NURS6201 Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare
Week 10 Module 4 Assignment
Transformational Leadership Analysis
Northouse (2016) explains that transformational leadership “is concerned with emotions, values, ethics, standards, and long-term goals.” It is a leadership skill that has the unique ability to motivate people to “accomplish more than what is expected of them.” How might transformational leadership be applicable in your leadership role?
For this Assignment, you examine transformational leadership within your own workplace environment. As a member of the nursing leadership team, you can help create a healthy workplace culture that promotes excellence in nursing.
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Reference
Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice (6th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE.
To prepare:
Think about the characteristics of transformational leadership.
Review the Sherman and Pross (2010) resource related to workplace culture.
Select a scenario from your current or past workplace in which a leader demonstrated transformational leadership.
Assignment (4–5 pages, not including the title page or reference page):
Describe the scenario you selected.
Describe the transformational behaviors or actions the leader exhibited. Be specific and provide examples.
Explain how these behaviors or actions produce the best care and environment for excellence in nursing practice and a healthy workplace environment that leads to quality patient outcomes.
For each behavior or action, provide an example of how excellence in nursing practice is taking place.
Explain how the leader’s behaviors and actions contribute to a healthy workplace culture.
Explain the relationship among transformational leadership, communication, and collaboration with other teams and how this promotes excellence in nursing practice.
Use the Resources and other literature to support your explanations.
Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The Sample Paper provided at the Walden Writing Center provides an example of those required elements (available at http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/57.htm). All papers submitted must use this formatting.
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