Self-Reflection: Personal Leadership Supporting Professional Leadership The leadership of advanced practice nurses plays an important role in the future care delivered to patients within a society so badly in need of healthcare improvements and reform. The challenge is to further develop all nurses and their abilities to be truly transformational in this process. Advanced practice nurses can serve as complexity leaders and role models for the entire nursing profession, which will ensure excellent
their learning and work experiences and as to change interpersonal and organizational practices. From a critical point of view, Willmott (1994 pp. 116) emphasizes the importance of reflection and learning in transforming “control into emancipation”. To this end, critical action learning becomes a process of reflection on the adequacy and value of programmed organizational knowledge. According to Trehan and Pedler (2009), critical action learning does not only address problems belonging only to individuals
their daily jobs whether in home base or deployed to countries in Middle East, South West Asia or Africa. According to Kolb experiential theory the learning in adult take place with experience through the four stages of learning where the learner moves through the various stages through practical experience rather than a formal setting.David knolb’s experiential theory learning comes from a real life scenario of real world
sociological theory designed in the eighteenth century by the radical philosopher, Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier, Prussia; Marx’s ideology is based on the interrelationship between human societies. According to this philosophy, societies contain economic class divisions that dictate human interactions. These interactions are the basis for the development of human rights and law. While it is an instrument for the attainment and preservation of political authority, this theory demonstrates how
In the academic context, ‘reflection’ is defined as; “a generic term for those intellectual and affective activities in which individuals engage to explore their experiences in order to lead to new understandings and appreciations. It may take place in isolation or in association with others. It can be done well or badly, successfully or unsuccessfully.” (Boud, Keogh and Walker, 1985, p 19) Needless to say, engaging in reflection at an academic level is more than merely passively remembering and
on this momentous occasion. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Chinton Chan and his team for their courage in taking up this important responsibility. Meanwhile, I would also like to thank Mr. 何建僖 and his team for their leadership, effort and dedication over the past year. This induction ceremony is an important rite of passage for both the incoming and the outgoing student leaders. It also symbolizes the passing of the baton from one generation of
definition of leadership in the clinical care environment will be provided, following which the importance of leadership for healthcare will briefly be discussed, simultaneously defining the qualities of a leader’s behaviour in influencing effective team work. A list of effective leadership behaviours and personal team leader qualities will be compiled, so as to highlight their ability to diagnose and apply appropriate and selective conceptual knowledge to a clinical practical leadership. Furthermore
Research and Reflection - Management Perspective When I think of the types of leadership and managerial qualities I would like to follow and emulate, I think of J. Summers, Vice President of Operations at Quest Medical in Allen, Texas. Summers has worked at the company for more than ten years and has been instrumental in turning around several departments within the organization. S/He has recently been assigned to manage the operations department, and it is well on its way to achieving record-breaking
factors are classified by literature depending on the context surrounding the decision-making process, (Jocumsem, 2004). 2-1 The external factors Different elements external to the organization influence the process of decision-making by the leadership such as: the national economy, the availability of employees specialized (in the banking sector for our topic). - Economical factor: In general, the evolution of two levels of economy influences the decision-making process: the evolution of the
Luban addresses two main questions: how we got from there to here, that is, from just war theories that embraced the punishment theory to its current erasure. The second being whether the punishment theory may nevertheless be right. For decades, just war theorists realized that wars could be waged to fulfill desire, punish or avenge wrongdoings. Currently, this punishment theory of just cause has evaporated from international law, which recognizes only collective and individual self-defense as