Develop a portrait of your own leadership that examines specific leadership characteristics, and articulate the manner in which leadership can be used to empower others.
Leadership may be one of the defining factors in influencing organizational culture. Leadership impacts quality of care and addresses the well-being and development of employees and those served. In healthcare, successful leadership is aligned with ensuring access to care, safety and quality of care, affordability, ethical practice, and creating a culture of inclusion that honors diversity.
The research reports a link between type of leadership and outcomes such as patient satisfaction, organizational performance, staff well-being, engagement, longevity in the field, and quality of care (West et al., 2015). Effective leaders and their organizations deliver high quality and compassionate care that meets the needs of the population served.
The healthcare environment is complex, requiring leadership that is collaborative and embraces interprofessional communication and ethical practices. Leaders in the field must have a good understanding of the emerging healthcare market, be passionate about meeting the needs of the population served, and act as change agents, inspiring and motivating others in an organization that provides quality services at an affordable cost.
It is essential for leaders to be well-versed in a range of areas (practice, research, education) as a means of effective engagement with interprofessional communities. Effective leaders have heightened awareness of self and leadership styles, leading to professional growth, career advancement, and the ability to develop ethical leaders for the future across fields of practice (nursing, health administration, public health).
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to create a portrait of the effective healthcare professional and leader you aspire to be.
write a journal reflection that brings together all the aspects of leadership that you have examined and discussed in this course to evaluate your leadership qualities and create a portrait of the healthcare professional and leader you aspire to be.
Writing in the third person is customary in academic writing; however, you should write in the first person for this assessment.
Reflection Questions
Respond to each reflection question below, using 150–200 words per question. Note that the sub-bullets are prompts to help you get started.
Evaluate your personal approach to healthcare leadership.
Identify the leadership and emotional intelligence characteristics you already possess.
Analyze your strengths and limitations (areas for development).
Analyze your ability to apply emotional intelligence in your personal approach to healthcare leadership.
Compare your leadership characteristics with a predominant leadership style and its application to professional practice.
Assess other leadership styles you might integrate into your skills repertoire to enhance your effectiveness and manage change in healthcare.
Explain how your personal approach to healthcare leadership facilitates interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
Consider interprofessional relationships with staff, community agencies, organizations, and other stakeholders.
Identify your strengths and weaknesses related to interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
Consider how emotional intelligence could facilitate interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
Evaluate best practices for interprofessional communications and compare your communication skills and attributes to those best practices.
Explain how professional ethical leadership principles or codes of ethics can be applied to professional practice.
Identify your discipline’s relevant professional ethical leadership principles (public health, health administration, or nursing).
Evaluate best practices for developing an ethical culture in the workplace.
Explain how healthcare leaders can address diversity and inclusion.
What do diversity and inclusion mean to you as a leader in the field within the context of population health?
Explain the importance of diversity and inclusion to effective leadership.
For example, cultivating good employee and community relations.
How does an effective leader develop a diverse and inclusive workplace (strategies, best practices)?
How do diversity and inclusion contribute to healthcare quality and service to the community?
What best practices would you recommend to address issues of diversity and inclusion?
Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in healthcare.
Define scholar-practitioner, in your own words.
Explain the importance of critical thinking to scholar-practitioners.
Evaluate the influence of scholar-practitioners on healthcare leadership and professional development.
Explain the importance of scholar-practitioners to professional practice. Consider their value in:
Expanding the knowledge base.
Applying new and existing knowledge, research, and scholarship to solve real-world problems.
Improving healthcare quality and safety.
Apply correct APA formatting to your document, including section topic headings, spacing, and margins. An abstract is not required.
Apply correct APA formatting to all source citations.
Length: If you are writing in a Word document, your leadership portrait should be 4–5 double-spaced pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.
References: Cite at least four credible sources published within the last five years from peer-reviewed journals, other scholarly sources, professional industry publications, and assigned readings to support your assessment and analysis.
Academic honesty: Submit a draft of your assessment to Turnitin and make any necessary changes before you submit it to your faculty for grading.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply interprofessional collaboration, communication, and leadership best practices to advance population health.
Explain how a personal approach to healthcare leadership facilitates interprofessional relationships, community engagement, and change management.
Competency 2: Demonstrate effective leadership in practices that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Explain how ethical leadership principles can be applied to professional practice.
Explain how healthcare leaders can address diversity and inclusion.
Competency 3: Explain how scholar practitioners function as leaders in the field of healthcare.
Explain how scholar-practitioners contribute to leadership and professional development in the field of healthcare.
Competency 4: Articulate unique professional healthcare identity to other professional team members and to the public.
Evaluate one’s personal approach to healthcare leadership.
Competency 5: Address assessment purpose in effective written or multimedia presentations, incorporating appropriate evidence and communicating in a form and style consistent with applicable professional and academic standards.
Convey purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
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