Nursing Leadership: Enhancing Communication Skills Development Plan

This nursing leadership development plan focuses on enhancing communication skills to address challenges arising from inadequate communication in a multidisciplinary clinical environment. The desired outcomes include resolving complex medical issues, improving patient care, preventing errors, and fostering patient-centered communication. For the team, the plan aims to improve project completion speed, accuracy, and role clarity. Organizationally, the goal is to build a trusted reputation, strengthen relationships with patients and stakeholders, and reduce malpractice risks. The plan builds on strengths such as eye contact, active listening, and patience, while addressing development needs like adapting communication styles and handling difficult conversations. Key development actions include leadership personality tests, self and audience knowledge enhancement, direct and clear communication, regular interaction with clinical leaders, and daily team discussions. Success will be measured through supervisor guidance, online resources, and a rating scale over a six-month timeline. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments.

Leadership development plan
NURSING LEADERSHIP

The Development goal
• I want to develop the communication skills for addressing the
challenges due to the lack of proper communication.
• The current environment which is multidisciplinary is increasing the
importance of proper communication in the clinical leadership.
• Through proper communication, the nursing leaders provide coaching
and act as the advocates for the staffs to ensure the presence of
adequate resources to care for the patients.

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The desired outcomes for the
self
• It will help me to resolve complex medical
issues and assert the patients about the
healthcare.
• It will help me to provide optimal patient care
and prevent the errors.
• I will speak up about the errors before
committing them.
• I will become more flexible to the use of
patient –centered mode of communication
while dealing with a patient.

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Desired outcomes for the team
• With enhanced communication skills the
nursing team will complete the projects
in a quicker way and efficiently.
• There will be more accuracy in work. The
team members will understand their
roles and responsibilities.
• It will also give the team members
proper space for understanding what is
required and what is not.

The desired outcome for the
organization
• It will have a trusted reputation.
• The nursing leader’s ability to explain, listen and
empathize with the patient can leave a profound
impact on the psyche of the patient.
• It will strengthen the relationship with the patients,
the shareholders and the service providers.
• The risks related to malpractice will also be reduced
through effective communication.

The self-understanding ( strengths )
• The eye contact,
• Having an intent for listening,
• The body language or the non-verbal
communication,
• The love for reading,
• The patience for learning something.

The self-understanding
( development needs )
• I am unable to adapt to any communication
style with different types of audiences.
• I hesitate while speaking of any serious matter
and use wimpy words several times .
• I also need to prepare myself for difficult
conversation.

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Administration context
Due to the diversity of backgrounds,
perceptions and experiences, people
interpret messages in different
manner which leads to confusion and
high conflict.

Development actions
• A leadership personality test will be useful for
me to get insight into the leadership skills.
• The knowledge of the self
• The knowledge of the audience
• Being direct, clear and specific
• The regular interaction with a well-known
clinical leader.
• The discussion with the team mates on a
different topic everyday.

Development success factos
Timeline – 6 months
The supervisor will be needed for guiding
me in the development.
The online resources, books, journals.
The rating scale can be used by the
supervisor to rate the progress.