Nursing Leadership Report: Analyzing Professionalism in Healthcare

This report analyzes two interviews conducted with healthcare professionals, a clinical psychologist, and an ER manager, to explore their perspectives on nursing leadership. The report compares and contrasts their views on professionalism, stewardship, authenticity, and advocacy. Both interviewees emphasize the importance of professionalism, competence, empathy, and integrity in healthcare. They agree on the significance of leadership in managing critical situations and providing quality patient care. However, their perspectives differ on how these principles are applied in their specific roles. The clinical psychologist focuses on the influence of professionalism in treating behavioral dysfunctions, while the ER manager emphasizes teamwork and decision-making. The report also examines their views on steward leadership, with the clinical psychologist viewing it similarly to servant leadership, while the ER manager considers every nurse a steward. The report concludes by highlighting how authenticity and advocacy are crucial for effective leadership and patient care.

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Comparing and contrasting the responses of both the interviews...................................................3
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Comparing and contrasting the responses of both the interviews
Both the interviews conducted with two of the healthcare team members possess various
similarities and differences in their opinions regarding professionalism, steward leadership along
with professional influence, power, authenticity and advocacy. While comparing the opinions of
both clinical psychologists and ER manager, it is observed that both of them have similar views
regarding professionalism. They stated that professionalism is the ability to perform with
competence, consideration, empathy and integrity. Healthcare possesses a team of professionals
whose duty is to communicate and maintain honesty, confidentiality and responsibility (Fisher et
al., 2018). They also believe that professionalism is confirming to nursing and ethical standards
of care. Both of them reveals that leaders are stewards as they are well aware of how to manage a
critical situation and provide quality care to the patients. This helps them to enhance their
professional skills and gain the best patient outcome. Similarly, both of them also agrees with the
fact that it is significant for a leader to exercise professional authenticity, influence, and power
along with advocacy while working with colleagues. All these factors help healthcare team
members to manage critical situations, bring positive change and make appropriate decisions to
gain better results.
In contrast, clinical psychologists believe that professionalism influences his work by assessing,
treating and diagnosing the behavioral dysfunctions and psychological issues associated with
mental and physical health. Whereas, ER manager states that professionalism influences her
work by showing teamwork, respect and striving hard to provide quality care and the capability
to make appropriate decisions. Based on the concept of steward leadership, clinical psychologist
states that stewardship as well as servant leadership are determined to be a similar concept when
executing a leadership role. Whereas, as per the views of the ER manager, every nurse within a
healthcare system is a steward even though they do not possess the qualities of servant
leadership. According to the view of the clinical psychologists applying the principles of
authenticity and advocacy help the healthcare team members to perform their work
systematically. The leaders who exercise authenticity by accepting their mistakes and has the
power to influence others to achieve their target (Clayton & Miller, 2017). Whereas, the ER

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manager states that exercising authenticity and advocacy not only helps in working with the team
members but also helps in handling the patients safely.
References
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Fisher, C. C., Cox, V. C., Gorman, S. K., Lesko, N., Holdsworth, K., Delaney, N., & McKenna,
C. (2018). A theory-informed assessment of the barriers and facilitators to nurse-driven
antimicrobial stewardship. American journal of infection control, 46(12), 1365-1369.