Combining Nurse Leader with Advocacy

Combining Nurse Leader with Advocacy Name University Lecturer Date Combining Nurse Leader with Advocacy Nursing is a vital practice in the medical arena. Any community values nurses because of their concern and care for the health. Nurses should be competent and reliable enough in their practice due to the high level of dependency that the community bestows on them. According to the Nurse Manager Skills Inventory, a nurse should possess distinctive skills to enable him/her execute nursing duties effectively (Benbow & Jordan, 2009). This paper seeks to give a reflective account through identifying my strengths and weaknesses related to content areas such as personal and professional accountability, career planning, personal journey discipline, and reflective practice reference tenets. In addition, this paper will discuss how I will use my current leadership skill set to advocate for change in my workplace. The goal of every nurse is to further their professional leadership goals. This reflective account will enable me identify an implementation plan to achieve my personal goal for my leadership growth. I will also be able to identify my strengths and weaknesses in my practice. My personal goal for my leadership growth entails my development and training as a nurse and effective communication capability with colleagues and patients operating in the health sector. This ultimately facilitates receipt of information that effectively explains the patient problems and methodologies of treatment (Garber, Gross & Slonim, 2010). Personal and professional accountability facilitates creation of significant partnership between patients, health workers, and other stake holders within the field of health. In addition, this content area satisfies the need of a clean health care environment and continuance of health care services. Together with effective career planning, personal journey disciplines promote excellence in clinical medicine and health care provision. My career planning indicates my strengths such as safe effective care delivery, evidence-based care, multidisciplinary team working, decision making and prioritization, care planning, effective communication skills, and professionalism (Riley, 2012). This is a reflection on my role as a health professional in charge of ensuring safe and effective discharge of patients from the hospital to their homes. This reflection is based on my personal experience at work that disclosed both my strengths and weaknesses in discharging my duties as a nurse. It will include a description of my experience, reflection, factors that influenced my decision and other choices available that could influence my decision and lessons learnt from the experience. The role of discharge planning team involves coordinating transition of a patient from the Hospital to their homes. This is due to the fact that safe transition to their homes is an important process in the recovery of a patient. As a member of the discharge team, it is my responsibility to advise the patient on the importance of recovering in a rehabilitation facility or at home. For example, on a reflection of what happened in the past while I was on placement in Accident and Emergency Unit. I was asked to recommend treatment for an old diabetic man who just finished his treatment at the hospital. As a member of the discharge team, I recommended that the patient looks for a home care so that he may effectively respond the treatment administered this recommendation was, however, overruled by the family of the old man, in spite of the assertions by Geriatric professionals that the patient has the capability of a quick recovery if enrolled in a care home, as opposed to his house (Riley, 2012). On reflection of my personal and professional accountability, this was a very unpleasant experience that occurred in my life in my duties. It may have been both unprofessional and unethical to suggest to the old man that he attends a care...