Week 4: Leadership: Establishing Relationships and Influencing Change
This week's focus is on developing foundational interpersonal skills that will
... [Show More] prepare you for professional practice as a leader and change agent. As a leader, how will you influence change in your professional specialty area? Identify two strengths you have that will promote strong leadership. Identify two areas of improvement to your skill in leading and influencing change.
What are two priority strategies you will implement as professional development tools for leadership?
It is important to influence change as a Family nurse practitioner, and as a healthcare leader, by having a well-defined knowledge of all set goals needed to achieve and to solve patient, family and population health issues. This will have, as its ultimate result, health recovery, health promotion and maintenance of good health status. Leadership skills in nursing are of paramount importance to stress ethical decision making in challenging situations. In order to eradicate health inequalities, and to promote a high level of healthcare quality in nursing, nurse leaders ought to have a broad and reliable assimilated information of healthcare goals that are specifically set to pursue the eradication of inequalities and promotion of quality care. This level of care is emphasized from direct care as well as on population or community. Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing (AACN, 2011)
Many healthcare professionals strongly belief or think that advocacy particularly belongs to nursing practice, as the essential characteristic of the nursing profession. I firmly belief in advocacy, and therefore I applied it during my practice to promote strong leadership and high quality of care along the life spam. Confronted with a dynamic, rapidly advancing, complex and uneven health care system, patients, families and population frequently have a huge deficiency of vital information they need to make informed decisions regarding their healthcare and status.
Advocacy is important, to ensure that patients’ needs are taken care of, and they receive the required level of care, especially for the vulnerable population at the microsocial level, when nurses are involved in care delivery.
All nurses can advocate for the nursing profession, whether formally or informally through collectively performed actions; nurses advocate for enhancements and improvements in their work place as well as the development of their professional career.
According to Scully (2015) clinical nurse leaders are important in the accomplishment of patient care ingenuities; she states that respectable leaders positively influence the delivery of a respectable care, while und-developed leaders will also influence a deprived care.
According to Abraham, Burnette, Wannarka, & Weerheim, (2013) multidisciplinary team work is rewarding and lead to results and problem solving in healthcare. Working together as a member of a multidisciplinary team, nurse leaders and other healthcare professionals get a better understanding of roles and tasks, and it also assists to identify and define how each team member can help to guide and stimulate a greater and improved patient care. Therefore, this is the second strength to support and promote strong leadership and high quality of care. The ability
to effectively communicate and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team is important to accomplish the highest quality of care possible along the life spam.
Emotional intelligence is a skill I would considered I would needs improvement and polish when dealing with the topics of leading and influence change in nursing. According to Tyczkowski et al. (2015) emotional intelligence is defined as having the capabilities of being talented to inspire oneself and persevere even when hindrances are encountered; to be able to regulate instinct and post-pone gratification; to modify personal moods and keeps anguish from swamping the capacity and skill to reflect; to sympathize and to have expectations.
In their study Tyczkowski et al. (2015) also outline that Emotional intelligence is an ability that can be learn and taught by an expertise through programs of professional growth which substantial positive consequences during its application to nursing education programs, health care organizations and the excellence of management services in the nursing profession.
In the current, continuing changing health settings within organizational and financing world of health care, it is of great significance; that nurse leaders in any point of care from the administrative arena to the direct clinical care settings have strong knowledge base, control and dominion of healthcare policy, organization and financing. Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing (AACN, 2011). I as a future leader would like to be display confidence and dominion of policy, organization and financing, once I am confident and able to deeply understand and apply these three important factors in leadership, then I will be able to effectively lead by example. I will be able to provide and influence the delivery of excellence quality healthcare which is also a cost-effective one.
While practicing as Family nurse practitioner I will implement strategies such as effective interprofessional relationship among all disciplines as well as proficient application of emotional intelligence. I will apply these skills for my professional development as a future leader in order to motivate healthcare professionals to provide high class healthcare and positively influence patient long the life spam to make informed decisions regarding their health. Also, be able to put in place learn these leadership skills which will align my future decision making to provide an ethnic approachable impressive quality of nursing care delivery, healthcare team coordination and be able to expect responsibility for care delivery. . Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing (AACN, 2011).
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2011). American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The essentials of master's education in nursing. Retrieved from http://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/Publications/MastersEssentials11.pdf
Abraham, P., Burnette, A., Wannarka, E., & Weerheim, L. (2013). Nursing
Excellence: Leadership Opportunities Promote Staff Nurse Growth and Development. Nurse Leader,11 (6), 61-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2013.07.012
Scully, N. J. (2015). Leadership in nursing: The importance of recognizing inherent values and attributes to secure a positive future for the profession. Collegian, 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2014.09.004
Tyczkowski, B,. Vandenhouten, C., Reilly, J. Gaurav, B., Kubsch, S. M., Raelynn, J. (2015). Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Nursing Leadership Styles Among Nurse Managers. Nursing Administration Quarterly. 39 (2), 172-180. DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000094 [Show Less]