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Assignment: Leadership Skills and Mindset

Competencies

1) Identify Leadership and Management Principles

The learner differentiates between nursing leadership and management principles across the healthcare environment for quality care delivery.

2) Explore Leadership Mindset

The learner explores leadership mindset, including cultural sensitivity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, to positively influence patient care outcomes.

3) Application of Leadership Skills

The learner applies leadership skills to influence professional practice in a healthcare environment.

Introduction

Throughout your time at WGU, you will develop skills and knowledge that will support your practice as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. The purpose of this task is to create a shell of your portfolio. You will complete the remaining sections of the portfolio in later courses. A professional portfolio showcases your knowledge and skills to prospective employers and will increase your marketability as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. This portfolio will help you focus on the concepts, strengths, and clinical reasoning abilities that will define your professional nursing practice.

Near the end of the Intrapersonal Leadership and Professional Growth course, you will reflect on leadership applications, mindset, and skills, as well as potential challenges you will encounter in the healthcare environment. Through this process, you will learn how to incorporate leadership principles for professional growth into your professional practice.

Your e-portfolio should include strategies used to ensure self-care and resilience both personally and professionally. This task also promotes a leadership mindset, including cultural sensitivity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. In completing this task, you will increase self-awareness and knowledge of how to interact effectively with different cultures. Additionally, you will learn to apply the newly acquired leadership skills to positively affect patient outcomes.

E-Portfolio Creation

I. Create an e-portfolio shell using the "E-Portfolio Template" in the Weblinks section.

Note: The e-portfolio shell will be submitted and evaluated with this task at the end of D218, and the final e-portfolio will be submitted and evaluated at the completion of the program in D226 BSNU Capstone.

A. Include the following 11 headings in your e-portfolio:

1. Introduction
2. Ethically Competent Practice
3. Scholarship
4. Informatics and Technology
5. Safety
6. Leadership and Professional
7. Innovation
8. Quality Assurance
9. Compassionate Holistic Care
10. Professional Communication and Collaboration
11. Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development

B. Complete the required D218 artifact and corresponding reflection from the "Portfolio Artifact Table" located in the Weblinks section, and include the D218 artifact and the corresponding reflection in the Ethically Competent Practice section of your e-portfolio.

Note: Add the artifact from each assigned course to the corresponding section listed in the "Portfolio Artifact Table" in the Weblinks section as you complete the course.

Leadership Skills and Mindset Reflection

Note: The suggested length of your response for each part is ½-1 page.

II. Include your responses to parts III through V within the Introduction heading of your e-portfolio.

III. Complete the following:

A. Explain the differences between the roles of a leader and a manager.

B. Identify three present leadership skills and three present management skills (i.e., skills you possess).

1. Provide an example of how you use each of the leadership and management skills identified in part IIIB in your practice.

C. Identify three absent leadership skills and three absent management skills (i.e., skills you currently lack).

1. Provide an example of how you can improve upon each of the three absent leadership skills from part IIIC.

IV. Explain the importance of a leadership mindset and how it influences your professional practice, including the following:

A. Discuss how having a leadership mindset supports long-term personal growth, including two examples.

B. Discuss how having a leadership mindset supports long-term professional growth, including two examples.

V. Discuss how you would ensure equity and inclusivity as a leader in a healthcare environment, including two examples.

VI. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

VII. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.