Leadership interview assignment
Critical analysis- Address 3 themes, like my leader – leadership style, Authenticity, idealized influence, inspirational motivation. With 3 -4 scholarly references
Personal reaction- Write about me, what I am taking from this interview
In this assignment students will interview a nurse leader who demonstrates effective leadership practice and reflect on their own leadership capacity within the context of this experience. Interviewing a nurse leader provides a student with the opportunity to link leadership theory to practice and make meaning of leadership complexities and the application of leadership (Smith & Roebuck, 2010). Reflecting on one’s own leader skills and abilities within this context not only supports practice expectations, it is a hallmark of the personal and professional leadership development.
Critical Analysis (MAXIMUM 1 pages): Provide a critical analysis of the interview by integrating and making connections between the topics/issues/ideas the interviewee discussed (e.g., the interviewee’s beliefs about nursing leadership and their leadership style, attributes, and characteristics) and the state-of-the-art leadership literature in nursing and other disciplines. At a MINIMUM, your critical analysis should integrate 3 peer-reviewed sources not including those used in the course (i.e., not including course materials, resources from the modules or additional readings within the module). You are expected to synthesize information from multiple sources (e.g., several peer reviewed papers) to inform and support your positions/claims/ ideas/opinions/interpretations. Topics addressed should follow from the interview and may include, but not limited to, those discussed in the course.
It should make the relationships between the interview information and the literature evident and provide interpretations and make conclusions about these relationships. A critical analysis involves more than simply presenting ideas from the literature alongside observations from the interview or adding a citation(s) after presenting an idea.
Personal Reaction and Application (MAXIMUM 1 pages): Write a reflective summary that considers your own leadership skills and abilities (based on the self-assessments you will complete) in the context of what you learned from your leadership interview. In your reflective summary identify the insights and learning you have gain from the assignment process and self-assessment and discuss how you can apply these in your own leadership practice and development. This section should address the impact of learning (from the interview analysis and your self-assessment) on your leadership development and provide concrete applications of learning to your current leadership practice and development.
As a nursing student, I had the opportunity to interview my unit nursing supervisor who has her BScN and is currently working to complete her degree as a Nurse Practitioner.
The nurse leader utilizes different leadership roles when it comes to leadership style since she started teaching and depending on the situation. Mrs. A. usually leans towards the transformational style of leadership to the servant leadership style on her day-to-day routine at work. According to Mrs. A, to be a successful leader one need to be able to demonstrate leadership qualities such as effective communication, motivation, accountability, delegation and provide constructive feedback.
When it comes to conflict resolution, Mrs. A. likes to listen to both parties,
Mrs. A. feels appreciated when she helps others and make them feel better by some way or other
A nurse leader is someone who must be effective trustworthy, inspires, coordinates, integrates, and offering support for others to accomplish the organizational goal
