Assignment: NRS 440 CLC – Leadership Styles and Nursing
NRS440 Trends & issues in Today’s Health Care
Week 5 Assignment
This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.
The purpose of this assignment is to assess a nursing professional’s leadership styles, qualities, and practices; to emphasize the importance of strong inter-professional communication for nursing leaders; and to research the usage of servant leadership in nursing practice.
Read the leadership study resources and take the topic tests to better understand your leadership skills.
After you’ve finished, go over what you’ve learned about your own leadership attributes with your group so you can see how you differ from and are similar to your peers in terms of leadership.
Examine the servant leadership study materials as a group. Make a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes that incorporates the concepts of servant leadership as well as the characteristics and actions of outstanding leaders that you have learned. At the end of your presentation, include a final slide for references.
Include the following in your presentation:
Each group member: Create a slide that summarizes your leadership style, traits, and practices.
Compare the personal leadership styles of your group members, including commonalities between group members’ strengths and weaknesses.
Give an explanation as to why it is essential for nursing professionals to have a firm grasp of their individual leadership qualities, behaviors, and routines.
Have a conversation on the qualities and styles of leadership that are essential for good communication. Explain why it’s important for leaders to adjust their communication strategies when they’re working with people from different professions (across ancillary departments, vendors, community members).
Discuss the ways in which nursing professionals can benefit from using the ideas of servant leadership in order to give others more power and influence while they are in a position of leadership.
Discuss the ways in which leaders who follow and who have a solid grasp of the personal leadership attributes that make them effective at leading others and navigating the specific problems that are inherent to the nursing and health care professions. Give two illustrations that help to highlight your primary points.
You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.
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Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
Assessment Description
This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.
The goal of this assignment is to evaluate your leadership styles, traits, and practices as a nursing professional, to emphasize the importance of effective interprofessional communication as a nursing leader, and to investigate the role of servant leadership in nursing practice.
To better understand your leadership qualities, read the leadership study materials and complete the topic quiz activities.
After finishing, summarize and share with your group what you learned about your specific leadership qualities so you can become acquainted with how you are similar and different from your peers when it comes to being a leader.
Examine the study materials on servant leadership as a group. Create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes based on what you’ve learned about the tenets of servant leadership and the traits and practices of successful leaders. At the end of your presentation, include an additional slide for references.
Include the following in your presentation:
- Each group member: Create a slide that summarizes your leadership style, traits, and practices.
- Compare the personal leadership styles of your group members, including commonalities between group members’ strengths and weaknesses.
- Explain why it is important for nursing professionals to be aware of their personal leadership style, traits, and practices.
- Discuss what leadership traits and styles are necessary to be an effective communicator. Explain the importance of leaders adapting communication approaches when working interprofessionally (across ancillary departments, vendors, community members).
- Discuss how nursing professionals can benefit from integrating the tenets of servant leadership to empower and influence others as they lead.
- Discuss how leaders who practice servant leadership and have a strong understanding of their personal leadership traits can successfully lead others and navigate the unique challenges that are part of nursing and health care. Provide two examples that illustrate your main ideas.
You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.
Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
– Rubric
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Individual Group Slides
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Comparison of Leadership Styles
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Importance of Awareness of Leadership Styles, Traits, and Practices for Nursing Professionals
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Leadership Traits and Styles of Effective Communicators and Adapting Communication Approaches When Working Interprofessionally
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Benefits of Integrating Tenets of Servant Leadership to Empower and Influence
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The Understanding of Personal Leadership Traits and Servant Leadership in Leading and Navigating Challenges in Nursing and Health Care
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Presentation of Content
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Layout
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Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.)
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Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)
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Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style)
APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
☐ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ Topic is well defined.
☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.