodies. On the other hand, dealing with patient
over depression is considered to be by weakness. There is cause of disharmony which is
misapplied. In addition to that with achievement of weakness will be helpful in greeting with
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respective opportunity which is achieved greater level of success. This is also helpful in learning
new level of skills to have work in team along with boosting more confidence and skills.
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