NR 447 Week 1 Collaboration Cafe: How Do You Lead?
How Do You Lead?
My nursing practice has been guided by a sense of empathy, integrity, and working as a team. These are some of the significant values that shape my leadership approach in such a way that empathy enables me to create a rapport with both my team and patients, hence encouraging a supportive environment (Moudatsou et al., 2020). Integrity makes me lead by example through transparency in my actions and decisions. All put together, these elements create the core of my leadership style and the foundation on which trust and free communication with my team are developed.
The moment that comes to my mind when I reflect on my professional experiences is the leadership of a project aiming at an upgrade in our unit’s patient care protocols. This leading role in my current position as a nurse developed based on my nursing background and the experience I gained during my work with teams (Qtait, 2023). I have learned that listening actively and keeping all members involvement in the decision-making processes helped to bring improvement to the results of our projects, empowering my team (Leroy et al., 2021). Thus, a collaborative approach forms the building block for my leadership philosophy- standing on mutual respect and shared goals as the effective leadership two-way street.
There are many instances when my nursing values guided me to act in a particular way, especially in difficult situations. For instance, I remember a situation whereby the family had to make a tough decision concerning the end-of-life care of their patient. In such a situation, my stand on the ethical principle of autonomy made me support the desires of the family while at the same time ensuring that the family was informed enough to make a choice (Pugh, 2020). This principle made the experience positive; it gave them the support required by the family at such a critical time. It underscored the significance of ethical leadership in nursing, and just how much our values can have on those we are serving.
References
Leroy, H., Buengeler, C., Veestraeten, M., Shemla, M., & J. Hoever, I. (2021). Fostering team creativity through team-focused inclusion: The role of leader harvesting the benefits of diversity and cultivating value-in-diversity beliefs. Group & Organization Management, 47(4), 105960112110096. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011211009683
Moudatsou, M., Stavropoulou, A., Philalithis, A., & Koukouli, S. (2020). The role of empathy in health and social care professionals. Healthcare, 8(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8010026
Pugh, J. (2020). Informed consent, autonomy, and beliefs. In www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Oxford University Press. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556864/
Qtait, M. (2023). Head nurses’ leadership styles and nurses’ performance systematic review. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 18(1), 100564. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214139123000392
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How Do You Lead?
Collaboration Café
Purpose
The purpose of this Collaboration Café is to reflect on your formal or informal leadership experience across a variety of settings.
Course Outcomes
This Collaboration Café enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision-making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
- CO 4: Describe interprofessional communication and collaboration strategies. (POs 2, 3)
Due Date
Graded Collaboration Cafés in Weeks 1-7 are due Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. For courses with Week 8 graded Collaboration Cafés, the Collaboration Café will close on Saturday at 11:59 p.m. MT. All Week 8 Collaboration Café requirements must be met by this deadline.
Total Points Possible: 50 points
Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Directions
Collaboration Café: Reflect on Knowledge
Step 1: Reflect on your experiences within and outside the healthcare setting and consider how you have exhibited leadership in a formal or informal capacity.
Step 2: Answer all questions below with explanations and details.?No scholarly sources are required.
- Paragraph one: Examine your personal guiding principles and beliefs. Which ones do you think have influenced your approach to leadership?
- Paragraph two: Reflect on your personal or professional leadership experiences. How do you feel your personal or professional background has shaped or influenced your ability to lead?
- Paragraph three: Reflect on instances when your professional nursing values (i.e., quality care, family presence, compassion, etc.) or specific ethical principles (i.e., autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence) guided your actions as a formal or informal leader. How did adhering to these principles impact your experience and the experience of others?
Posts should meet the following criteria:
- Engage in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage with peers and/or faculty by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
- Respond to a peer and/or faculty post.
- Provide additional information or clarification in the reply post.
- Add depth to the Collaboration Café.
- Communicate Professionally: Communicate professionally on all posts.
- Communicate clearly and concisely.
- Communicate respectfully, civilly, and caringly.
- Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
- Participate: Participate during the assigned week. You are expected to meet the minimum participation requirement described below. You will receive a 10% point deduction in a graded discussion if you do not post at least two (2) times on at least two (2) different days during the assigned week.
- Post in the Collaboration Café at least two times.
- Post in the Collaboration Café on two different days.
Grading
To view the grading criteria/rubric, please click on the 3 dots in the box at the end of the solid gray bar above the Collaboration Café title and then Show Rubric.
NR447_W1_Collaboration Café
| Criteria | Ratings | Pts | |||||
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| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeReflect on Knowledge(3 Required Criteria)
Answer all questions/criteria with explanation and detail. 1. Examine your guiding principles and beliefs. Which ones do you think have influenced your approach to leadership? 2. Reflect on your professional background in nursing or outside of healthcare. How do you feel your professional background has shaped or influenced your ability to lead? 3. Reflect on instances when your professional nursing values or ethical standards guided your actions as a formal or informal leader. How did adhering to these principles impact your experience and the experience of others? |
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28 pts | |||||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEngage in Meaningful Dialogue(3 required criteria)
1. Respond to a peer and/or faculty post. 2. Provide additional information or clarification in the reply post. 3. Add depth to the Collaboration Café. |
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14 pts | |||||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCommunicate Professionally1. Communicate clearly and concisely.
2. Communicate respectfully, civilly, and caringly. 3. Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation. |
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8 pts | |||||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeParticipateDuring the assigned week (Sunday the start of the assigned week through Sunday, the end of the assigned week):
1. Post in the Collaboration Café at least two times, and 2. Post in the Collaboration Café on two different days. |
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0 pts | |||||
| Total Points: 50 | |||||||
