In this course, we have explored various models, styles, and theories of leadership; the ubiquity of change and the leader’s role in managing change; the importance of context; our own strengths and weaknesses; the use of ethics and values to guide leadership decisions, the crucial role of strategic planning in quality leadership, and common nursing theory upon which practice is based. This final assignment asks you to bring this learning together to describe how you can lead in your own organization. Please address the following in a formal APA styled paper.    

  • Describe the organizational context in which you work, your current role in that organization, and a capacity in which you feel you could be an effective leader. If you are interested in a formal (or different) leadership role, promote yourself (!) and describe your new job. Inform this contextual analysis with a SWOT analysis of the institution. Remember: An organization’s context includes its culture. 
  • Describe at least one nursing theory that might suitably inform your practice in this organization. 
  • Describe the leadership approaches, models, and theories you will employ as a leader. Will these be conscious choices based on your assessment of the context, or do you think they are simply suitable matches for you? How and why do you think these approaches will benefit/challenge your leadership practice? Include at least one general style and at least one proper theory in this description. Include three total approaches/theories. 
  • Analyze your own strengths and weaknesses and consider how they might affect your leadership choices and experiences. What strengths will you most rely on? Which weaknesses must you attend to most closely? How will you crutch and then develop those weaknesses? What opportunities might you seize upon, and how will you mitigate threats to yourself and to the organization?
  • How you will promote change as a leader in this context? What models or theories of change seem most useful under the circumstances (you, the organization, and its local/national/global context)? What will you change? What strategic plans might you pursue and how could you go about about bringing them to fruition?  
  • What values will you emphasize in your leadership? Remember: You cannot value everything - something has to give. You’ll have to make choices in terms of what your essential values are in this position.) Tip: Consider the values you wish to emphasize in light of your strategic planning – this will help to narrow down your foci.   

This assignment is purposefully left rather open-ended so that you may show me what you’ve learned in this class and describe how to operationalize your learning in your professional context. Feel free to use anything you’ve learned in (or during) this class, or to bring in outside sources as desired. Engage with your learning set. Submit a draft to your peers, discuss your ideas, and let them help you. This will invariably result in a higher quality final paper. The final paper should include 1200-1500 words of text, so please be concise. As always, neither title or reference pages nor appendices should be counted in this total, but all of these should be included in any formal APA styled paper, which you must assume all papers in this program will be.

Note: You should recognize these questions and topics! We have been discussing them throughout class. This final is intended to help you bring everything together; it is very appropriate to draw on earlier assignments and/or discussions to complete this final assignment. Feel free to use what you developed in previous assignments to build on for this final paper. 

Please submit this assignment by Dec 17th, 2021. (Formally, this is the last day of the class, however I might be able to accept this assignment up through Dec 19th without problem. I just need time to grade them before my grades are due to the registrar!)


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