Reference no: EM133541286
Scenario : Mrs Parker
You have been assigned team leader for one of the nursing teams on your ward today. On your team is a senior enrolled nurse with years of experience and two assistants in nursing (one a third-year student nurse). After the team's morning huddle, you walk into a four-bed bay to start to administer the morning medications. You hear a patient screaming out in pain, in the room one of the AINs (the student nurse) is getting Mrs Parker (who is screaming) out of bed using a hoist, with the assistance of two wards persons. Mrs Parker was admitted from a nursing home with a bowel obstruction. Mrs Parker has a history of Alzheimer's, hypertension and chronic kidney disease. The curtains are drawn however Mrs Parker is indecently exposed with only a towel draped over her lap and is visibly upset.
Task Instructions
• Using the knowledge, you have acquired from studying NURS3001 you are to write a reflective essay based on one of the scenarios above. In the reflection essay, you must address the following key criteria for ONE of the scenarios:
1. Reflect on your own values as a leader and how you will demonstrate ethical leadership in this scenario.
2. Discuss your communications strategy to address the situation in the scenario, considering relevant leadership communication andconcepts, such as psychological safety, speaking up for safety, conflict management, providing feedback, and complaints management.
3. Discuss your decision-making process in this scenario and critique how you would delegate care according to the five rights of delegation.
4. Reflect on your strengths and limitations as a leader and strategies you could use to improve these and build confidence to provide leadership in the scenario.
• You are required to answer each key criterion separately using the criteria as a subheading for each new section (There should be four (4) sections). The headings should be as follows:
1. Leadership values and ethical leadership
2. Communication strategies
3. Decision-making and delegation
4. Self-reflection