Leadership and the Graduate Nursing Role
Discuss the attributes of leadership that may be needed for graduate level nurses. The graduate nurse evidences leadership as seen in the four domains: the profession of nursing, clinical practice arena, health policy arena, and systems level. In order to complete this assignment, a short quiz about your leadership style may be useful.
My leadership style is participative
• Report the findings from the quiz – what kind of leader were you? How does this fit into your beliefs about your leadership style?
• Discuss the attributes of leadership that may be needed for graduate level nurses.
• Discuss the personal leadership attributes you feel you have that will help you in your graduate nursing role. Also, discuss those attributes that you feel you may need to develop in your graduate nursing role.
• Finish with a quote from a library article related to leadership in nursing or in an advanced role in nursing. Look in some of the known leadership journals like The Journal of Nursing Scholarship or Nursing Leadership Forum [found in the ProQuest search engine] or the American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Nursing Administration, Nursing Administration Quarterly, Nursing Management or Health Care Management Review [found in the OVID search engine] or any article pertaining to leadership that you feel is appropriate to your paper.
