Strategies for Leadership and Learning Skills in Nursing Practice

This essay, written by a nursing student, explores the development of effective leadership and learning skills within the context of nursing practice. The author reflects on a compelling story and relates it to personal experiences, identifying key challenges such as sexual harassment, medical incompetence, and communication gaps within healthcare settings. The essay outlines specific strategies to address these challenges, including developing workplace safety policies, providing training on sexual harassment, enhancing healthcare management skills, and promoting a culture of safety and quality. The student emphasizes the importance of strong ethics, professional conduct, and the implementation of transformational leadership to foster a positive and unbiased work environment. The essay concludes with a reaffirmation of the student's commitment to ethical practices and proactive measures to address leadership challenges in their future nursing career. The essay is supported by evidence-based literature to provide a comprehensive approach to leadership development in nursing.

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING SKILLS
Leadership and Learning Skills
Name of the University:
Name of the Student:
Authors Note:

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Introduction
The essay intends to develop an effective action plan that is supported with evidenced
based literature in order to deal with the concerns that took place for my personal development as
a learner and leader (Bish, Kenny & Nay, 2015). Considering the same, I will discuss clear
strategies for all leadership challenges faced by me as a student nurse.
Revised Personal Reflection
I find the story of “Saving Patients from Dr Death” by Toni Hoffman quite compelling as
I can relate to it. Being a nursing student, I see the significance of belief, assumption and values
that has been addressed in the particular story. Considering my future profession, saving lives
and taking intensive care is my primary objective while doing it with integrity and taking pride in
the same (Cheng et al., 2016). The code of conduct of a nurse is admirable along with those who
are associated it such as the medical practitioners. As far as our story is concerned, the writer has
pointed out the competence as well as behavior of Dr. Pater portrayed as Dr. Death, who is
alleged of sexually harassing the female staff. I would also appreciate Toni for reporting Dr.
Patel within the first five weeks of his practice considering the nature of wound and pain
accompanied that the patients would suffer after having undergone his operations. However, the
administration opposed him and he was pressurized to take his complaint back but still Toni
continued his course and was able to save several lives after involving government in the matter
(Cope & Murray, 2017).
The story highlighted some of the serious issues which I find to be of utmost significance
considering my career prospects as a nurse. The primary issue is with the professionalism which

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includes sexual harassment. Next comes the ill practice of medicine which is out of health
center’s structure such as the operations which is supposed to be conducted in some advanced
medical institutions should not be carried out in a rural medical hospital. The third issue arises
concerning the competence of the doctor whose subject is surgery (Démeh & Rosengren, 2015).
It shadows the ethical value of such a noble profession. The fourth issue concerns the
communication gap amongst the staff which includes the criticizing Dr. Patel’s incompetence
among each-other without raising voices against him. Moreover, the biasness was one of the
biggest failures of the administration.
Encountering the same issue during the clinical practice, my response will be influenced
by my learning style and the way I lead myself. Being a person of strong ethics and conduct, if I
face any such situation, I would inspect as well as determine the exact cause of wound suffered
by a patient who are being operated. I would try to expose the doctor responsible for the same
after verifying the issue (Solà et al., 2016). If I face sexual harassment, an immediate action is on
the way for the accused as I will report it to the relevant authorities. If I ever come across any
failed case of surgeries conducted by some doctor, then I will conduct a thorough investigation to
ascertain the certifications and qualifications of the doctor as well as his subjects. If I find
anything uncertain, then informing the appropriate authorities will be my first responsibility.
However, if I find that the response from such authorities are not as expected then informing the
Ministry of Health will be my prior mission given my ethics and conduct as a nurse (Liang et al.
2016).

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Strategies for Identified Leadership Challenges
The leadership challenges that I am dealing with being a nurse is regarding professional
conduct with other employees such as sexual harassment. I have considered developing certain
effective strategies in dealing with the same (MacPhail, Young & Ibrahim, 2015). I can deal with
sexual harassment prevention through developing my leadership quality in a way that solely
focuses on the importance of maintainice workplace safety. Being in the nursing profession I will
make try to convince the management of the hospital to maintaining certain decisive policies and
procedures for reporting sexual harassment ad dealing with reported cases. Being a leader, I will
ensure that the managers and staff go through regular training on sexual harassment that includes
in-person classes along with vignettes on role playing (McKenna 2018). My leadership quality
will also focus on developing strategies regarding screening of new employees for monitoring
violence, bullying and harassment risk factors. This can facilitate in dealing with the cases of
sexual harassment in some severe instances. I will make sure that certain strategies can be
developed in dealing with the instances of sexual harassment of employees. I will focus on
prevention of such instances from the top down along with providing regular training to
employees and managers regarding comprehensive sexual harassment in the nursing practice.
Another challenge that I am facing is regarding issue of conducting tasks that are beyond
my ability or even the capability of the health center. Some effective leadership based strategies
are developed by me in order to address such concern. In dealing with such concern, I have
considered to employ my leadership skills in developing necessary health care management
skills (McKenna et al., 2018). I will consider developing certain vital skills in information
management, analytical skills, action skills. Considering the need for developing such skills in
carrying out tasks beyond my abilities I believe that the most vital type of skills that will be

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required includes affective, interpersonal and emotional skills that facilitates working with
people those are more experienced by me. In acquiring this type of skill I will consider
developing leadership skills that enhances the capability to motivate and inspire others (Murray,
Sundin & Cope 2017). Tis will facilitate me to provide other nursing staff with innovative ideas
for negotiating and promoting the joint projects. Certain relationship skills will also be developed
by me in order to develop abilities of self-consciousness so that I can accurately evaluate my as
well as my fellow nursing staff nursing practices. This can also facilitate me in gaining effective
capabilities of collaboration, communication along with abilities of effective team work. I will so
develop ability of promoting and establishing relations with my fellow nursing staff through
which I can help others in obtaining capability to lead groups along with teaching others to
effectively work in the (Roche, Laschinger & Duffield, 2015).
The third challenge that I am experiencing in my nursing profession is regarding the
incompetence of doctors who is involved in offering critical services such as surgery. Effective
strategies in order to deal with such challenge is also considered by me through developing a
culture of safety and quality maintainice, managing trust and ensuring performance of clinical
duties by the doctors. Being a leader I will develop certain strategies so that doctors remain
responsible and aware of carrying out highly successful clinical services such as surgery (Scully
2015). In developing such culture, I will ensure training of doctors for engaging will colleagues
in maintaining and enhancing the safety and quality of patient care. I will also try to develop a
culture in the nursing practice of raining and acting on the patient safety concerns.
Demonstration of effective leadership will also be conducted by me that can contribute to
training and teaching of doctors through acting as a positive role model. Moreover, in order to
train doctors in maintaining superior performance in surgical practice certain supervision

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arrangements will be made that will maintain lines of responsibility for care offered to individual
patients.
The fourth issue in my nursing profession is regarding the management failure for taking
biased actions against the senior employees which has been reported by junior staff. In order to
address such concern, I have decided to use my leadership ability in motivating employees,
generating a culture of responsibility, developing trusting relationships and making the
management informed regarding taking of unbiased decisions for the wellbeing of the nursing
staff and hospital (Yahaya & Ebrahim, 2016). I will make sure that such biasness is reduced
through following a style of transformational leadership in the hospital. To make sure that the
management is unbiased against the senior employees through making communication a priority
among the nursing staff. I will also try to carry out regular meetings along with interacting with
all the senior staff along with the management in a defined manner. This can make people feel
valued and connected.
Conclusion
The essay intended to develop an effective action plan that is supported with evidenced
based literature in order to deal with the concerns that took place for my personal development as
a learner and leader. I gathered from completion of the essay that encountering the same issue
during the clinical practice, my response will be influenced by my learning style and the way I
lead myself. Being a person of strong ethics and conduct, if I face any such situation, I would
inspect as well as determine the exact cause of wound suffered by a patient who are being
operated. I have also gathered that in dealing with such concern, I have considered to employ my
leadership skills in developing necessary health care management skills. I will consider

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developing certain vital skills in information management, analytical skills, action skills. Being
in the nursing profession I will make try to convince the management of the hospital to
maintaining certain decisive policies and procedures for reporting sexual harassment ad dealing
with reported cases.

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