Leadership

Please answer all 5 questions

1.) Briefly describe your position as a registered nurse. Who are the leaders in your facility? Are your leaders effective? If not, why? If yes, what makes them a good leader? What style of leadership does your immediate supervisor practice? What is the most important quality in a leader? What have you learned from your managers (positive or negative)? Do you feel supported by leadership?

2.) Describe your leadership skills in three words only. 

3.) How do you personally feel about change? How do you react to change? How could you become a better change agent? Discuss some current healthcare changes that affect nursing and if there is anything you can do about it? Consider any current legislation that affects nursing in your state. Discuss some current healthcare issues and how they might affect nursing care and patient outcomes.

4.) Discuss the team approach in your current or past facility. In your experience, do you find that the team approach to nursing is effective? What are some of the positive aspects and barriers that you have encountered? Review current literature to identify any nursing studies on teams. Discuss the findings and if you agree or not.

5.) Examine the nurse practice act for state of California. Look at the guidelines for delegation and scope of nurse practice from your state Board of Nursing in California. Discuss an interesting fact about the delegation rules for your state.

Instructions:

Your original response to the question posted must be comprehensive and meaningful. Your response must have a clear, well-formulated thesis. Your original post must have a minimum of two references: the textbook being one and a scholarly source being the other (reference within last 5 years) The references must be cited in the post. You should give attention to sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

The BOOK im using is

Finkelman, A. (2015). Leadership and management for nurses: Core competencies for quality care with eBook(3rd ed.). Boston: Pearson Education

Tips:

•Discuss the main idea of the question posed

•Give examples from personal experience or previous research (always preferred)

•Include some discussion of how the post applies to or adds to one’s understanding of the concept –this is best when it is shown to apply to a real-life example

•Discuss a connection that the viewer sees between the reading or question and a previous assignment or discussion (an extra plus!)

•Present a conclusion