NSG3EPN Critique contemporary nursing leadership theories, core competencies, and personal capabilities: Engagement in Professional Nursing Assignment, LTU, Singapore, Singapore

SILO 4 Critique contemporary nursing leadership theories, core competencies, and personal capabilities and their importance to individuals, teams, and the nursing profession.

Rationale
Leadership is not a skill only needed in a management position. As a newly registered nurse, you can demonstrate leadership skills in your practice. It is important to reflect on leadership qualities in others and yourself as a future leader.

Instructions
In this reflective essay, you are expected to draw upon both your undergraduate student nursing experiences, your current work environment, and the contemporary peer-reviewed literature to address questions regarding leadership. While employing a firstperson writing style is suitable for this task, it is essential to substantiate your critique and justifications with evidence from peerreviewed sources.

Please ensure all document formatting follows the APA 7 style guidelines. This includes the use of an APA 7 title page, 1.5/double line spacing, in-text citations, appropriate subheading levels and formatting, and a final reference list. Please review the La Trobe Academic Referencing Tool or the APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for further assistance.

1. Introduction (50 – 100 words)

2. Nursing leadership theory (400 – 450 words)
Reflect on your current work environment and identify two (2) qualities that were displayed by nursing leaders. Firstly, critique these qualities within the nursing leadership style you believe they most closely align with (e.g.: Laissez-faire, Transformational, Autocratic etc.).
Secondly, provide an argument of whether each quality aligns with effective leadership. You must support your critique and arguments with evidence from the peer-reviewed literature.

3. Yourself as a nurse leader (400 – 450 words)
Reflect on your own nursing practice and identify two (2) qualities that you want to develop further as an emerging nurse leader. Firstly, justify why these qualities are important within healthcare leadership.
Secondly, identify a strategy you can employ to strengthen each quality. You must support your justification and strategies with evidence from the peer-reviewed literature.
4. Conclusion (50 – 100 words)

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