For this assignment, you will revisit your Learning Discovery Plans that you completed in each module and reflect on your personal beliefs, and insights related to your personal/professional and nursing leadership/management development. This assignment accounts for 25% of your course grade and is limited to 4-5 pages (excluding title page and reference page). Address all criteria in the assignment found in the Module Notes and rubric. Personal awareness of ones leadership/management style is essential to successfully influence others to achieve quality outcomes for patients and support healthy work environments. Revisit your Learner Discovery Plan and reflect upon your personal beliefs and insights related to nursing leadership/management. Then, please provide the following: Most Transformative Lesson Using course concepts and terminology, describe the most transformative lesson you gained from this course.
Explain how you will apply this lesson to your current practice, providing at least two examples.
Give details on how you will determine if you successfully applied this lesson to your leadership/management practice.
Highly-Developed Leadership/Management Characteristic or Skill Using course concepts and terminology, describe a leadership/management characteristic or skill that you believe you have highly developed.
Provide two pieces of evidence of this characteristic/skill and/or examples of how you currently utilize this characteristic or skill when leading/managing teams.
To-Be-Developed Leadership/Management Characteristic or Skill Using course concepts and terminology, describe a leadership/management characteristic or skill that you believe you need to further develop.
Formulate a strategy for developing this characteristic or skill, and describe your strategy.
Explain how you will determine if you have significantly improved.
Leadership/Management Impact Illustrate how your leadership/management style currently influences or will influence the healthcare practice environment and people where you work.
Specify at least two ways in which you impact or will impact others (e.g., team/individual behavior or affect, organizational outcomes, patient outcomes) as leader.
Additional Expectations This assignment should be: 4-5 pages in length (excluding the title and reference page)
Must include 3 current (within the last five years), scholarly references that are integrated into the paper
In the form of a scholarly paper and written in APA format
Attached as a Word file (.doc or .docx file) below
Your work will be evaluated using the Reflective Activity Rubric [PDF File Size 280 KB]. Use this interactive APA Checklist [PDF File Size 1.74 MB] to enhance your knowledge of APA formatting guidelines and self-assessment skills. The checklist is interactive and will show you examples of each component of APA with a sample paper. You can check off each item in the list and save the file or just use the checklist as a reminder for yourself. This checklist will help you ensure that your paper meets the APA requirements. Submitting Your Paper to Turnitin You are required to submit your paper to Turnitin to avoid plagiarism and ensure there are no errors related to the proper citation of another author’s work. Instructions for submitting your paper can be found in the Graded Assignments and Rubrics module and also at www.turnitin.com. Allow yourself time to submit your paper, review the Originality Report, make any necessary corrections, and resubmit to Turnitin prior to submitting your paper through the course assignment submission area for grading. Late Assignment Policy: All assignments are expected to be submitted on time. Prior authorization from your instructor is required for late submissions. The first late submission is accepted up to 5 days late without penalty. A late penalty of five percent per day will be assessed when the first late assignment is submitted after the fifth day. Subsequent late submissions are assessed a late penalty of five percent per day (e.g., -5 points each day on a 100-point assignment, or -2.5 points each day on a 50-point assignment). Extenuating circumstances* are considered without penalty. No work will be accepted after the final day of the term unless an official course extension has been granted. *Some types of extenuating circumstances that will be considered are: a serious medical illness or injury to the student,
a death of an immediate family member,
a significant change in employment or military status that prevents the student from completing the assignment/assessment,
a significant trauma in the students life that impairs the students emotional and /or physical health,
technical issues that prevent student from completing the assignment/assessment by the designated due date/time.
Documentation may be asked for in extenuating circumstances at the discretion of your instructor. Compose your work using a word processor (or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you upload it. When you are ready to submit your work, click “Browse My Computer” and find your file. Once you have located your file, click “Open” and, if successful, the file name will appear under the Attached files heading. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Submit.”