NHS FPX 8002 Assessment 2 Personal Leadership Portrait

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Capella University
NHS-FPX8002
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Personal Leadership Portrait

1. Evaluate your personal approach to health care or public health leadership.

I approach healthcare leadership as integrating practice with strategic management skills due to my capacity to empathize, reason and find consensus solutions. Emotional intelligence enables me to acknowledge the unique contributions people make to the team and to provide supportive feedback when they are going through tough situations instead of address the gaps head-on. Healthcare leaders must balance the technical competence and interpersonal attributes to manage increasingly complicated healthcare settings (Shanafelt et al., 2020). Key elements of my transformational leadership style are the empowerment of team members through motivation and intellectual stimulation that promotes an atmosphere conducive to innovation. Occasionally delegation is a problem because I am more of an oversight rather than delegating empowerment to my team. Despite the fact that adaptive leadership is comparable to my professional ethos, I would like to combine situational approaches in order to adjust my influence techniques based on the stage of development and specific circumstances. Furthermore, servant leadership practice would allow me to prioritize organizational needs over personal glory while staying committed to patient-oriented outcomes. Complementary growth of my complementary leadership paradigms will enhance my capacity to be a successful leader of healthcare teams in fast-paced industry transitions without compromising quality care standards.

Shanafelt, T., Trockel, M., Rodriguez, A., & Logan, D. (2020). Wellness-centered leadership: Equipping health care leaders to cultivate physician well-being and professional fulfillment. Academic Medicine, 96(5), 641–651. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000003907

2. Explain how your personal approach to health care leadership facilitates interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.

My adaptive leadership approach can assist teams to establish a strong relationship through a unified decision-making process and effective communication. I know the skills of the members but avoid the required conflicts in the process of resolving the problems. I do community work partnering with local groups but it is difficult to reconcile health objectives with limited resources. People skills: I can learn how stakeholders feel when the change is implemented, particularly when I apply the three-step change process proposed by Lewin (Burnes, 2020). I also convey vision well when in the process of change, but am not very active in terms of pursuing change through implementation. I am a good listener who should be more to the point when it counts. Cross-team meetings are regular evidence of my dedication to information sharing. My awareness determines when team members require assistance, which establishes safety that promotes innovation and collaboration in solving healthcare problems. My leadership is based on clinical knowledge, management skills, empathy, and critical thinking to make decisions. I also aim to combine technical skills with interpersonal skills to navigate the modern complex healthcare environment without losing sight of quality patient care and organizational objectives.

Burnes, B. (2020). The Origins of Lewin’s three-step model of change.

3. Explain how professional ethical leadership principles and/or professional codes of ethics can be applied to professional practice.

My ethical values in relation to the profession as a nursing leader include prioritizing patient choice, doing good, and fairness as the main healthcare decision-making factors in addition to being honest and accountable. My approach to the American Nurse Association Code of Ethics is to promote the rights of patients, confidentiality, and ensuring that all receive equal care. I discuss issues related to patient care every day, promote ethical discussions during team meetings, and can report ethical issues. Ethical healthcare leadership refers to the professional approach to issues in organizations through the application of ethical moral practices in a way that allows team members to express themselves freely about matters (Keselman and Braithwaite, 2020). In order to establish an ethical workplace, I established frequent ethics training, established ethics committees consisting of different kinds of people and established rules where patient dignity outshines money issues. My ethical leadership involves the awareness of cultural differences which influences ethical perspectives, consulting frontline employees on ethical issues and rewarding employees with highly ethical practices. My commitment to making decisions at all times that are of professional ethical quality helps to foster an atmosphere of moral courage and principled healthcare.

Keselman, D., & Braithwaite, M. S. (2020). Authentic and ethical leadership during a crisis. Healthcare Management Forum, 34(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/0840470420973051

4. Explain how healthcare leaders can address diversity and inclusion.

Diversity and inclusion, as a healthcare leader, I view them as the way to address health disparities by introducing different perspectives to difficult issues. Good leadership is about providing environments where the members of the team with diverse backgrounds feel empowered and appreciated. Diversity encompasses not only demographic diversity but also thinking styles, disciplines and experiences which empower healthcare groups. Inclusion in healthcare doesn’t imply equal representation, it implies equal access to cultural competence and representation throughout the organization to produce improved patient outcomes and develop community trust (Nikpour et al., 2022). Leaders must encourage diverse workplaces by facilitating fair hiring, establishing mentoring programs to support underrepresented groups, and implementing culturally sensitive policies that are responsive to diverse patient needs. Having a diverse healthcare team reflects the community where the healthcare organization functions, facilitating better communication with patients of various backgrounds and increasing cultural sensitivity in care delivery. Regular cultural competence training, creation of diversity councils with decision making powers are some of the best practices.

Nikpour, J., Hickman, R. L., Jones, D. C., Guarda, R. M. G., & Broome, M. E. (2022). Inclusive leadership to guide nursing’s response to improving health equity. Nursing Outlook, 70(6), 10–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2022.02.006

5. Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in the field of health care.

A scholar-practitioner integrates methodological inquiry and clinical practice by bridging applied theoretic models and clinical case challenges through the use of evidence-based nursing practice. It is clinical reasoning that enables nursing professionals to critically evaluate the validity of research, question underlying biases, consider the evidence utilized in the practice context, and reason about the effects of implementation plans on the bioethics of interventions. As they model professional growth, facilitate intellectual inquiry, and exemplify how nursing research is utilized to inform clinical decision-making in multifaceted healthcare delivery systems, nurse leaders contribute significantly to the organization of culture. The confluence of nursing scholarship and patient care is more needed in the area of healthcare reform calling for the use of innovative and empirically-based interventions (Bruce & Phetlhu, 2024). The scholar-practitioners involved in developing nursing science identify areas to be investigated, formulate clinically pertinent research questions, disseminate results and publish findings in professional conferences. By approaching clinical issues systematically using nursing research, evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutics and developing clinical practice guidelines via quality improvement programs that translate evidence into ascertained nursing protocols, a scholar-practitioner enhances patient outcomes. Current evidence-based practice standards in nursing interventions are enabled by a scholar-practitioner capability of integrating evidence in multidisciplinary contexts within methodological rigor.

Bruce, J. C., & Phetlhu, D. R. (2024). Future-proofing nursing scholarship and nursing education: A critical analysis of nurse educator preparation for higher education. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 21, 100797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2024.100797