NURS 480W Leadership
During my time in my leadership class I have been able to learn about what it truly means to be a leader. How even as a nurse we have a responsibility to care for our patients, ourselves, and the healthcare system. We have a voice that needs to be used. We do this through advocating for our patients, writing to our law makers, speaking up about issues to our hospital leaders, and through guiding those who follow us. Throughout this course I have gotten to work within countless groups and teams. We got to take turns taking on different roles such as being the leader. We worked to problem solve and to learn how sometimes a few heads can be better than one. One way in which we learned this was through our policy making section of the class. We got to learn about how lawmakers make policies and discuss some of the upcoming bills that were being worked on. We then learned how as nurses and nursing students we can play our part by talking to our representatives. We worked in teams to create a policy brief and we sent it to our senators to fight for what we felt was right. We learned that as nurses we not only are leaders and advocates inside the hospital, but one outside as well. The walls of the hospital do not define us.
Another example in where we got to further learn about leadership was within the hospital walls. We worked in teams to discuss a safety issue that we had come across during out clinicals and we discussed how nurses and leaders within the hospital could fight to combat this safety issue. My team under my lead chose to talk about medication errors and how the use of AI can help to keep our patients safe. Through this process we discussed all aspects of how this change could come about. We discussed who would appose the change, how we could educate people about the change to win more people onto our side, how we would educate and train the staff on the new systems, and how leadership within the hospital could help make the transition smooth for both the employees and the patients.
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