Nursing Leadership Guide

To be successful in today’s health care arena, nurse leaders need a variety of skills. Guided by theory and research, implementation of leadership and management skills affords nurses the opportunity to collaborate, head teams, and facilitate optimal health care delivery in a variety of settings. With these changes, the role of the professional nurse is dynamic and challenging. Preparation for these changes gives the professional nurse a solid understanding of the dynamics needed for the situation at hand.

In order to develop leadership and management competencies, it is vital that a historical review as well as knowledge and understanding of present day leadership and management theory be realized. Coupling this foundation with personal style and situational need is a formula for leadership success. This simply adds more tools to the professional toolbox. The more options we have, the better able we are to match our actions to the situation presented. With this additional scope of understanding, the professional nurse can demonstrate the dynamics necessary for success. In addition to meeting immediate demands, planning and implementing long-term change in relation to current and future health problems can be put into action.

For your course project, you will develop a leadership guide for a group of junior nurse managers participating in a leadership class. The leadership guide should speak to a variety of leadership components. Your professional conceptualization will be based on your current or past practice. Consideration of change and health care delivery in your area of nursing, professional and personal values, holistic assessment and implementation, and current climate and culture will be included in this guide. These dynamics will be explained within the framework of nursing theory, historical understanding, and predictive outcomes and needs.

 

In the final step of developing the guide in Unit 10, you will bring all of these components together along with a one-page summary that discusses how having this knowledge can impact the nurse’s role in leadership and management. You may organize your leadership guide in any order, but it should follow a logical sequence. You may also be creative and incorporate graphics if you wish; just be sure that you have included and addressed all of the required components.

 

In the final step of developing the guide, you will bring all of these components together, along with a one-page summary that discusses how moral, legal, and ethical behaviors can influence a nurse’s role in leadership and management. You may organize your leadership guide in any order, but it should follow a logical sequence. You may also be creative and incorporate graphics; just be sure that you have included and addressed all of the required components that you will be graded upon.

Your completed guide should contain these components:

1. Title page.
2. Table of contents.
3. Assessment of a Nursing Leadership Problem (Unit 2).
4. Annotated Bibliography (Unit 3).
5. Leadership Theories, Styles, and Application (Unit 5).
6. Strategic Analysis and Leadership Interventions (Unit 8).
7. One-page summary.
8. Reference page.

Writing Requirements

• Length: Your paper must be at least 10–12 pages long, excluding the title and references pages.
• Use double spacing with one-inch margins.
• Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• Format the paper (including references) according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting guidelines.
• References: At least 15 references. Please include the sources from your annotated bibliography as part of your references. You may use your text and other articles provided in the course but be sure to provide a minimum of two references from other sources. Use APA style throughout.

• Project Objectives

  To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:

  1. Evaluate theories and practices of leadership and management for application to specific health care situations.
  2. Reflect on personal leadership style and preferences based on contemporary theory.
  3. Incorporate knowledge of nursing history and theory into nursing practice.
  4. Integrate the standards of the professional nurse and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one’s own nursing practice.
  5. Apply effective clinical knowledge, skills, and judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct and indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes.
  6. Review the literature in the field of nursing for application to plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect patient care situations.
  7. Integrate effective evidence-based leadership, management strategies, and practices into one’s own professional practice.
  8. Incorporate the attributes of professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into professional nursing practice.
  9. Evaluate the benefits and limitations of how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health service delivery and patient outcomes.
  10. Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; and correctly format citations using APA style.

• Criteria	Non-performance	Basic	Proficient	Distinguished
  Evaluate theories and practices of leadership and management for application to specific health care situations. 10%	Does not evaluate theories and practices of leadership and management for application to a specific health care situation.	Lists theories and practices of leadership and management at a basic level and partially applies to a specific health care situation.	Evaluates theories and practices of leadership and management for application to a specific health care situation.	Evaluates in substantial detail theories and practices of leadership and management for application to a specific health care situation.
  Reflect on personal leadership style and preferences based on contemporary theory. 10%	Does not reflect on personal leadership style and preferences based on contemporary theory.	Writes at a minimal level on personal leadership style and preferences based on contemporary theory.	Reflects on personal leadership style and preferences based on contemporary theory.	Reflects on personal leadership style and preferences based on contemporary theory, evaluates personal leadership style in impressive depth.
  Incorporate knowledge of nursing history and theory into nursing practice. 10%	Does not incorporate knowledge of nursing history and theory into practice.	Recognizes knowledge of nursing history and theory into practice at a basic level only.	Incorporates knowledge of nursing history and theory into practice.	Incorporates the knowledge of nursing history and theory into practice, and evaluates nursing history in context of today’s practice.
  Integrate the standards of the professional nurse and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one’s own nursing practice. 10%	Does not integrate the standards of the professional nurse and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one’s own practice.	Integrates, partially, the standards of the professional nurse and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one’s own practice.	Integrates the standards of the professional nurse and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one’s own practice.	Integrates thoroughly the standards of the professional nurse and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one’s own practice.
  Apply effective clinical knowledge, skills, and judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct and indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes. 10%	Does not apply effective clinical knowledge, skills and judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes.	Outlines some effective clinical knowledge, skills and judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes.	Applies effective clinical knowledge, skills and judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes.	Applies impressively effective clinical knowledge, skills and judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes.
  Review the literature in the field of nursing for application to plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect patient care situations. 10%	Does not review the literature in the field of nursing for application to plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect patient care situations.	Recognizes some relevant literature in the field of nursing for application to plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect patient care situations.	Reviews the literature in the field of nursing for application to plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect patient care situations.	Reviews thoroughly the literature in the field of nursing for application to plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect patient care situations.
  Integrate effective evidence-based leadership and management strategies and practices into one’s own professional practice. 10%	Does not integrate effective evidence-based leadership and management strategies and practices into one’s own professional practice.	Outlines effective evidence-based leadership and management strategies and practices into one’s own professional practice.	Integrates effective evidence-based leadership and management strategies and practices into one’s own professional practice.	Integrates with distinguished clarity effective evidence-based leadership and management strategies and practices into one’s own professional practice.
  Incorporate the attributes of professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice) into professional nursing practice. 10%	Does not incorporate the attributes of professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into professional nursing practice.	Outlines some of the attributes of professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into professional nursing practice.	Incorporates the attributes of professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into professional nursing practice.	Incorporates with distinguished clarity the attributes of professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into professional nursing practice.
  Evaluate the benefits and limitations of how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health service delivery and patient outcomes. 10%	Does not evaluate the benefits and limitations of how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health services delivery and patient outcomes.	Lists some of the benefits and limitations of how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health services delivery and patient outcomes.	Evaluates the benefits and limitations of how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health services delivery and patient outcomes.	Evaluates at a substantial level the benefits and limitations of how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health services delivery and patient outcomes.
  Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics and correctly format citations using APA style. 10%	Does not write clearly and logically and writing shows little attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and does not correctly format citations using APA style.	Uses sentence structure that is mostly clear, with a few minor spelling or grammatical errors but fails to attribute quotes and citations in a few places, or allows some inconsistencies in APA style.	Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and formats citations correctly, using APA style.	Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, with no errors, and formats citations correctly using APA style, and all information is accurate and up-to-date.