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Nurse Leader Interview Summary
Introduction
Nursing leadership is an important aspect that every nurse should practice and have
the knowledge to enable them to become successful leaders in nursing practice. A nurse
leader is supposed to lead, influence, and motivate nursing staff and other medical teams in a
healthcare setting to enable them to collaborate to achieve collective organizational goals
(Collins et al.,62). Therefore, this Nurse Leader Narrative summary will discuss the elements
of an interview with one of the Nurse Leaders who shared her information concerning
nursing leadership.
Leader’s Role, Background, and Organization
The Nurse Leader, who is a woman, works in a State hospital and in the Department
of Public Health and currently works in the mental health department to assist patients
suffering from this illness. She is married with one child and one grandchild whereby she has
worked as a nurse from 1989 to the present. The position fits within the organization because
of the past experience and skills gained while working as a charge nurse in this department.
Her daily roles as a charge nurse include guiding the staff in the department, offering help in
difficult situations affecting the medical team, implementing urgent policies and processes
needed to enhance positive health outcomes, and assisting in any case where her help and
expertise are required. The Charge nurse's long-term objective is to become the hospital
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manager to ensure more improvements and success in the hospital through effective policies
and professional development plans.
Mentors and Professional Development
The Charge Nurse chose this career because she loved helping people and learning
new things offered by the nursing career and practice (Messineo et al., 7). She attended
Harvard School of Nursing and gained a bachelor's degree in nursing. The other certificates
she has are an advanced practice nurse practitioner and a Certificate in Nursing leadership.
The experience she has accumulated in her working years includes that she worked as a
charge nurse RN111 from 1989 to 2004 as a nurse leader in the mental health department. In
2004, she transferred to a state hospital to be a charge nurse in the C4 unit, where she led the
team and gave medication to patients. She worked there for sixteen years; in 2020, she was
transferred to the Department of Public Health and became the leader of medical staff who
wanted to further their studies. However, due to neglect from Don, she was transferred to the
mental health department where she currently works at the Tewksbury State Hospital. Mental
Health Hospital. The Nurse Managers in the hospitals she has worked at have been her
mentor as they taught her about nursing leadership and the activities to perform to enable her
to become a leader in the future.
Leadership Style
The Nurse Leader leadership style for the nurse has been the transformational
leadership style. In this, she describes how it has helped her in delegating her duties as a
charge nurse and making decisions (Kiwanuka et al., 139). In this leadership, she has been
leading by example and encouraging the medical staff to perform beyond expectations. The
challenge she faced and continues to face as a charge nurse is the uncooperative medical
team, who are unwilling to collaborate with other medical staff to deliver excellent medical
services. She explains the relationship between superiors, subordinates, and peers. She said
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the ways which have enabled her to interact and build better relationships are through
effective communication, leading by example, and knowing all people individually.
Challenges, Accomplishments, and Professional Memberships
The Charge Nurse's community activities include teaching the community about
healthy lifestyles and disease prevention and promotion. These activities have helped the
community much. She has enrolled in professional memberships, including the Association
of Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) and the American Organization for Nursing
Leadership (AONL). She has been rewarded as the best Charge Nurse in all the organizations
she has worked for, showing her dedication and effective leadership. The challenges she has
faced include some uncooperative medical staff, inadequate hospital resources to deliver
quality patient care, and the workload to handle each day in their leadership role.
Summary
I have learned from interviewing this Nurse Leader that she is dedicated to her work
by leading other medical staff by example. Leading by example has improved relationships
between her and other staff in the hospitals she has practiced at, enhancing collaboration and
delivery of quality care, thus leading to positive health outcomes. She has vast knowledge
and skills from her educational experience, which a nurse who wants to become a nurse
leader needs.
I have also learned that transformational leadership is the best leadership style,
especially for a nurse aspiring to practice Nursing Leadership. This leadership style is the
best, and I will incorporate it in my future nursing leadership role. Together with the
democratic leadership style, any person who wants to be a nurse leader would have the best
set of leadership styles to steer the healthcare facility to success while building their
leadership skills.
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Works Cited
Collins, Emma, et al. "Applying transformational leadership in nursing practice."=Nurs
Stand=35.5 (2020): 59-66.
Kiwanuka, Frank, et al. "Nursing leadership styles and their impact on intensive care unit
quality measures: An integrative review."=Journal of Nursing
Management=29.2 (2021): 133-142.
Messineo, Linda, Mario Allegra, and Luciano Seta. "Self-reported motivation for choosing
nursing studies: a self-determination theory perspective."=BMC medical
education=19.1 (2019): 1-14.
