Daley Scott |
At the beginning of this class, I told you the following: “You are a leader. What difference will you make?” As our semester comes to an end, I want you to revisit this question. Consider what you are passionate about and what change you want to see in the world (a student organization, on campus, in the community, in your professional field). Describe what difference you want to make as a leader and the initial steps you will take to get started. What challenges and obstacles do you anticipate in your quest to make the impact you desire?
During the remainder of my college experience, I have so many opportunities to change things and be a leader; however, what I am truly passionate about is my future career, nursing. I am not exactly sure what kind of nurse I want to be right now because it changes about every week when I learn something new and exciting, but any type of nursing I decide to get into will require me to advocate for my patient. Advocating is definitely a type of leadership that I can show in my professional field. Advocating requires you to really listen to your patient’s wants and needs, be included in their care plan decision making, and fight for your patient when needed. As a leader, I am a very good listener and can advocate for my patient when talking to other healthcare professionals. Oftentimes patients feel like they are not heard, but that is something that I can change as a nurse and as a leader. I know advocating for my patient will be hard at first because I will be a new nurse will little experience to fall back on, but I will need to just keep listening to my patient and expressing to other healthcare professionals about what they want. I know from experience that the doctors do not spend as much time with their patients as the nurses do, so they do not know exactly what the patient needs. When my dad was in the hospital, his nurse advocated for him to come off the ventilator a day earlier than the doctors wanted because she told them that he was ready. She was correct because my dad ended up coming of the ventilator that day because of her and was fine. I know that this will not always be easy, but this is important for me to do as a leader in the nursing profession.
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During class on November 2, you completed the Leadership Reputation worksheet. As a next step, ask 3 friends/family members to complete the "others think I am" column of the worksheet. Then, have a discussion with the person providing you with feedback. Only one of the 3 people may be a family member. Once you receive feedback from 3 people, compare the “I think I am” with the “others think I am” columns you completed in class to the feedback you received from others. Reflect on the process of evaluating yourself and receiving feedback from others. How did this process make you feel? How did you make sense of the feedback you received? What feedback was consistent from all three people? What feedback was inconsistent? What did you learn about yourself as a result of this activity?
I really enjoyed answering this worksheet because it really made me reflect on myself as a person and a leader. I decided that the three people I should ask to also fill out the workout about my leadership reputation are my mom, one of my friends that I have known for a long time, and a girl that I have worked with in my sorority. I figured this was a good variety of people that I know would give me honest feedback. After analyzing the worksheet, I found that I was a lot tougher on myself than my friends and my mother. They all agreed on some very kind aspects that they saw in me that I did not see in myself. I would say that this is fairly consistent with my actual life; I am always my toughest critic when it comes to everything I do because I know that I can always do better. However, my mom, two friends, and I all agreed on 38 adjectives to describe my leadership reputation. Some of these adjectives were goal oriented, disciplined, trustworthy, appreciative, responsible, and giving. All of these 38 adjectives were positive leadership reputation adjectives. My mom and two friends all agreed on 10 adjectives to describe me that I did not think described my leadership reputation. Some of these adjectives were sensitive to others needs, admits when wrong, and always willing to learn. All of these adjectives were positive as well. The only adjectives that were slightly negative not all of us agreed upon. Sometimes I was harsher on myself than others saw me, and occasionally my friends and my mom saw sides of me that did not necessarily notice the first time I filled out the worksheet. After completing this activity, I noticed that other people agreed with most of the things that I found about myself. I also realized that I am too tough on myself sometimes and need to realize the positive things about my leadership reputation. I also liked getting some constructive feedback on the negative aspects of my leadership reputation because I can always work to improve. |
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