Nursing leadership

[Ceres9]

Hello, I have a nurse leadership paper to write, and would love if a nurse leader or manager can answer a few of these questions. The paper will not contain any personal identifiers such as name or location. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

1. Tell me what leadership position you have in this organization?

2. What formal/informal leadership positions have you held in your career?

3. How long have you been a nurse?

4. How did your organization prepare you for your position?

5. Describe your leadership style or your model of leadership for me?

6. What do you consider the most important characteristics of a nurse leader?

7. You give me an example of how you empower your employees?

8. Describe a change that you and your staff/colleagues have been directly involved in this year?

9. What advice do you have for a novice nurse /novice nurse leader?

10. Is there anything else that you would like to tell me?

[AliNajaCat]

If you are a student, you have access to actual nurse leaders, including your faculty, some of whom have likely held leadership positions along the way. One reason you get this assignment is to have you talk with an actual person who can demonstrate that he or she is in the position, and to get out of your comfort zone by talking to a new person. This is a skill you'll need when you are applying for your first job, so this is practice for that, too.

I could answer your questions with all sorts of foolishness and tell you I'm the DON in a big university hospital... but that would be a lie. And you'd never know. Go find a live person, buy him or her a cup of coffee, and really talk about these issues.

[Ceres9]

She doesnt allow us to interview the same person that another student interviewed, so our options are limited, she doesnt allow us to interview faculty or clinical professors, and she said no registered nurses which doesnt make sense because the class essentially teaches us that registered nurses are leaders. If there were not so many restrictions I would have interviewed a couple of great nurses by now. We have 49 students in our cohort alone and 50 in a scholarhip cohort so thats 99 students. I have gone out searching and out of my comfort zone maybe I should go out of county, but I figured it didnt hurt to try online, but you do have a point..I thank you for your kindness and response =).

[AliNajaCat]

Call the public health department, the school nurses, the health clinic at the college, the pain management clinic, the local jail, find a nurse in independent practice as a midwife, FNP, legal nurse .... nurses are in a lot of places. Think outside of hospitals.