Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Unit Related
Leadership
Date: 4/28/2016
Working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, progressing in the Charge Nurse Role
Strengths
Careful listener
Calm demeanor
Experience with
Womens care
Team player
Interest in evidence
based practice
Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,
Journals/
Certifications
Serve on Quality
Improvement
Committees
Participate in unit
related research
Develop confidence in
communicating with
providers
Receive ACLS
certification
Subscribe to
maternal/infant journals
N 479
Book Selection
(based on
strengths and
weaknesses)
The Disease to
Please:
Explains the negative
results of being a
people pleaser and
teaches strategies to
reverse this mindset
Allowing the
Lead committees on
quality improvement
Submit research
proposals to nursing
journals based on unit
observations
Remain up to date on
evidence based practice
demands of others to
outshine ones own
needs is destructive.
A leader must be able
to say no in order to
delegate, prioritize,
negotiate, or ask for
help (Braiker, 2001,
p. 51).
Leadership
Shadowing
Experience
Professional
Activity/
Community
Service
Education:
Cont. Nrsg.
Educ. and/or
plans for
Higher Educ.
Allowed me the
opportunity to view
the role of the charge
nurse on the
Womens Care unit
The nurse I
shadowed was very
experienced and
would make an
excellent future
mentor
Demonstrated a
Democratic
leadership model