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ASSIGNMENT

Written Assessment - The AT 3 assignment asks you to discuss and analyse in more detail, 2 of your chosen discussion posts that you submitted for Assignment 2 (AT2) (600 words for each topic).

For the 2 posts that you choose, you are to discuss and analyse professional leadership in nursing in further detail. Building on your engagement from the online forum posts you will expand your responses through the use of sound written and analytical communication skills, to analyse in greater depth the major theoretical foundations of leadership and their application to nursing practice. This is to demonstrate your understanding of the contribution of sound leadership that enhances service delivery to improve health care outcomes. You must read and research widely and use further contemporary literature to support your stance. You must also include again as you did in AT2, screen shot evidence of your original entire posts and response posts in a single (1) collated word document via Tumitin on LEO.

Purpose: Building on student engagement from 6 online forum posts (assignment 2), this assessment enables students to showcase sound written analytical communication skills and to consider leadership in nursing and health care, and the expectations and opportunities in their professional role

Clinical leadership is an essential skill gained through education and continual practice which ensures a high-quality health care system is maintained and safe and efficient care is provided consistently (Xu,2017). A new graduate RN is a learner whose focus should be on improving skills such as critical thinking, time management, effective communication and decision making (Ward, 2017) which are also the attributes of clinical leadership (Stanley,2018). These skills help build up confidence not only in the person itself but also their clinical practice which enhances safe and qualitative patient care. Thus, if one possesses the clinical leadership skills, they consequently become confident, and confidence empowers better results improving health care system.

No matter what activities the nurses engage in, they always revolve around leadership and collaborative work. Therefore, it is equally important to learn to be an efficient clinical leader if one wants to develop confidence and improve clinical skills. (Stanley, 2018).