Personal Leadership in nursing

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Personal Leadership in nursing
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ASSIGNMENT

In this written assignment, you will clarify your current beliefs about leadership in nursing and you will critically analyze the fit between your current beliefs and the literature. The 1st part is about your own values and beliefs, so it is very personal but then you need to situate it within the literature to demonstrate how you fit or do not fit with the literature.

The 2nd part is much broader and is about your ideal vision related to leadership in nursing as a profession.

The 3rd part is about what you think you yourself should be doing in order to live out your values/beliefs about leadership within the context of your vision for nursing. For example, as an educator who believes in the importance of facilitating a student’s growth might also talk a little about how the current systems constrain me from meeting my goals.

Remember to relate all of your reflections to the literature, even though you will be writing about your personal beliefs and so on. It is expected that you use the literature from course materials, but additional new material should also be sought.

Your personal paper about leadership should be no more than 5 typed pages double-spaced (excluding cover sheet and references) and must follow APA format, including a cover page and judicious use of headings. Please become familiar with the APA materials that I have posted on Moodle and use them to ensure you follow correct APA style. The APA folder within the Introduction folder even contains an example cover page and first page that you could use as the template for how to format your assignment. The references within this course are in APA
format and I recommend you use them as your template for references. I prefer that you single space your references, similar to the format in this course outline, as it saves space and pages.

Depth of analysis is essential, so be careful to explore each area. Your grade will reflect the extent to which you meet the following criteria:

Level of critical reflection in how you describe your values and beliefs related to leadership in nursing, i.e., what is important to you when nursing with persons you are leading, and relate to the literature
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Level of critical reflection in how you describe your vision related to leadership in nursing,i.e., what you envision the practice of leadership in nursing should be, and relate to the literature.

Level of critical reflection in how you describe your mandate as a nurse in the context of leading, i.e., your personal policy or course of action in providing and promoting nursing leadership, and relate to the literature.

Coherence, flow, and clarity of paper; relevant and accurate use of headings; accurate citation of references according to APA; follows APA format, e.g., running head, spacing
between sentences, etc.

include reference page and one of the article you use to write this paper

How can you apply one of the theories of professional nursing studied this week to your nursing care?

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Using Nursing Knowledge to Apply Nursing Theory to Practice

Nurses are increasingly considered knowledge workers. We are valued for what we know and how we think rather than what we do. Select one of the nursing theories from your readings this week (or another nursing theory from your textbook). How can you apply your selected theory of professional nursing to your nursing care? Provide specifics using terminology from the theory you selected to explain your use.

Theory to Practice  

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Nursing theory guides nursing practice for the professional nurse. Watson’s theory of transpersonal caring considers body, mind, and spirit of the person as recipient of nursing care and thus keeps caring as a central component to nursing practice (Hood, 2014). Erci, Sayan, Tortumluoglu, Kilic, Sahin, and Gungormus (2003) studied the effect of Watson’s theory on quality of life and blood pressure readings in patients with hypertension. These researchers concluded that caring nursing practice improved quality of life and decreased blood pressure. By being intentionally caring in their nursing practice, nurses were able to improve patient outcomes. Erci et al. (2003) noted that the Watson “model considers persons holistically together with their physical, psychological and social environment” (p. 137).

How can you apply one of the theories of professional nursing studied this week to your nursing care?

Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility

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Interview with Nursing Information Expert

 

Interviewer Form

 

 

Your Instructor’s Name:

 

Directions: After completing your interview, you must use this form to submit yourassignment to the Dropbox. You may use the form to capture information as you conduct your interview, or fill it in later. The form is expandable and will enlarge the textbox to accommodate your answers. Do not rely only on this form for everything you must include! Please look in Doc Sharing for specific instructions in the Guidelines for this assignment.

Criteria Fill in the answers in this column.
Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee, and the date the interview was conducted.

Required Questions

(answer EVERY question in this section)
1.    Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.
2.    Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.
3.    What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?
4.    Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.
5.    What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high-quality information or data and how is it utilized?

Optional Questions

(Answer only ONE question from the choices below.)
1.    Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”
2.    Please share an example of how GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) impacted a decision related to your information or data collection.
3.    Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.
4.    Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you.

Follow-Up Questions

(Answer all of these. Please do not ask them during the interview.

Instead, reflect and answer them afterwards.)
1.    How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
2.    Resources (scholarly articles or texts). Indicate 2 scholarly resources or texts used prior to the interview to familiarize yourself with the individual’s organization, role, or any of the questions you asked to make you a more knowledgeable interviewer. Resource #1:
Resource # 2:

Does specific education guarantee that a nurse is competent in nursing?

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Ethics, Standards, and Implementation

Codes of ethics and standards for professional nursing practice have been developed by some professional nursing organizations. These codes and standards guide us in our practice and our interactions with consumers, other nurses, and other healthcare professions. Select at least one of the ethical standards or one of the standards of practice and tell us how you implement this in your current practice or how you will implement it in your future practice. Which standard is most challenging to you, and why?

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Ethical Standards and Implementation  
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I agree that Quality of Care (competence) is a very important standard. However, it must be an internal value of the nurse. For example, many states require continuing education to maintain a nursing license. In many states, the nurse must have a specified number of continuing education to renew a license (Hood, 2014). It is an interesting topic which likely has complex answers. Does specific education guarantee that a nurse is competent in nursing? Does this education improve a nurse’s practice and competence?

~Ruth

Reference:

Hood, L.J. (2014). Leddy & Pepper’s Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing (8th ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer/LippincottWilliams & Wilkins.