Leadership in Health Care Organizations Practicum - Coursework Example

Leadership in Health Care Organizations Practicum al Affiliation Leadership in Health Care Organizations Practicum The charge nurse is very important personnel in the hospital setting because the role he or she plays is significant. The charge nurse supervises and supports a nursing staff and treats a limited number of patients within the hospital. However, the roles that a charge nurse are unpredictable because of the challenges that nurses and patients bring with them to the hospital setting.

As such, this position requires a person who is flexible, clinically competent, has excellent communication skills and can communicate effectively. More so, this role requires a leader (Donahue, 2010).As a charge nurse at Medical Telementary Unit, Bayshore Medical Center, I have power over the other nurses at the unit as their leader. I am responsible for providing guidance on administering care to new patients and patients who have special needs. I am also supposed to address any questions that both patients and nurses may have regarding care or any other issue of importance at the workplace.

In terms of the roles that nurses play at the hospital, I have a responsibility of guiding them, giving them moral support and motivating them to do their job professionally. I am supposed to document the performance of the nurses, counsel them when their performances are unsatisfactory and perform evaluations on their jobs. I am supposed to provide leadership in every case when in the hospital and help where I can in home problems that affect their work output when they are in hospital. I have to serve the nurses by addressing the problems and fears that they may have so that they can serve patients well (DelHousaye & Brewer, 2004).

Based on Servant Leadership: The Seven Distinctive Characteristics of a Servant Leader by Darryl DelHousate & Bobby Brewer, my responses compare to the view power in the sense that a leader must first be a servant to the people that he leads. Therefore, my responses fit in to this in the sense that as a charge nurse, I am a servant leader to the nurses and the patients who are under my wing. The nurses do not serve me; rather I serve them as their leader. The nurses serve the society by acting as healthcare leaders when promoting healthy living and helping treat diseases or offer intervention measures.

In this respect, I have to show humbleness and love when leading. I also have to trust and empower my nurses to fulfill their responsibilities (DelHousaye & Brewer, 2004). My reasons compare and contrast the secular view on power. My view agrees with the secular view on power that I should guide my followers (nurses), show them direction, make key decisions and motivate them to perform their responsibilities. However, it does not agree with the secular view in certain concepts. For instance, the secular view does not view a leader a servant.

Instead, it views followers as servants to the leader. However, my roles as a charge nurse and leader require that I serve them. Therefore, I am a servant as opposed to the secular view on leadership. Thus, my responses fit in the servant type of leadership as opposed to the secular view on leadership.ReferencesDelHousaye, D & Brewer, R.K. (2004). Servant Leadership: The Seven Distinctive Characteristics of a Servant Leader. New York: SBC [Scottsdale Bible Church] Press.Donahue, M. (2010). Nursing is the finest art (3rd ed).

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