Cleveland Clinic Rotations

Observing and analyzing my leader opened my eyes to the amount of responsibility and knowledge one needs to be a great leader. These responsibilities that were witnessed during the shadowing project included aspects of role modeling, mentoring and educating fellow staff and colleagues alike. My leader possessed a well-rounded amount of experience, skills and knowledge about nursing and her management role. All of these aspects we observed and I feel my leader is not only strong nurse, manger and mentor; all these aspects contribute to making her a fine and valuable assets to our organization.

This clinical rotation differs from my previous OB rotation last semester. I did my OB rotation at St. Anthony Hospital and compared to it, OU Children’s Hospital is different. At St. Anthony, we don’t have much opportunity to see the birth of a baby, but here at the OU Children Hospital, the first thing I walked in is either in the middle of labor or that a labor is about to happen. This may due to the month. I assume that there are more babies born in June than in May. On my first day, my preceptor and I took care of a patient with hematoma as a result from giving birth. This patient lost more than 500cc of blood. We massaged her fundus and straight cath her. Finally, we insert a Foley catheter. At once point, when the midwife checked her and massaged the patient’s fundus, a tennis ball size blood clot flew out of her vagina. I was surprised and amazed. She massaged it again and more blood clots shot out, almost missed the end of the bed and flew to the floor. From this experience, I learned not to stand at the bottom of the bed when someone is giving someone a fundus massage. This is an interesting sight and I would never expect to see something like this to happen.

Leadership is encountered in every occupation and in everyday life. In nursing, leadership is not only prevalent; it is crucial to patient care and employee satisfaction. The nurse leader that was interviewed was a nurse at the Newport Hospital in Newport, Washington. This is a small hospital in a rural community. She is a charge nurse in the acute care unit, as well as in charge of leading infection control in the hospital. With these roles comes a lot of responsibility, and tasks that must be completed in a timely manner to create a workflow for the rest of the staff. There is a lot of juggling and balancing everything that is included in all of those positions.

Leadership is critical to any organization such as Long-term Care, VA Hospitals, and Community/Public Health Systems. Without the importance of leadership,

My experience and skills are surpassed only by my enthusiasm to effectively meet the challenges before me. I am a highly capable, motivated, and energetic individual that enjoys working with others towards successful solutions. My leadership style incorporates motivation through positive feedback and support plus straightforwardness and open communication that builds trust and loyalty among my peers and patients alike. Throughout my personal experiences, education, and athletic career I have honed the ability to be a leader in times where others look for leadership. Leadership is not given; a confident, competent, and motivated individual takes leadership of a situation.

The work history that has provided me with a base of knowledge or experience with this leadership competency includes six months of working in a pediatric medical and counseling practice in the main role of office manager. Because this was a new practice I wore many different hats throughout the day along with being the Office Manager I also filled in as a Pediatric Medical Assistant, Secretary and Janitor. Working in all these positions allowed me to learn the responsibilities involved with these jobs. I saw to both clerical and clinical duties including, billing, insurance, collecting lab samples, recorded vital signs, maintained exam rooms, kept up-to-date records of narcotic samples, and kept temperature records necessary to maintain viability of vaccines. I also needed to know and understand the basics of insurance practices, know the list of covered and not covered medical and counseling procedures, as well as know and understand the HIPPA laws, maintain patient medical files and keep them private, and

We had to set an example for our peers around us and for the students that were younger than us. Leadership was taught to me by my teachers and my parents. They set the standard that I will always try to reach. Being like them will always be a goal of mine. My high school offers a leadership class that I decided to take during my senior year. Learning more about being a positive and reliable leader was something I knew would be beneficial to me before going out into the real world. Leadership class was full of the best leaders that our school has, and people who wanted to learn more about the traits that make someone a leader. From week to week, I was taught the value of being a leader and the significance of possessing those traits. Leadership class turned out to be a very positive experience, and it gave me many of the skills and traits that I will continue to carry with

I have scheduled an interview and time to observe a nurse leader with the Director of Nursing (DON) for the Virginian Nursing and Rehab facility in Fairfax, Virginia for Thursday October 2, 2014 at 7:30am. I plan on spending a full eight-hour shift with the nurse leader observing the following three leadership activities: 1) Observing her making rounds on the units 2) Observing and or participating in a nursing leadership meeting and 3) Observing the facility’s interdisciplinary team meeting.

A transformational leadership style along with good communication skills can be used to manage the multiples issues Hartland Memorial faces. “Transformational leadership involves anticipating future trends, inspiring followers to understand and embrace a new vision of possibilities, developing others to be leaders, and reward learners” (Hellriegal & Slocum, 2009, p. 301). Elizabeth and her associates should have the necessary qualities of a transformational leader; integrity, accountability, and motivation, so the staff can identify with them. The nurse manager could give nurses opportunities to demonstrate and experience leadership in their profession on a regular basis. Effective leadership is critical in delivering high quality care; equally

On a more personal level, the Leadership Program has taught me the value of time management, organization, and confidence. Each of these characteristics was developed through the personal service project that I designed. My personal project was focused on my area of interest, dietetics. I chose to work with pediatric obesity patients at the University Children's Hospital. Lori Hardford, a local dietician, and myself will be holding a five week seminar with these children. During these five weeks we will work to teach the children the importance of good nutrition through hands on activities. The main emphasis will be to teach the obese children the four food groups, balanced meals, portion sizes, and healthy snack options. Then during the fifth week, the group will meet to play a game (similar to trivial pursuit) that reflects on what they have learned the previous four sessions. By planning my individual project, time management was essential. I had to balance my class load with planning the project and meeting with Lori Hardford. It was very difficult to find time when both Lori and I were available to talk.

In retrospect, what I learned in collaborative healthcare will be a solid foundation on which I will build my nursing leadership. To render care to the sick irrespective of their values, preferences, age, socioeconomic status, culture respect and dignity, demonstrate that the nurse leader is exhibiting compassion, ethics and knowledge. These aquacades must be continuously incorporated and utilized with professional clinical judgement and evidenced-based knowledge to yield the best patient outcomes (Finkelman, 2012).

The theory I utilize most when considering social problems, such as domestic violence are strengths and systems theory. Systems theory is a go to theory for me as I feel a large part of our decisions and experiences is impacted by the systems in our lives. For example, a domestic violence survivor may have witnessed domestic violence in her childhood and may feel that it is acceptable for a spouse or partner to physically abuse, name-call, and do all of the decision making. They may also have grown up in a household where their mother did not work and took care of the household with little input in to household decisions and no access to household funds.

In the past few months of the presidential race, Donald Trump has been at the top of the Republican leaderboard. His overall triumph in the race currently is mainly due to his abundance of media coverage. Due to his media coverage, his campaign has been able to convey its message all across the Internet. This has given him a positive effect in his candidacy. There are many who find this to be controversial as it givens him an advantage over the other candidates. There are also those who find this to be the cause of his reign in the presidential race.

Furthermore, a team leader is someone who inspires, mentors, guides, thrives for change and sets an example. Throughout Faye’s life she demonstrated strong team leadership styles such as her remarkable courage and determination for pursuing her vision. The courageous risks she took in her leadership roles were all in an effort to bring about change in nursing and improve patient care throughout the world. For example, during a visit to the San Diego long-term care facility Faye noticed statutory violations and other evidence of substandard care. During her opening of the conference of the American Health Care Association, she announced to them that the lack of patient care was unacceptable in the homes

It is hard to quantify what I have learned in the semester of Leadership because the courses focus was not about memorizing data, but rather learning about having the will to lead and finding the courage to make it happen. A majority of the information I learned from this course came from learning about myself. Through readings, course activities, and various projects, I learned what makes a great leader, but more importantly what traits I possess that will make me a great leader. In order to be a great leader, one must have an understanding of what leadership is. Leadership is a social influence (Stogdill, p. 25). It means leaving a mark. It is initiating and guiding, and the result is change. Leading is the result of your passion coming to life.