Nursing Leadership Report: Leadership Style Analysis and Reflection

This report explores the concept of nursing leadership, focusing on the transformational leadership style. The author analyzes their personal strengths, including emotional intelligence, critical thinking, communication skills, and mentorship, and also identifies weaknesses in management skills. The report references the 16Personalities profile to provide further insights into the author's personality traits, such as being a 'defender,' and highlights areas for improvement, such as being more open-minded and managing stress levels. The report also provides a real-life example of the author's leadership in an emergency room setting. The author aims to improve their leadership capabilities to build a positive team culture and to provide better patient care. References are provided to support the discussed concepts of leadership.

Running Head: NURSING LEADERSHIP
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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The nursing leadership style chosen by me is transformational leadership because it is
based on the encouragement of the employees (Breevaart et al., 2014). This style promotes and
motivates other staff members to be positive and deliver patient-centred care with optimum
quality and safety. I want to develop this style in future because it is done with a common
mission and vision. It results in teams that are more engaging and productive when compared to
other teams that are not following this leadership style. In my previous experience, I went
through a situation where I had to lead my fellow nursing staffs in an emergency room. The
patient was in critical condition and needed serious intervention. I immediately instructed the
nurses to measure his vital signs and place him in a comfortable position because he was feeling
breathless. The outcome was positive because the situation was under control after a time due to
my clinical reasoning (Delany & Golding, 2014). The efficiency of my clinical interventions
were the highlights of my action and what could have been done better was the management of
all the staffs, because it went chaotic due to confusion between the nurses.
I want to lead and inspire my team to build a positive team culture and it will be done
with the help of leadership qualities and strengths I can deliver. Some of my key strengths are
emotional intelligence, critical thinking, communication skills and mentorship that is required for
an efficient nursing leader. These qualities can benefit me in achieving my goal of building a
positive culture in my team as a nurse (Dyess et al., 2016). The only weakness I have according
to me is poor management skills, which is one of the major qualities required in a leader. This
will obstruct me in delivering quality service and production. My 16 personalities profile suggest
that I am a defender, and it signifies that I am a dedicated and a warm protector, who are
sensitive but have excellent analytical abilities, people skills and productive social relationships.
The area of improvement for such personality is that need to be more open-minded rather than

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being conservative, and they have a habit of taking things personally because they are sensitive,
but this is not a preferable quality for a leader. Defenders are usually shy and humble, and they
fear to acknowledge their feelings because they think they will hurt others unknowingly. Another
area of improvement will be to release themselves of all the stress because they overload
themselves (16Personalities, 2019).

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References
16Personalities. (2019). Introduction | Defender Personality (ISFJ-A / ISFJ-T) | 16Personalities.
Retrieved 28 December 2019, from https://www.16personalities.com/isfj-personality
Breevaart, K., Bakker, A., Hetland, J., Demerouti, E., Olsen, O. K., & Espevik, R. (2014). Daily
transactional and transformational leadership and daily employee engagement. Journal of
occupational and organizational psychology, 87(1), 138-157.
Delany, C., & Golding, C. (2014). Teaching clinical reasoning by making thinking visible: an
action research project with allied health clinical educators. BMC medical education, 14(1), 20.
Dyess, S. M., Sherman, R. O., Pratt, B. A., & Chiang-Hanisko, L. (2016). Growing nurse
leaders: Their perspectives on nursing leadership and today’s practice environment. OJ Nurs.