Reflection of course Leadership and Management 1

Assignment

Reflection of course Leadership and Management

Submitted by

Saira Aslam (70110156)

Master of Sciences in Nursing

Subject: Leadership and Management in Nursing Practice (NUR 60202)

Subject Faculty: Mam Hajra Sarwer

Lahore School of Nursing

Faculty of Allied Health Sciences

THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE

Acknowledgement

The achievement and consequence of this assignment required a lot of guidance and

supervision from my respected teacher and I am tremendously blessed to have all along with the

accomplishment of this task. I am thankful to respected Mam Hajra Sarwer for giving me an

opportunity to do this assignment and by the support and direction of respected Mam Hajra

Sarwer I am able to submit my assignment on the due date. Lastly, thank you for being such a

supportive teacher.I will always remember you with the deepest respect and affection for your

efforts in making each lecture pleasant and informative. Your enlightening lessons provided me a

sense of purpose in life. Thank you for being the most excellent instructor a student could have.

Regards:

Saira Aslam(70110156)

Msn 2nd Semester

Reflection of course Leadership and Management

Leadership is a research-based as well as a practical skill that encompasses an

individual's, group's, or organization's ability to "lead," influence, or direct other people, teams,

or organisations.Being a student of MSN year l semester ll I observed that effective leadership

and management is essential to develop an organization private as well as government. In

education institutions students will have an opportunity to integrate the frames, utilize major

organizational theories, and concepts to improve effective leadership practice within the larger

health care system. The role and impact of nurse leaders in health care organizations directly

impact on quality care of patients. Leadership and Management course in educational institutions

polish students to become effective leaders in future and develop leadership skills like decision

making, effective communication, confidence, responsibility, delegation etc.

The important qualities of healthcare companies that flourish in exhibiting sound

business practices and maintaining healthy and happy organizational environments include

strong and effective nursing leadership built on the concepts of trust, respect, and fairness,

according to your context. (Bobbio, Bellan, & Manganelli, 2012). According to Lee, Coustasse,

& Sikula (2011), all nursing healthcare environments are influenced not just by organisational

variables but also by personal elements, leadership is vital in the nursing industry. (Gocsik &

Barton, 2014). More importantly, the fundamentals of nursing leadership encourages those who

are in the nursing profession not only to become more engaged and competent in performing

their basic healthcare functions, but also to provide exemplary and quality care while thinking

independently and critically within their healthcare settings(Sellgren, Ekvall, & Tomson, 2008).

Prior to the semester beginning I was thinking about the leadership and management

course I was mentally pre occupied with the thoughts that this course will help only the senior
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students who are doing the role of managers having many years of clinical experience. For the

junior students like me, it will not benefit more. Further I was thinking that this course will focus

more on theoretical aspects of nursing leadership and bookish knowledge rather than the

practical aspects. I was thinking that a lot of study will be required as the class participation is

more weightage than other courses therefore it will be difficult to share my points in short time

as everyone will try to take more time in their turn to gain more score. Thinking about the project

assignment I thought that it will be difficult to manage and will be boring because of all subjects

burden and time shortage. I was also thinking that the course will be like other traditional

subjects in which the teacher will delivering the lecture and students will listening to the teacher

and participate only in the question answer session. I was thinking that teaching methodology

will not be interesting but on the first day when the course faculty shared and explained the

course grid in the introductory class I felt that it will be more interesting. On first project

assignment I took little participation I read more the book of leadership and management rather

than the question related to the scenario, but my instructor suggested me focus on your concern

scenario with the help of different books and clinical based study. In the second time I read the

questions thoroughly and prepared myself accordingly and participate more. The faculty was

doing ongoing student participation evaluation on the spot marking the points share by the

student. The good thing in the problem base learning PBL was that students are involved in

different strategies rather than just books study .Due to this strategy repetition of points was

avoided. All the participants were sharing their real experiences according to their project which

made every session very interactive and more interesting.

On the other hand Position paper assignment was very informative and new strategy.

Every student has select unique practical scenario and was much relevant to the clinical or
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educational career having implications to professional or organizational aspects. It was

interesting that everyone was discussing the nature of the issue differently from the other student

based on their understanding. Similarly everyone was describing the role of the key players

differently, strategy increased the learning of how to do root cause analysis of the situation in

various scenario.

According to my evaluation this course was very informative, helpful and mind

broadening. It help me a lot while analyzing different situations. I realized that leadership and

management course is important for each and every student wither on high post or lower having

experience of few or many years. This course enable me how to analyze and evaluate the

concepts (ethical dilemmas, attitude problem, negligence, malpractice, incompetence, etc) were

somewhat the same in each PBL but the experience and the solutions of the issues were different.

This triggered my brain to think differently and uniquely, other than the routine. Different

leadership styles and managerial skills, which was somewhere lost, were re-emerged in my mind

while discussing each case.

After attending this course, I analyze that leadership is not only to lead but a leader is

who facilitates their subordinates, and can manage them according to their strengths. This also

shows the good leadership and management qualities of the teacher that should be acquired by

the students. The time and content management are done by the faculty were excellent, as all the

PBL’s was completed within the expected time-framed and no case was similar to the other one.

Madam facilitated me very well in the selection of cases, as I discussed she facilitated me very

well to select the case with different problems, so the student can learn more. While running my

PBL, madam also facilitated me when I was distracting. I felt that it was quite an interesting and

good experience to run a PBL in a new way.

The evaluation method was also very unique. Detailed feedback was given to every

individual. So I could able to know my strength and weaknesses. So I can improve myself. The

strategy of peer evaluation was also unique and good. I never experienced it. I think this strategy

can polish the teaching skills that we should keep the focus on every student while standing in

front of them. For me as a clinician, not a teacher, it was quite difficult to keep the focus on

everyone and keep remember that how was everyone in the class while discussing with the

madam in the feedback session.

Recommendations:

Overall, the course was beyond my expectations. I refreshed my concepts

of leadership and management. This course taught me that how I can make decisions and solves

issues in the future. If I will face similar problems in the future then I can reflect on this course

and can implement all the concepts. This course also taught me that everybody is a leader and

has some leadership qualities but the problem is that we do not know when and where we have to

use them. I also learned that we can influence other's wrong decisions by therapeutic

communication skills and our behavior can play a vital role while influencing other’s decisions,

as well as we can reflect on our own decisions.

References:

Bobbio, A., Bellan, M., & Manganelli, A. (2012). Empowering leadership, perceived

organizational support, trust, and job burnout for nurses: A study in an Italian general hospital.

Health Care Manage Rev, 37 (1), 77-87

Lee, D., Coustasse, A., & Sikula, A. (2011). Transformational leadership and workplace

injury and absenteeism: Analysis of a National Nursing and Assistant Survey. Health Care

Manage Rev, 36 (4), 380-387.

Gocsik, T., & Barton, A. (2014). Why Clinical Change Leadership Is Essential. Clinical

Nurse Specialist, 83-85.

Sellgren, S., Ekvall, G., & Tomson, G. (2008). Leadership behavior of nurse managers in

relation to job satisfaction and work climate. Journal of Nursing Management, 16, 578- 587.