NR 582NP Week 2 Assignment; Leadership Self Assessment Paper; 2-4 pages excluding title page and references....

2 Leadership and Role Development for Advanced Nursing Nursing is a career path that provides a wide range of opportunities. Bedside nursing, executive nursing, and nursing leadership are a few career goals that can explored. From experience, nursing leadership has been the most rewarding. As a nurse leader, you are provided with the opportunity to initiate change, implement innovation, and help grow new nurses. With the current nursing shortage, nurse leaders must be ever-present to keep the nursing profession afloat. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the qualities of a master's prepared nurse as well as share some personal leadership experiences. Leadership styles and competencies will be discussed as they will provide examples of what it takes to be a leader. As I embark on this journey of becoming a master's prepared nurse leader, I will be able to identify some strengths and weaknesses that will help me grow in the future. Personal Leadership Experience My initial goal in nursing was to be a pediatric nurse. I did achieve that goal as I was provided the opportunity to work in pediatrics for three years. While I enjoyed this role I began to feel like I had more to offer in my profession. I began to seek new opportunities and landed a role as an infusion nurse where I soon became a preceptor for new nurses and then promoted to a nurse supervisor. I found that being a leader provided a level of strength and critical thinking I didn’t know I had in me. As a leader, I lead my team the way I would like to be led. I provided my team with open communication, honesty, transparency, constructive but positive feedback, motivation, and most importantly active listening. My leadership style was effective because I never treated my team like they were beneath me just because I was a supervisor. I included my team in all decisions. I believe my leadership style provided great comfort within my team which allowed us to work well as a team. In all 4 can be. I knew that I wanted to teach and help build the next generation of nurses so I received my master’s in nursing education. While that goal was achieved, I still felt like I had more to give and more room to grow in my career, so I am now earning my certification as a family nurse practitioner. I cannot feed into other nurses if I do not give my full potential to myself and continue to gain more knowledge. Another key point is learning from failures. As I have grown in my career I have had moments where I can improve and those moments help share experiences to help others grow and learn from my mistakes. Strength Competency Two - Communication and Relationship management Effective communication is an underutilized tool. Most situations can be resolved with active listening and communication. As I leader, I have had the opportunity to work with diverse communication styles. Some