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May 28 2021
Running Head: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH 2019 1
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH 2019 11
SCHOOL OF NURSING
SNPG925 (AUTUMN)
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH 2019
PART B— REFERRING MODEL PROPOSED BY JAMES M. KOUZES AND BARRY Z. POSNER
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Leadership on a personal level: Opportunities 3
Leadership on a personal level: Challenges 4
Assessing the personal experience by the leadership model 5
Effective leadership in healthcare 6
Following Kouzes and Posner Leadership model in personal leadership skill enhancement 8
Consolidation for ideas supported in Visual Presentation 10
Conclusion 10
References 11
Introduction
An organisation works on various factors such as collaboration, teamwork, integrity, passion to grow. Few more intrinsic factors that drives an organisation is – Trust, mutual understanding, motivation, respect of varied ideas, appreciation, ethical workforce and culture, care for the stakeholders as much as for oneself, parity. These mentioned traits in an organisation make it an ideal place to work for any one, especially in an industry of healthcare, where the stakes are as important as a human life.
In this assessment, personal leadership traits required in a healthcare set up will be assessed and the situations experienced on a personal level weighing them under the principles postulated by James M. Kouzes and Ba
y Z. Posner’s leadership model will be scrutinised. In addition, we will try to dissect down the critical challenges faced by a leader in such an organisation and ways to overcome such challenges. Later in this assessment, using the leadership model, again, we will emphasis on few points on developing our own leadership skills under the five exemplary practices and ten leadership commitments.
Leadership on a personal level: Opportunities
As an intern nurse in a healthcare centre, I have been on the receiving end of many opportunities such as opportunities to meet and care for the patients, understand the work culture of a health care set up, joining hands with fellow interns and work in collaboration, learn from the doctors and management officials, learn and understand ethical behavior towards stakeholders of the organisation. It was in a lot of sense, transformational for me as this was my first step towards professional career and it will remain instrumental for me in my future endeavours.
The most important learning came out from being a team lead on a project assigned to group of interns of interns. We were supposed to divide our shifts in taking care of intensive care ward patients. Instructions were to for mini teams out of a number of interns who would be divided accordingly in shifts of day and night, assist doctors on their visits, make reports on attendees, including doctors to the patients and submit it to the Human resource manager by the end of the day. All the reports were to be collected by me from each team, including my own report, as I was a part of a mini team as well and communicate with the human resource department of the healthcare.
The job was not easy; I had to go through many hiccups in the beginning. All the queries and challenges went through me during the report collection by the teams; many challenges came to my notice during communication with other fellow interns. I also had opportunity of discussing ideas to improvise the operational skills of shifting fellow teammates and communication among us while discussion during
iefing sessions. It made me realise that effective communication is of the most important factor while working in a team.
My effort was to
ing the whole team on the same page and work efficiently so that our team stands out from the rest. We inculcated a way where any member who has a challenge during his shift was assisted by another teammate and in return, the former team mate substitutes the later during work hours. This gave me a sense of teamwork and mutual understanding in my team.
Leadership on a personal level: Challenges
As a Nurse, we were supposed be all alert, optimistic and obey to all the duties assigned to us. Doctors needed our assistance in required counters with the patients; management needed us to be on our toes at any point of the time required. Patients needed us for their assistance and sometimes just to talk to them and listen. Being a nurse has been a challenging in terms of integrity as well. As informed by Popescu and Predescu (2016), running behind the schedule is never acceptable. Be it the patient culture and communicating with them, or be it the colleague engagement in the team, I had to be always on the receiving end of the human resource department when I had to submit every team’s daily report to management.
Many technological advancement in the facility was unknown to me, many code of conduct about the project was learnt by mistakes, and unfortunate events occu
ed at work. Few Doctors did look down at few of us while attending a patient and questioned our competencies to be a Nurse after all. This made many of my teammates, colleagues feel stressed, and many tried to quit out of pressure exerted during the work ours.
I had to uplift their spirit every now then and make them realise their dreams and the reason we all were there to make a career out of healthcare. I had faced lack of management assistance too towards my team when required in alternating shifts for people and during personal requests on health issues. I
egular working hours used to give rise to certain challenges as well as we had to I had modify the shift hours for the next team of interns to take over.
Assessing the personal experience by the leadership model
The perception of leadership comes from a genuine discipline. Leadership is not hierarchal. It is not how an organisation has its employees positioned and the power assigned to them. Although any organisation’s managerial level employees must possess the leadership traits to lead their team through thick and thin (Rosenbach, 2018). Sonnino (2016) stated that Kouzes and Ba
y (2017) postulated a leadership model that had five exemplary practices and ten commitments in practices that accompanied them. I have tried to incorporate the five principles in my work and tried to assess it accordingly. It helped me in developing leadership qualities in me which are needed to deal with the problem. It also helped in
inging the confidence to take necessary steps towards the existing problem and to come out from that situation.
From the five exemplary practices and ten commitments, the first practice that I...