Leadership in Health Care Organizations Practicum - Coursework Example

Leadership in Health Care Organizations Practicum al Affiliation Leadership in Health Care Organizations Practicum Both in my personal and professional life, I have been in situations that made me act as a leader and under a leader. Different leaders have different ways of leading and using their subordinates to fulfill given objectives. Some leaders appreciate the subordinates while others use and manipulate them. In my professional life, there was a time I felt used and manipulated. I was working as a nurse student at a given health center and was placed under a nurse leader who was an experienced nurse at the telemetry department.

At first, the nurse leader was nice and professional while showing me what I was required to do, the responsibilities that a nurse should observe, and the code of ethics required when dealing with patients among other things. She encouraged and helped me to become a better nurse. However, as soon as I had understood the environment well and known some of the responsibilities that I was given as a nurse student, she started acting differently. She made me do most of her work especially the daily duties that she knew were less likely to be supervised on a regular basis.

She sent me to check on her patients, bring her the files and medicine for those patients and sometimes administer medication to them. Sometimes, she even sent me to bring her personal things such as food and snacks. She said that I was returning the favor she did to me when she introduced me to the roles of a nurse in the hospital and that the roles she gave me would help me become a better nurse especially the fact that I was young. I did not like the way she treated me because she used and manipulated me but I had to do what she wanted because if I did not, she would have written a bad report for me.

I felt that the nurse leader did not value me but only used me.According to servant leadership, the issue of purpose for a leader is to help those under him or her be the best they can be and develop both professionally and personally by cultivating an atmosphere that allows the subordinates to do so. However, the nurse leader’s actions were contrary to this observation by servant leadership. Although she helped me grow professionally, she failed to help me develop personally and never cultivated an atmosphere to allow me to develop professionally and personally (DelHousaye & Brewer, 2004).

The issue of purpose in the servant-leader paradigm could have yielded a more beneficial outcome for the leader and yourself in the sense that it could have helped the nurse leader to develop my professional life with humility rather than manipulative nature. It would have guided her actions as a leader to understand that the purpose of a leader is to serve others and not vice versa (Trastek, Hamilton & Niles, 2014). Understanding purpose in servant leadership would have helped her handle me differently by encouraging me to always take my responsibilities seriously rather than her responsibilities.

It would have made her do her responsibilities as a nurse leader rather than transfer them to me and we could have had a better experience.ReferencesDelHousaye, D & Brewer, R.K. (2004). Servant Leadership: The Seven Distinctive Characteristics of a Servant Leader. New York: SBC [Scottsdale Bible Church] Press.Trastek, V. F., Hamilton, N. W., & Niles, E. E. (2014, March). Leadership Models in Health Care—A Case for Servant Leadership. In Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 374-381). Elsevier.