Nursing Leadership Reflection: Skills, Changes, and Goals

This report provides a comprehensive reflection on nursing leadership, based on an assessment of personal and professional skills. The author, a nursing student, identifies their strengths, such as a passion for the profession, discipline, and reliability, and acknowledges weaknesses like a lack of time for extra studies and the need for improved communication skills. The report discusses the importance of leadership in nursing, emphasizing the need for nurse leaders to set examples, embrace change, and provide clear job descriptions. It outlines areas for personal growth, including gathering information and improving competence through research and consultation. The author sets a goal to enhance leadership skills, focusing on confidence, trustworthiness, efficient communication, and understanding the importance of a healthy work environment. The report concludes by emphasizing the nurse leader's responsibility to monitor patients' health and well-being through effective communication and therapeutic processes. The report includes references in APA format and addresses the rubric requirements of the assignment.

Running Head: Nursing 1
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Running Head: Nursing 2
Introduction
One of the responsibilities and obligations of an individual who is a nurse by profession is to
take care of the patients in the hospital. A nurse is, therefore, a person who possesses perfect
knowledge in the domain of medical education. Nursing, however, is considered as an
autonomous profession of science. It is also a sector of interrelated health care procedures which
is made up of streams of activities such as safeguarding from illnesses, advocating health
concerns and supporting patients psychologically. Nursing is a process through which nurses
diagnose and treat patients through their knowledge and skills (Martin & McFerran, 2017).
Strengths
Myself being a nurse, I have some personal and professional strengths and weaknesses which
are laid on the foundation of the four points of content mentioned in the above statements. When
considering my strengths I admit that I passionately enjoy and love my profession this is because
I am always willing to learn something new such as different ways of doing things and making
future plans of how I could perform better in my profession. Discipline also is a key requirement
that I feel I possess as a strength in nursing. And I have set my own limits and measures that can
help me take my profession on a different level. This is portrayed by being polite, kind and
hospitable to the clients and the colleagues at work. Being reliable is also a strength because
people's lives lie on my hands I, therefore, have to be punctual, available and accurate.
Weaknesses
Just as strengths I also possess weaknesses that limit my ability to achieve my leadership goal of
learning more new things to grow my profession where the first one is that lack of sufficient time
to do extra studies and to conduct researches through reviewing new studies being done and
latest trends. Secondly, I need improvements or rather perfection in communication skills
because being a nurse requires one to be effective in communication so that it is easy to
understand and respond to their concerns and also create a friendly working environment with
others through proper communication (Young & Pitcher, 2015).

Running Head: Nursing 3
Suitable Changes in nursing
Leadership is a difficult task in all fields of organizational operations including nursing,
particularly when you consider the uniqueness of the issues presented and handled by the
healthcare professionals. According to (S & BA., 2015) a nurse leader is held accountable for
both coordination of all the inter-departmental associations as well as staff interactions in
specific departments. A nurse leader is and should lead by example for the other employees by
embracing development changes and should not be afraid of failure or being confronted. This
can be achieved through proper training, and providing a job description document to all the
other employees to ensure they are aware of their duties without being supervised all the time
(Woodrow, 2015).
Areas of growth
Therefore, I consider leadership as a significant skill which should and must be included in a
workforce in order to introduce changes which bring along more responsibilities. In leadership
development, I have placed a personal objective to gather as much information as I can, whereby
the information should help me learn and improve my competence to become a highly competent
professional in my line of duty. This goal can be achieved through hard work, consulting higher
professionals, reading books and conducting researches through the internet (Humphreys, 2011).
For a nurse to be considered to have strong leadership skills, he or she should possess the
following aspects:
 He or she should be confident
 The nurse should be trustworthy and should empower his or her colleagues
 The nurse should communicate efficiently and on time.
 Should comprehend the essence of sentimental intelligence in leadership
 Should involve the staff in the participation of clients' care conditions
 Should identify the requirements for both individual and professional growth
 Should also comprehend the significance of a healthy working condition for the
employee’s satisfaction, rates of pertaining, enhanced patients’ results and improved
performance for the entire organization.

Running Head: Nursing 4
Thesis statement
As I conclude, it is the responsibility of a nurse leader is to keep track and records of their
patients’ health and wellbeing by conducting the various therapeutic and diagnostic processes for
their patients to the best of their abilities to meet their patients’ specifications and satisfaction. a
Nurse is can also be referred to as the patient’s manager. They should, therefore, have a
communications system that is reliable and convenient when it comes to analyzing problems and
finding solutions (Boyd, 2013).
References
Boyd, C. (2013). Medicine Management Skills for Nurses. North Bristol: John Wiley & Sons.
Humphreys, M. (2011). Nursing the Cardiac Patient. Wolverhampton: John Wiley & Sons.
Martin, E. A., & McFerran, T. A. (2017). A Dictionary of Nursing. london: Oxford University
Press.
S, A., & BA., C. (2015). Educating nursing students in clinical leadership. PubMed, 23-88.
Woodrow, P. (2015). Nursing Acutely Ill Adults. UK: Taylor & Francis.
Young, S., & Pitcher, B. (2015). Medicines Management for Nurses at a Glance. wales: Wiley.