Analyze your leadership development (Reflective Analysis Essay)
Topic: Reflective Analysis of Leadership Experience
This essay is a critical analysis of one significant experience and/or challenge that demonstrates leadership skills. This should be a clinically-based specific incident or situation that typically focuses on something that did not go as intended.
As part of this analysis, you must examine how the experience made you feel and how you have grown and developed leadership skills as a result of the experience. It should be honest and include details to support the leadership skills you are discussing in your paper.
Throughout this paper, you need to clearly support your analysis, thoughts, and ideas with references from the literature. A good critical analysis essay should help you to understand yourself and/or the experience as you compare it to the leadership theory discussed in class or the literature.
Analyze your leadership development (Reflective Analysis Essay)
**Length: 5 pages maximum
- 12 font, Times New Roman, double spaced, excluding reference list and title page.
- Must be submitted to Safe Assign
Topic: Reflective Analysis of Leadership Experience
This essay is a critical analysis of one significant experience and/or challenge that demonstrates leadership skills. This should be a clinically-based specific incident or situation that typically focuses on something that did not go as intended.
As part of this analysis, you must examine how the experience made you feel and how you have grown and developed leadership skills as a result of the experience. It should be honest and include details to support the leadership skills you are discussing in your paper.
Throughout this paper, you need to clearly support your analysis, thoughts, and ideas with references from the literature. A good critical analysis essay should help you to understand yourself and/or the experience as you compare it to the leadership theory discussed in class or the literature.
Theoretical references may come from the literature related to:
1.CNO Entry to Practice Competencies (ETPC’s), Guidelines and professional standards*
- Duty to report
- Scope of practice of nurses and other team members
- Relationships
- Leadership
- Advocacy
2.Leadership theory
3.Decision-making
4.Critical thinking
5.Power
6.Interprofessional teams
7.Conflict management
8.Change management theory
9.Other relevant course topics
A minimum of four (4) different reference resources and eight in-text citations are required and must be drawn from peer-reviewed journal readings and course resources.
Your analysis must clearly connect to the relevant CNO ETPC’s, guidelines and/or professional standards and expectations. Citations from the CNO are required but are in addition to the citations/references required above. You should identify where and how you have met/not met the ETPC’s, guidelines, and standards related to the situation.
Paper must be written in the first person.
Below you will find some questions to consider as you reflect on and analyze one significant experience and/or challenge.
- Examine and analyze the experience and/or challenge. How did this experience impact, shape and change you? How have you evolved and developed from the experience?
- What were the leadership characteristics or qualities you witnessed and/or experienced? Why were they important?
- Expand on why these characteristics and qualities are required by nurse leaders and nursing leadership roles.
- Clearly connect this discussion to relevant CNO ETPC’s, guidelines and/or professional standards.
- Draw from the topics and theory discussed in class. Think about the reading and theory reviewed—Did the experience make you think any differently about your role as a nurse and the role as a leader?
- What is your understanding of the leadership theory? Can you apply these concepts to the specific event you experienced or witnessed?
- What actions and strategies will you implement to ensure you remain a competent practicing nurse and demonstrate leadership in nursing practice? What are some of the strategies you may use in the future if you were to encounter a similar experience and/or challenge?
- What are the leadership skills you need to work on and develop? How will you develop your leadership skills and qualities that you will need for your future nursing practice?
*Please proofread and carefully edit your paper, and follow APA format. See the rubric for a detailed grading scheme. Papers that are NOT submitted to SafeAssign will not be marked.
Rubric
Reflective Analysis of Leadership Experience Paper: Rubric
This presentation supports CNO ETP: 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 4.4, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, 6.11.
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Criteria |
Focus |
Marks |
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Content and Ideas 40 marks |
1. Introduce and explore on one specific clinical experience/challenge. (5) 2. Describe the how the experience has influenced your growth and development as nursing leader. (5) 3. Reflect, analyze and explore professional, social, cultural, personal and environmental factors influencing the leadership and or leaders. Explain how and/or why they impacted why and how they may have impacted the experience/challenge. (5) 4. Consider and utilize leadership concepts/theories and apply them to support the analysis of the experience/challenge. (Conflict management, decision making, professionalism, accountability etc). (10) 5. Integrate assessment of the situation using relevant CNO guidelines, standards and ETPCs. (5) 5. Describe your leadership (style and skills). Include your strengths and the areas that require further development. Answering the questions: What makes you a leader? What are the qualities and characteristics that you value in leaders? (5) 6. Describe your thoughts/concerns about your next steps in becoming a leader. (Consider consolidation, orientation and working with preceptors, future education and development of your nursing career). (5) |
/40 |
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Research 15 marks |
1. Research demonstrates a clear connection and supports ideas presented in your essay. (5) 2. Research demonstrates the basis for analysis and reflects a variety of perspectives found in the literature (5) 3. Minimum 4 relevant references from a variety of current sources (include 2 recent evidence-based nursing journal articles) (4) 4. Topic extensively researched and supported with minimum of 8 in-text citations, (2) |
/15 |
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Organization 12 marks |
· Topic and purpose of paper clearly stated and identified in the introduction paragraph. Thesis statement, (2) · Conclusion provides a brief summary of the key points discussed in the essay (2) · Introduction and conclusion are related to the body of the essay (2) · Paragraphs flow and transition easily into the next; paragraphs contain one idea or concept that is appropriately developed and supported with literature/theory (2) · Reader easily follows the flow of concepts and ideas presented in the essay (4) |
/12 |
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APA format 8 marks
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· Accurate title page and reference list (2) · Accurate citations in paper (2) · Correct font size, style and spacing. (2) · Only papers with no grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors are eligible for full marks (2) |
/8 |
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Comments |
/75 |