Purpose
The purpose of this Collaboration Café is to reflect on your formal or informal leadership experience across a variety of settings.
Course Outcomes
This Collaboration Café enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision-making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
- CO 4: Describe interprofessional communication and collaboration strategies. (POs 2, 3)
Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Directions
Collaboration Café: Reflect on Knowledge
Step 1: Reflect on your experiences within and outside the healthcare setting and consider how you have exhibited leadership in a formal or informal capacity.
Step 2: Answer all questions below with explanations and details. No scholarly sources are required.
- Paragraph one: Examine your personal guiding principles and beliefs. Which ones do you think have influenced your approach to leadership?
- Paragraph two: Reflect on your personal or professional leadership experiences. How do you feel your personal or professional background has shaped or influenced your ability to lead?
- Paragraph three: Reflect on instances when your professional nursing values (i.e., quality care, family presence, compassion, etc.) or specific ethical principles (i.e., autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence) guided your actions as a formal or informal leader. How did adhering to these principles impact your experience and the experience of others?
SOLUTION:
Examine your personal guiding principles and beliefs. Which ones do you think have influenced your approach to leadership?
When thinking of my guiding principles in leadership, I believe it started 38 years ago in Mexico when at the age of 12 I had no choice but to work, to support my family. As a result, at a very young age, I understood the importance of a strong work ethic, integrity and emotional maturity. These attributes led to my ability in the past to not only ensure could maintain my job but that I could get promoted with better pay and hours. This especially proved to be true in the jobs I held in my nursing career. Having being able to collaborate with others at such a young age gave me a strong foundation………………………..KINDLY CLICK ON THE PURCHASE LINK BELOW TO ACCESS THE ENTIRE SOLUTION FOR $8 OR CONTACT US VIA WHATSAPP NUMBER +254721652000