Self-Assessment Essay: Nurse Manager's Reflective Analysis

This essay presents a reflective self-assessment of a nurse manager, exploring the crucial aspects of personal and professional accountability within the nursing profession. The assessment delves into strengths such as care efficiency, patient evaluation, staff competency, and patient satisfaction, while also identifying weaknesses in areas like data collection, vision statement development, and human resource management. The essay outlines career planning strategies based on the assessment results, emphasizing managerial skills and areas for improvement. Furthermore, it discusses personal journey disciplines, reflective practice behaviors, and current leadership strategies, highlighting the importance of ethical practices and time management. Finally, the essay outlines leadership goals focused on enhancing time management skills through structured scheduling and boundary setting, reflecting on how these skills are crucial for patient care. This paper is a valuable resource for students seeking insights into nursing leadership and self-assessment.

Running head: SELF-ASSESSMENT
Self-Assessment
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
This essay speaks about the personal assessment of a Nurse Manager in a reflective
manner. The personal and professional accountability is very crucial for a nurse manager as it is
directly associated with the profession of the nurse manager. The professional accountability
refers to the capacity of taking responsibility regarding nursing actions, judgment related to any
patients’ condition. In addition, maintaining the quality of the patient care is also associated with
the professional accountability of the nurses. In the personal accountability is the self-belief that
the nurse is completely responsible for her own action and its results. Moreover, the carrier
planning is also an important issue for the future of nursing manager. In addition, the personal
disciplines issues are also reflected in this essay. The reflective essay will also discuss about the
change in the workplace by using current leadership model. Lastly, a personal goal is also
identified according to the strength and weakness of the nurse manager for her future.
Personal and Professional Accountability
As described, professional accountability, is the capability of a nursing person to perform her
nursing duties in a proper and good manner. Moreover, it is associated with the patients’
wellness and decision regarding patients’ health is very crucial for a nursing manager. Therefore
the personal accountability is the self-confidence regarding any decisions and its consequences
and that is too related to the patients’ health. From my self-assessment a few strength and
weakness regarding the personal and professional accountability are detected.
Strengths and weakness
From the assessment result a few strengths and weakness are detected. In the Science section I
got 3.1 rating overall and in the assessment it is good score for the assessment test. In the detail

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breakdown of the science section it was observed that I had a few strong areas such as care
efficiency, evaluation of the patients, well understanding of the staff competency and it is
associated with the patient acuity. Along with this I am also very good in attaining patient
satisfaction, securing patient safety, integrating modern technology into the services used for
patients’ treatment, evaluating the patients’ outcome, using the modern techniques of patient care
that is shared decision making process, handling of the pressure situation well. Although, I have
also a few weakness regarding the personal and professional accountability. I found weakness in
establishing data collection methods, in establishing vision statement, managing human resource,
developing orientation program, in analyzing cost and benefits, application of leadership theory
in the nursing practice. In addition, I also poor score in sections like terminating staff, monitoring
staffs’ performance in the self-assessment test.
Career planning
I found from the assessment result that I have some positive sides and a few negative
sides and I need to focus more on the negative sides of myself in order to get success in my
future. I can easily evaluate outcomes and assess the patients’ condition and according to that I
can proceed in the treatment of that patient. Along with this I also have a managerial skills and
that may help me to continue my career as a manager. My area of strengths are negotiation skills,
recruitment skills, manage the project plans, to monitor budget, to maintain a healthy work
environment in my work place by practicing multicultural approach. In addition I can also apply
team management skills, assisting the staffs to set their goal. Moreover I need to brush up a few
skills such as monitoring staff fitness, reducing the staff retention, developing orientation
program and also I should spend more time in the orientation process, cost benefit analysis
program.

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Personal journey disciplines
Personal journey discipline is the leadership quality of the nursing staff. In this section I
can easily say that I have good leadership quality according to the self-assessment test. I found
that, I have some good qualities and it is evident that a good nurse leader should have those
qualities. From the assessment I found that I know my current job description and job
requirements well and I can compare those qualities with the current practices of myself. I can
manage the personal growth through career planning, self-assessment, pursuing education and
advancement of the education. I have also familiar with the practice of ethical behavior which is
very important for a nurse and I always maintain the standards and practices of ethical issues.
Moreover, I am capable of applying modern techniques of action learning the practices of my
nursing practice and that will help me to continue my personal journey discipline in my career in
future. However, I have to concentrate on the professional development skills and on the
professional association that is associated with the networking.
Reflective Practice Reference Behaviors
Reflective practice can be a strength of myself as according to the assessment result I am
not bad at all in the reflective practice. Under the reflective practice, the knowledge of active
practice of reflection is included and it is associated with the leadership behavior (West et al.,
2017). In the assessment the score is satisfactory. So it can be said that it is one of my strong
point in terms of leadership skills of mine. As a part of this skill I will use action learning while I
am dealing with a patient. So, it is important to continue my reflective practice behavior
throughout my career.
Current leadership strategy

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From the assessment test, I noted that, I have a few qualities that I can use to set change
in my current workplace. For example it can be said that, I can promote the ethical practices and
policies in my current workplace as some patients complained about breaching of ethical
practices during their hospital days. Therefore ethical policies should be maintained in the
hospitals (Grace, 2017).
Leadership Goal and implementation
As a part of the leadership development, I will like to strengthen my skill of time
management as it is very important to utilize time as it is associated with patients’ health (Porter-
O'Grady & Malloch, 2105). So I need to brush up this leadership quality in future. As a part of
this time management program, firstly a daily schedule should be made (Weiss & Tappen, 2014)
and I will follow that schedule seriously. In addition, a few boundaries should be identified to get
rid of from the bad distractions.

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Weiss, S. A., & Tappen, R. M. (2014). Essentials of nursing leadership and management. FA
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West, M. A., Eckert, R., Steward, K., & Pasmore, W. A. (2014). Developing collective
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