American Organization for Nursing Leadership

This assignment comes in 2 sections.

Part 1: Leader vs Manager

Based on your reading and personal experience, share your perception of 3 attributes of a leader and 3 attributes of a manager. Based on your experience, have your direct supervisors been leaders, manager or both? Provide examples to support your assessment.

Submission Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources

Part 2

To assess own leadership skills:

Content Requirements:

1. Analysis of leadership’s skills using Foundation of Nursing Leadership – What is your leadership style (Links to an external site.) the results of the quiz in this link is attached as a word document, use it as a guide for leadership style
2. Identification of strengths and opportunities for improvement based on self-assessment.
3. Action plan to address self-assessment capitalizing on strengths and addressing opportunities for improvement.

Submission Instructions:

• The paper is to be clear and concise, and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
• The paper is to be 2 – 3 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
• Incorporate a minimum of 2 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
• Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).
• Your paper should be formatted per current APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions)

Material to be used:

Read

• Yoder-Wise, P. S. (2015). Leading and Managing in Nursing (6th ed.). Mosby, an imprint of Elsevier.
  • Chapters 1 – 4, 10, & 28 – 29
• Aonl.org. (2021). AONL nurse leader competencies. Nurse Leaders | AONL. https://www.aonl.org/resources/nurse-leader-competencies
• American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).
  • Use as a guide for writing in current APA format.

Watch

• The Role of the Nurse Manager (10:14)
  AHRQ Patient Safety. (2015, April 29). CUSP: The Role of the Nurse Manager [Video file]. CUSP: The Role of the Nurse Manager (Links to an external site.)

Online Materials & Resources

• To access the following article please register on Medscape (Links to an external site.). Registration is free of charge.
  Sherman, R. O. (2012). What followers want in their nurse leaders? American Nurse Today, 7(9). https://profreg.medscape.com/px/registration_ab.do…

• Nurse Leaders (Links to an external site.)
  American Organization for Nursing Leadership. (2021). Nurse leaders. https://www.aonl.org/
• Visit the CINAHL Complete under the A-to-Z Databases on the University Library’s website and locate/read the articles below:
  • McSherry, R. (2012). The pivotal role of nurse managers, leaders and educators in enabling excellence in nursing care. Journal of Nursing Management, 20(1), 7-19.
  • Young, J. (2015). Leading nursing into the future: Development of a strategic nursing platform on a system level. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 39(3), 239-246.
  • Thomas-Hawkins, C., Flynn, L., Lindgren, T. G., & Weaver, S. (2015). Nurse manager safety practices in outpatient hemodialysis units. Journal of Nephrology Nursing, 42(2), 125-133, 134, 147. 2.
  • Bjarnasom, D., & LaSala, C. A. (2011). Moral leadership. Journal of Radiology Nursing, 30(1), 18-24.
  • Allen, D. (2016). The importance, challenges and prospects of taking work practices into account for health care quality improvement: Nursing work and patient status at a glance. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 30(4), 99-108.