Leadership

[Sandy O]

How do you foster a positive work environment as an NP?

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

More then happy to help you but in all your posts you are posting what appear to be student assignment questions. Perhaps you could give us a little more context about the questions and the community will be glad to answer and help. Thanks. 

[beachynurse, ASN, BSN]

traumaRUs said:

More then happy to help you but in all your posts you are posting what appear to be student assignment questions. Perhaps you could give us a little more context about the questions and the community will be glad to answer and help. Thanks. 

Agreed. I went and looked at the posts, and they were all posted on Saturday. I don't mind helping people, but they should be up front and say that it's for an assignment.

[Sandy O]

My posts aren't assignment questions—they're just things I've been curious about as I approach graduation next year. I haven't given much thought to my future beyond graduation, as my focus has primarily been on completing school. I'm still undecided about whether I'd like to work in an inpatient or outpatient setting. However, based on my experience working as a nurse in a military environment, I know that I do not want to mirror leadership styles I observed while shadowing PMHNPs on military posts. Thank you.

[djmatte, ADN, MSN, RN, NP]

Sandy O said:

My posts aren't assignment questions—they're just things I've been curious about as I approach graduation next year. I haven't given much thought to my future beyond graduation, as my focus has primarily been on completing school. I'm still undecided about whether I'd like to work in an inpatient or outpatient setting. However, based on my experience working as a nurse in a military environment, I know that I do not want to mirror leadership styles I observed while shadowing PMHNPs on military posts. Thank you.

Leadership is definitely a thing for the military, but not something you will be expected to focus on early on as a NP.  In the civilian works, your leadership will reflect in how well you work with your team and foster relationships therein.   That's assuming that you're even set up in a team like environment.

In the military, you will have leadership expectations, commensurate with your rank. You'll be expected to demonstrate leadership in both the clinic as well as while interacting with the soldiers and or staff that you out rank. Leadership qualities and styles vary with individuals. In general, the best qualities I've faced were individuals that were straightforward about their concerns and or observations, but also had the capacity to not overreact. An easy trap some providers fall into is feeling overwhelmed or overreacting to your patients, their staff, or a number of other things that they can't control. these issues often will lose the confidence of your team and only undermines your ability to advance in leadership roles.

[Sandy O]

I appreciate you taking the time to share the qualities you've found most beneficial through your experience, I'll definitely take that into consideration. Thank you for sharing.