Question – 2,500 words

You will need to reflect on an incident that occurred in the clinical environment whereby you have to demonstrate a variety of leadership skills. Some examples of incidents may include coordinating discharge, coordinating admissions, transferring a patient, or managing a critical incident on the ward e.g. self-harm, suicide, or physical abuse

RATIONALE FOR CHOOSING THIS INCIDENT

PLEASE DO NOT USE THE REFLECTIVE MODEL FOR THIS ESSAY

Minimum of 25 references.

Assignment task

The coursework for the Module is a 2,500-word (plus or minus 10%) reflective essay demonstrating your professional development.

You will need to reflect on an incident that occurred in the clinical environment whereby you have to demonstrate a variety of leadership skills. Some examples of incidents may include coordinating discharge, coordinating admissions, transferring a patient, or managing a critical incident on the ward e.g., self-harm, suicide, or physical abuse.

In your assignment, you should:

• identify relevant leadership and management theories and/or models and state clearly how these relate to your experience and/or learning from said experience.
• evaluate how the patient-led and patient-centred approach has worked or could work (this could include aspects of compassionate leadership)
• discuss how nursing leadership was carried out along with how you worked or could have worked with inter-disciplinary and inter-professional teams.
• demonstrate how you were supervised and assessed or how you provided some form of supervision and assessment.

Learning Outcomes

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1: Critically examine leadership theories to identify challenges within healthcare settings and explore a range of solutions
LO 2: Evaluate the coordination of care processes about patient-led and patient-centred care
LO 3: Critically discuss effective nursing leadership, interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration within teams
LO 4: Apply an understanding of the supervision and assessment of learners within the practice learning environment

Critical Incident

Any incident where there were inconsistencies in the processes that put the patients or staff at risk. This could be minor or major.

Examples are admissions, discharges, transfer of care, abuse, self-harm or suicide.

Introduction 350 – 500 words
Scene setting
Include aspects of the assignment related to the learning outcomes
Identify some of the key points
Briefly mention the incident

Body – 1,500 words
Briefly describe the incident
Integrate the political and economic landscape. Refer to local policy.
Integrate leadership theories and link them to team dynamics, the setting, and your role in the team.
Discuss interdisciplinary and interprofessional working
Evaluate care co-ordinating/ care coordination.
Finally, discuss the role of supervision

Conclusion 350 – 500 words
Summaries the findings
Evaluation
Recommendations

Plagiarism
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Task requirements
The work should be written in full sentences with paragraphs. You may if you wish use headings to organise your work.

Your submitted work should include:

• Page numbers
• Be presented in size 12 Arial font
• Have 1.5 line spacing
• Should be left-handed aligned
• Have an additional line space between paragraphs

Also, you should create an include a title page with the following information:

• Module Code and Module name
• The actual word count used (excluding reference list)
• The submission dates
• Your seminar leader’s name
• Your module leader’s name