Leadership

Purpose: Students will reflect on the various leadership concepts and principles addressed over the semester. Students will consider their leadership growth, assess their leadership strengths and weaknesses, and reflect on their personal leadership philosophy. This assignment assesses the following course student learning outcomes: Analyze principles of practice management, including conceptual and practical strategies for balancing productivity with quality of care to meet health care needs of patient populations with whom they practice. (DNP SLO #3) Evaluate self in becoming proficient in directing quality improvement strategies and in creating and sustaining changes at the organizational and policy levels. (DNP SLO #6) Criteria: Provide an overview of your perceptions about your leadership skills/characteristics at the beginning of the semester. What was your leadership style? How comfortable were you with being a leader? Discuss your current professional leadership strengths and weaknesses. Describe lessons learned so far about leadership. What lessons learned have been key for you? Has your perception of your leadership style changed since the beginning of the semester? Explain. What is your current leadership style? Discuss two (2) specific leadership skills you would like to work on in the future. Provide rationale for each Discuss professional activities that could assist you with developing these skills. Summarize the main premise of your paper (no new information should be presented) Your paper should proceed in a logical manner and reflect nursing scholarship including appropriate grammar and graduate level writing. Students are strongly encouraged to use a grammar check or program such as Grammarly. Please review the Grading Rubric to ensure you have included all required elements. Your paper should be in APA format and 3-6 pages not including title page and references. You do not need to include an abstract or table of contents. Use APA Manual (7th Edition) students should not rely on APA software or templates as faculty will refer to the APA Manual when grading. Include a minimum of 6 references in addition to your textbooks. In other words, if you cite your text book(s), you must cite 6 additional references. Submit paper by the due date and time – 5 points/day (including weekends) will be deducted from late papers. Paper must include the following: Include title sheet Do not include abstract Include appropriate headings and level of headings Include reference list