NHS 8002 Unit 9 Assignment Personal Leadership Portrait

NHS 8002 Unit 9 Assignment Personal Leadership Portrait

The health care environment is complex, requiring leadership that is comprehensive and collaborative in the field. It is essential for leaders to be well versed in a range of areas (practice, research, education) as a means of effective engagement with interprofessional communities. Effective leaders have heightened awareness of self and individual leadership styles, leading to professional growth, career advancement, and the ability to develop leaders for the future across the fields of practice (nursing, health administration, public health).

Your final assignment in your first course will bring together all the aspects of leadership that you have examined and discussed over the last 9 units. In this assignment, you will analyze and evaluate your own leadership qualities to create a portrait of the health care professional and leader you aspire to be.

Since this assignment requires you to develop a self-portrait, you may write this paper in first-person voice. Note: It is very important for your development as a scholar-practitioner that you recognize that writing in the first person is not usually acceptable in academic papers. However, given the nature of this assignment, it has been deemed appropriate to make an exception here. Please remember that the third-person voice is the universal norm in academic writing. You should always exercise careful consideration before departing from this norm. If you have any questions about this, please contact your courseroom instructor, or post a question in the Ask Your Teaching Assistant area of the NHS Learner Success Lab.

Assignment Instructions

You have been offered the opportunity to apply for a leadership position in your organization. As a part of the application process, your potential employer uses the National Center for Healthcare Leadership’s (NCHL) competency model of leadership development (NCHL, 2016), which includes a self-assessment on behavior (relational), technical and operational skills, and strategic ability. In preparation for the interview, you will complete a personal leadership portrait using the information from the Leadership Self-Assessment you completed in Unit 8. It is important that you demonstrate your knowledge and experience in each of the areas outlined below.

To complete this assignment, you will need to:

Identify and analyze at least one leadership theory or style that you believe best aligns with your own thoughts of what leadership means. Use that theory or style (or theories or styles) to analyze your strengths and weaknesses.

Evaluate the leadership characteristics you already possess. Then, identify at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop. Explain how these characteristics will allow you to guide, educate, inform, and influence others to manage change in the field of health care.

Evaluate how your leadership attributes will serve to help you build and maintain collaborative relationships across disciplines within your community.

Identify the main principles of ethical leadership in health care, citing your sources, and evaluate how you can best apply them given your leadership style. Where do you have room to grow in this area? How can you prepare yourself to do so?

Analyze how you, as a health care leader, can address diversity and inclusion. Explain why these factors are important and how they contribute to effective leadership in health care. Give an example you have experienced or read about. Cite your sources.

Apply the Capella Scholar-Practitioner Learning Model, linked in Resources, to analyze how your professional and academic experiences will contribute to and guide your development as an effective leader.

Summarize how the concepts and information you have gained from this course and from your own research will guide your continued leadership development and how you will apply them in practice.

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Be clear and concise in your writing. Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.

Use correct grammar and mechanics. Be sure to support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from scholarly sources.

Cite your sources appropriately. Use correct APA formatting for all in-text citations and references.

Include a title page, abstract, and reference page. An APA style paper template and associated tutorial are linked in Resources to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Format your work per these documents.

Note: The assignment requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Personal Leadership Portrait scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Example assignment: You may use the Personal Leadership Portrait Example, linked in Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Ethical quandaries are common in health care. Because of the young mama’s age and the fact that she had just given birth to her fifth child, the ethical quandary in your post sounds horribly sad. In my area, the most common ethical quandaries in the adult ICU are related to elderly patients who are subjected to painful lifesaving procedures (intubation, CPR, continuous dialysis, etc.) because their families do not know what their wishes are and do not want to be the ones to make the fateful decision. It creates an ethical quandary for the nurse, who is responsible for carrying out all of the physician’s orders and subjecting the elderly patient to treatments they may not have wanted. Because of those sad situations, I’ve discovered that I ask the difficult questions like “would you like us to do compressions on you if your heart stops?” “Would you like a breathing tube if you can’t breathe properly on your own?” If they respond that they do not want any artificial, life-saving measures, I notify the physician and have them second that important conversation before any action is taken. The state of Arizona has a packet called “Life Care Planning Packet” that contains information on all of the important documents that the patient and their family must complete (Attorney General AZ, n.d.).

Nursing research advances knowledge about health and the promotion of health throughout the lifespan, as well as the care of people with health problems and disabilities, and nursing actions to improve individuals’ ability to respond effectively to actual or potential health problems (Institute of Medicine, 1983). In hospital settings, fall risk is and will always be a concern. “30-50% of falls result in some physical injury, and fractures occur in 1-3% of cases,” according to the National Library of Medicine. There is no such thing as a harmless fall, with psychological consequences leading to loss of confidence, delays in functional recovery, and prolonged hospitalization. However, falls are not true accidents, and there is evidence that a multidisciplinary clinical team approach can reduce their occurrence (Morris, 2017). My facility currently uses the “WAR” strategy, which stands for “within arm’s reach.” If a patient meets the fall risk criteria, we educate them that we must always be within arm’s reach of them when they are out of bed. Patients frequently express their dissatisfaction. However, we always explain that it is for their safety and benefit. If they have any intravenous lines, oxygen tubing, or connections that connect them to their bed. For example, they must contact continuous pulse oximetry before falling. Staff must supervise or stand by to ensure that they arrive at their destination safely. When patients get out of bed, they should wear double-sided skid-proof socks. Bed alarms are required. Patients can, of course, refuse to have better alarms installed, but this is documented. Since the WAR initiative was implemented last year, our fall rates have decreased. We had 16 falls on day and night shifts combined last year. We’re halfway through 2022 and have only had 5 so far. So far, so good!

Reference

National Center for Healthcare Leadership.(2016). NCHL organizational assessments. Retrieved from http://www.nchl.org/static.asp?path=2852,3241

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

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Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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