As I grow in my nursing career, my professional development acquires maturity from my nursing experience and the knowledge that I am acquiring thus far from the academic setting. I aspire to become a Nurse Executive in the healthcare field. To this end, I have discovered that the Nurse Executive needs to possess important Nurse Executive Competencies in order to lead effectively:
1. Communication and relationship-building
Communication is a core quality conducive to a professional working environment. It is the glue that holds the relationship of leaders and followers together. Communication is being challenged in the workplace every day. And its negative impact leads to an atmosphere of hostility and defensiveness which greatly disturbs team building, care quality, and safety. The Nurse Leader must ensure that communication practices are professional and conducive to a healthy work environment.
2. Knowledge of the health care environment
The leader’s influence expands as widely as their ability to tap into their knowledge and clinical experience in order to understand their followers as well as to build a vision for the workplace. This knowledge includes health care policy, patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, and evidence-based practice (AONE, 2015).
3. Leadership skills
Receptiveness, critical thinking, vision, lifelong learning, building loyalty and commitment to the organization, role model, mentor, adaptability, and building successors are essential skills of a leader (AONE, 2015).
4. Professionalism
In a professional environment, Leaders are to inspect what they expect to ensure that actions and processes preserve an efficient work environment. Professionalism is accomplished by demonstrating and withholding ethical principles that others can mimic (AONE, 2015).
5. Business Skills
A dynamic leader seeks to build a dynamic organization through revision of systems and processes, demonstration of societal and technological trends, management of financial resources as well as interpreting benchmarks (AONE, 2015).
My immediate professional development plan is to improve my communication skills with my colleagues, to exercise leadership abilities in my decision making skills, and to explore my business skills through participation in operational budget analysis and strategy meetings as permitted by the organization, by the time that I graduate in 2016.
Reference
American Organization of Nurse Executives. (2015). AONE Nurse Executive Competencies. Retrieved from http://www.aone.org/resources/leadership%20tools/nursecomp.shtml (Links to an external site.)
1. Communication and relationship-building
Communication is a core quality conducive to a professional working environment. It is the glue that holds the relationship of leaders and followers together. Communication is being challenged in the workplace every day. And its negative impact leads to an atmosphere of hostility and defensiveness which greatly disturbs team building, care quality, and safety. The Nurse Leader must ensure that communication practices are professional and conducive to a healthy work environment.
2. Knowledge of the health care environment
The leader’s influence expands as widely as their ability to tap into their knowledge and clinical experience in order to understand their followers as well as to build a vision for the workplace. This knowledge includes health care policy, patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, and evidence-based practice (AONE, 2015).
3. Leadership skills
Receptiveness, critical thinking, vision, lifelong learning, building loyalty and commitment to the organization, role model, mentor, adaptability, and building successors are essential skills of a leader (AONE, 2015).
4. Professionalism
In a professional environment, Leaders are to inspect what they expect to ensure that actions and processes preserve an efficient work environment. Professionalism is accomplished by demonstrating and withholding ethical principles that others can mimic (AONE, 2015).
5. Business Skills
A dynamic leader seeks to build a dynamic organization through revision of systems and processes, demonstration of societal and technological trends, management of financial resources as well as interpreting benchmarks (AONE, 2015).
My immediate professional development plan is to improve my communication skills with my colleagues, to exercise leadership abilities in my decision making skills, and to explore my business skills through participation in operational budget analysis and strategy meetings as permitted by the organization, by the time that I graduate in 2016.
Reference
American Organization of Nurse Executives. (2015). AONE Nurse Executive Competencies. Retrieved from http://www.aone.org/resources/leadership%20tools/nursecomp.shtml (Links to an external site.)