Assignment: Insight into nursing leadership roles

This assignment allows the student to gain insight into nursing leadership roles via an interview of a local nursing leader. Note! You are expected to interview this leader!! Your paper should be written from this perspective.

Instructions

You may conduct your interview via personal meeting (practicing safe distancing), telephone interview, and/or email with follow-up to clarify any information.

Choose a nurse leader that agrees to be interviewed. Using a structured and organized interview process, the student will be able to describe the leadership style and leadership skills of the nursing leader as well as reflection of personal leadership traits. The focus for the challenge in health care section should relate directly to managing these units, facilities, etc. during the COVID pandemic and what has been implemented for best management practices and safety.

Reading: Sullivan, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4. See textbook attached

Guidelines

Interview this nurse leader/manager (RN), discussing the following elements in your nurse leader paper:
Choose a nurse leader that agrees to be interviewed and discuss why you chose this person.
Analyze and describe the nurse leader’s leadership traits and style using examples from your course textbook and relevant journal articles.
Describe the organizational structure, health care setting or health care model where your nurse leader practices.
Describe how your leader positively addresses a challenge in health care (as described in Chapter 1 of your Sullivan text).
Paper length is 5 pages excluding title page and reference page. The paper should follow APA guidelines.

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.