Combining Advocacy With Nurse Leader

¶ … Personal Strengths and Weaknesses Personal and professional accountability Personal growth and development Competent Ethical behavior and practice Expert Professional association involvement Novice Certification Expert I am quite satisfied with my educational life. Having spent many years in diligent studying I have obtained practical knowledge. I maintain ethical values rigorously as I feel obligated to maintain integrity as a part of my upbringing. Ethics is a very sensitive aspect of healthcare and any false step may spoil your career.

Despite my professional development and certifications, I believe I have not developed personal association and connection. Socializing for professional gain is quiet helpful to be familiar with other professionals and to know your own level and I consider I still have a lot to learn in this area. To know each other problems, socializing helps a lot. Exchanging information and strategies can be very beneficial and I need to work on this aspect.

Career planning Knowing your role Expert Knowing your future Competent Positioning yourself Novice I am very well-aware of my present job responsibilities and what is expected from me in my current position. I feel a professional should set the benchmark and keep evaluating his or her performance according to that benchmark. I have already practiced it in the past and discovered it to be quite beneficial. Despite understand the career planning, I feel it needs improvement.

I am aware of the requirements of my career objectives and I feel through effective planning, I can accomplish my goals. Due to inability of effective planning, I have to learn more to project myself. Despite knowing the destination, I am unable to find the right path that would lead me to my destination. I consider believe that, by working on this aspect, I can evolve as an expert. I also consider myself less flexible and want to improve in this area too.

Personal journey disciplines Shared leadership/council management Competent Action learning Expert Reflective practice Competent I believe in shared leadership. I have a sense when to retreat and give others opportunity to lead. Changing my responsibility from leader to follower does not hurt my ego and I can do it without reservations and inhibitions. I don't believe in 'I', when it comes to teamwork. To be successful as a team, delegation of responsibility and working together should be the tact.

I usually use my knowledge of previous decisions and their results, and this has made me able enough to improve my decision- making skills over a longer period. I can give authority to my team easily and encourage them to find out solutions to the problems through innovative, if unconventional approaches.

Reflective practice reference behaviors/tenets Holding the truth Competent Appreciation of ambiguity Expert Diversity Expert Holding multiple perspectives without judgment Expert Discovery of potential Competent Quest for adventure towards knowing Competent Knowing something of life Expert Nurturing the intellectual and emotional self Novice Keeping commitments to oneself Novice following strict ethical guidelines, brings a sense of uprightness. I am also able to work and find my way through difficult circumstances. This helps gain vast experience in problem-solving ability.

Variety of people and their experiences are encouraged and I am able to form a fostering environment that creates respect and open-mindedness towards different people and opinions. By establishing mutually beneficial place of knowledge, I am able to create learning environment for people. It is, however, difficult for me to enhance my emotional self and moderation. In the present world moderation is imperative which I find difficult to maintain. Discuss how you will use your current leadership skill set to advocate for change in your workplace.

For all people who work in a professional framework, leadership is a very essential behavioral skill. As, I am able to work effectively in teams and can form cooperative framework of knowledge-exchange, I feel myself competent to change my working environment. To be adjustable to the unstable settings, change is an essential aspect that is required by all organizations. Using my contemplation skills that I possess, and with the help of my co-workers, I am able to form short-term goals easily and can stop and study.