Leadership Development and Goals in a Nursing Context

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of leadership within the nursing profession. It begins by assessing the author's personal and professional strengths and weaknesses across various aspects, including accountability, communication, career planning, personal journey, and reflective practice. The report then explores the application of different leadership styles, specifically transactional and transformational approaches, within the context of a healthcare setting, emphasizing the importance of cultural diversity, transparency, and multigenerational workforce management. Finally, it outlines a personal goal for leadership growth focused on enhancing conflict management skills, detailing specific activities such as active listening, recognizing conflict, and maintaining a positive attitude to foster effective resolution strategies within a nursing team. The report is supported by relevant academic references.

Running head: LEADERSHIP IN NURSING
Leadership in nursing
Name of the student
Name of the university
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Table of Contents
Strengthens and weaknesses of different areas of professional aspect:...........................................3
Ways of using current leadership style:...........................................................................................5
Personal goal for leadership growth:...............................................................................................6
References:......................................................................................................................................8
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Strengthens and weaknesses of different areas of professional aspect:
Being the nurse, it is my prime responsibility to promote the health and wellbeing of the
patients. However, Fischer (2016) showed that effective leadership plays a major role in
managing the performance of other healthcare practitioners and take necessary action
accordingly in order to improve the same. Still, being a nurse I have certain strengths and
weaknesses which are discussed below:
Personal and professional accountability:
Strengths Weaknesses
 Ability to use the skills of nurse
managers.
 Analytical ability
 Effective communication skill to meet
with diverse range of patients.
 Emotional Intelligence
 Ability to conduct self-assessment.
 Too much emotional attachment with
the patients
 Lack of optimistic approach
 Lack of confidence
 Inability to maintain confidentiality
 Lack of knowledge on latest legislative
framework.
Career planning:
Strengths Weaknesses
 Ability to conduct internal research
 Capability of discussing proactively
with my mentor.
 Lack of comprehensive strategic
planning
 Incapable of conducting personal
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 Discussion with the family members
regarding career planning.
 Ability to assess job descriptions, job
posting and internship opportunity.
 Got success in the aptitude test.
SWOT analysis
 Lack of action plan regarding SWOT
analysis.
 Inability to complete certain activities
within the dead line.
 Incapable of developing a compact
resume.
Personal journey disciplines:
Strengths Weaknesses
 Ability to create favorable attitude
towards nursing practice and thus
accomplish career objective
 Development of cooperation and self-
control which is the key of running the
professional functioning efficiently.
 Good understanding about the right of
conduct.
 Improper way of maintaining desired
condition in the healthcare organization
 Unable to control the behavior and
thereby attain goals and objectives.
 Not competent of taking disciplinary
action based on the situation.
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Reflective practice reference behaviors;
Strengths Weaknesses
 Ability to engage in the process of
continuous learning.
 Promoting practical values
 Helping the coworkers to engage in
continuous learning
 Helping others to express their
knowledge, concern and feelings.
 Lack of reflecting the opportunity to
provide support to the coworkers.
 Unable of working proactively with
that of the patients and their family
members.
 Not having ample creative thinking
skill
 I am unable to reflect on my own
experience.
Ways of using current leadership style:
As discussed by Park (2015) the nature of health and social care sector is changing in a
rapid manner with the prompt diversification of the demand of the service user. Appropriate
leadership plays a major role in terms of generating positive behavior among the healthcare
practitioners which is very much needed in terms of leading them to provide high quality of
healthcare service to the patients. Being a nurse, it is my duty to apply effective leadership in
order to lead the healthcare practitioners properly. I have followed transactional leadership style
for the sake of making strong planning based on the healthcare needs.According to Porter-
O'Grady and Malloch (2015) in the healthcare organizations, the patients come from different
cultural and linguistic background. Thus, it is imperative to maintain cultural diversity among the
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healthcare practitioners in order to deal with the people coming from different cultural aground.
With the assistance of transformational leadership style, I have to maintain cultural diversity in
my workplace.
As a leader I will assess the components of culture effectively and apply them in the
broader organizational context and thus maintain cultural competency which is very much
needed in terms of dealing with the patients coming from different background. Maintaining
transparency is one of the major factors of providing high quality of service to the patients
(Grossman and Valiga 2016). Thus, as a nurse, It is my duty to practice social justice and thereby
enable all the healthcare practitioners to provide equal care to all the people without making any
kind of discrimination. Being a leader, I have also to maintain multigenerational workforce in
order to provide comprehensive care to all the people irrespective of their age.
Personal goal for leadership growth:
Leadership is one of the most significant factors of improving the health outcome. It has
been observed that conflict is the inevitable factor in the healthcare organization as the healthcare
practitioners come from different background. However, Scully (2015) showed that conflict can
pose a major threat towards taking comprehensive care to the patients. Thus, as a leader, it my
personal goal is “To strengthen my conflict management skill”. The plan of improving conflict
management skill is as follows:
Activities Actions
Active listening  To listen the perception of all the team members
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carefully.
 To maintain face-to-face communication with
all the team members
 To ask open ended questions to the staffs
Recognize the conflict  To figure out the underlying issues that are
leading to conflict
 To use critical thinking skills
 To create a compassionate environment
Maintaining positive
attitude
 To improve emotional intelligence
 To understand the emotion of others
 To control own emotion.
As opined by Finkelman (2017) active listening is one of the major ways of managing
conflict. As a leader, I have to understand the perception of all the team members and thus take
collective action accordingly in terms of resolving the conflict. The platform of active exchange
of information is needed to be maintained in which the team members can communicate openly.
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References:
Finkelman, A., 2017. Professional nursing concepts: Competencies for quality leadership. Jones
& Bartlett Learning.
Fischer, S.A., 2016. Transformational leadership in nursing: a concept analysis. Journal of
Advanced Nursing, 72(11), pp.2644-2653.
Grossman, S. and Valiga, T.M., 2016. The new leadership challenge: Creating the future of
nursing. FA Davis.
Park, H.J., 2015. Correlations among nursing professionalism, critical thinking disposition and
self-leadership in nursing students. J Korean Acad Soc Nurs Educ, 21(2), pp.227-235.
Porter-O'Grady, T. and Malloch, K., 2015. Leadership in nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett
Publishers.
Scully, N.J., 2015. Leadership in nursing: The importance of recognising inherent values and
attributes to secure a positive future for the profession. Collegian, 22(4), pp.439-444.
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