Overview
. Conduct a face-to-face interview with a nurse leader who has at least 2 years’ experience as a nursing leader. You are required to provide his or her name, title, employer, years of nursing leadership experience, e-mail address, and phone number in paragraph 1 of your paper. Failure to provide this information will result in a zero grade for this assignment because a faculty member will need to contact each nursing leader to follow up on your interview. After establishing rapport, ask questions such as the following:
What is the demographic information of the nursing leader interviewed?
Describe your leadership position.
- Describe your leadership style.
- In what ways do you think your leadership style has changed as you have gained more experience as a leader?
- Did you have a mentor? If so, what skills did you gain as a result of that relationship?
- Describe a change management project that you led and the steps taken to implement the change and to measure the effectiveness of that change.
- What obstacles did you face in implementing the change project?
- Describe how you would use your leadership skills to mentor a new nurse leader.
In your opinion, what is the greatest challenge that nurse leaders face today in health care? (This question will be used in a later Discussion Board assignment.)
- After the interview, write up the narrative of your interview describing the responses of the nurse leader. You should have the following headings in your paper:
- Demographic information of the nurse leader
- Description of the nurse leader’s position
Description of the nurse leader’s style and where it fits with the theories discussed in Unit 1
Description of the nurse leader’s experience with a change management project, including the implementation of the change and the evaluation of the change
- Description of obstacles that a nurse leader may face in implementing change
- Description of leadership skills used to mentor a new nurse leader
- Discuss the value of a mentor.
- Describe what you would look for in a mentor if you were in a new nurse leader position.
- Conclusion
- Based on your interview and what you have learned thus far, is an effective leadership style used by this nurse leader?