Identify and evaluate characteristics of leadership that promote excellence in organizational outcomes of care delivery, fiscal accountability, and professional growth of the nurse leader as well as others. Interview 3 Nurse Executives – Chief Nurses with an MSN requested, in some cases the interview may be with a leader at an Administrative Director Level, depending on the type of Health Care Organization in which students complete the interview.
For each leader describe:
- The current role, top priorities. 10 Points
- Leadership Characteristics – leadership style and top 3 competencies of success as identified by the Nurse Leader. How do style and competencies compare to competencies identified in the literature? 20 Points
- Professionalism – Mission, service, professional activities – 20 Points
- Major accomplishments of career – exemplars. 20 Points
- Analyze, identify the level of leadership, based on Jim Collin’s Level 5 Leadership, using exemplars and references. 20 Points.
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Organization of Executive Report
In Search of Level 5 Leadership
Title Page
Intro: Discuss Level 5 Leadership and the purpose of the exercise.
Leader 1
* Role
* Leadership Characteristics
* Professionalism
* Career Accomplishments
* Level of Leadership- Level 5 Executive Leader.
Leader 2
* Role
* Leadership Characteristics
* Professionalism
* Career Accomplishments
* Level of Leadership- Level 5 Executive Leader
Leader 3
* Role
* Leadership Characteristics
* Professionalism
* Career Accomplishments
* Level of Leadership- Level 4 Effective Manager
Summary: Value of the understanding of Leader 5 Leadership.
Reference List
APA Format with References, Title Page, Reference List (minimum 5 references), Content 500 – 1000 Words – not counting Title Page and Reference List. 10 Points
Leadership Excellence
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliations
Leadership Excellence
Effective leaders possess a mix of traits that they utilize to successfully lead teams and execute their functions. Contemporary organizations benefit greatly from leaders who can uplift them from lower levels to higher levels. A level 5 leader possesses the highest level of leadership capabilities that can produce results that raise a company from an average level of performance to sustained excellence (Collins, 2001). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the results of interviewing 3 Nurse Executives by identifying and evaluating leadership characteristics that promote excellence in organizational outcomes of care delivery, fiscal accountability, and professional growth.
Leader 1: Dr. Kimberly Hatchel, RN.
Role
Dr. Kimberly has been a nurse for 31 years. Her role is CNO/COO at Bronson Healthcare Group, Michigan. Her leadership priorities include efficiency and understanding the workforce. She believes that organizations need to look at the total reward package for benefits and salary as a strategy to keep the workforce and maximize efficiency.
Leadership Characteristics
Certain leadership competencies make leaders function effectively. The 3 competencies needed for success, according to Dr. Kimberly, include driving for execution to make things happen, communicating effectively, and authentic relationship building (Daradkeh et al., 2022; Fukada, 2018). These characteristics enhance both team and organizational performance.
Professionalism
Dr. Kimberly’s mission is to provide exceptional healthcare for as many people as possible. Her service to the nursing profession is to be part of an unbreakable brother/sisterhood with the greatest ability to serve other people. She believes that leaders are given the ability to mentor and teach other nurses (Jaworski et al., 2022). What motivates teams, according to her, is access to the leader and being able to communicate effectively with the leader. The leader’s professional activities include staying involved and participating in professional organizations.
Career Accomplishments
Dr. Kimberly’s greatest accomplishment is that she was able to utilize epic dashboards in real-time to drive work. Other career accomplishments include mentoring and growing people. She had a charge nurse whom she helped move up the ladder and they turned the emergency room around. She eventually asked the nurse to be the CNO of this MC McKinny hospital. She hopes to accomplish initiatives that impact patients and nurses in the future. Her favorite role was becoming the first assistant CNO over ISO hospitals. In this role, she learned the most in nursing leadership.
Level of Leadership- Level 5 Executive Leader
Dr. Kimberly is client focused. She is committed to pulling together multidisciplinary teams to fix things as soon as possible. The level of leadership that best fits Dr. Kimberly’s leadership characteristics is Level 4: Effective leader (Collins, 2001). She works with teams to realize a clear vision. Transparency is essential and she has been able to move some big projects in 15 weeks.
Leader 2: Evely Ku MSN, PHN, RN
Role
Ms. Everlyn identifies as a leader who is committed to her work. She has been a CNO at Henry Mary New Hall Hospital since 2020. Her top priorities are patient safety and patient care.
Leadership Characteristics
The leadership characteristics possessed by Everlyn make her perform her current roles effectively. Her top three competencies of success include communication skills, remaining organized, and discretion (Fukada, 2018). Discretion helps leaders to initiate actions in their organizations (Yuan et al., 2020).
Professionalism
Ms. Everlyn has a mission of enhancing a strong community reputation. She has been offering nursing services for 30 years. Prior to becoming the CNO at Henry Mayo, she was the CNO, COO & VP of patient care services at Advanced Healthcare Mang Alhambra. In her professional activities, in addition, Ms. Everlyn is an associate professor of nursing at E. Los Angeles College Cal State LA & Standingbridge University and also serves on the education advisory boards for all 3 schools.
Career Accomplishments
The leader takes pride in her career accomplishments. She states that one of her career accomplishments is going through Corio and its challenges. The hospital she was at previously continued to meet the highest standards of patient care safety. According to Xie et al. (2021), nurse leaders must be able to promote patient safety and healthcare quality within their settings. Being included in the patient safety Honor Roll from Cal. Hospital Compare & the Cal Health & Human Service Agency was a great accomplishment.
Level of Leadership- Level 5 Executive Leader
Ms. Everlyn sees herself as a transformational leader who motivates employees and inspires them to find the best ways to achieve their goals. Her leadership characteristics conform to Level 5: Executive (Collins, 2001). She can also lead to achieving patient safety patient outcomes and patient satisfaction which are the goals she strives for.
Leader 3: Jodil Hein-DNP, MHA, RN, NED-BC
Role
Jodil is a CNO at Providence Holy Cross MC, a role she assumed in 2021. She serves her role with commitment and determination. Her top priorities include clinical quality outcomes which she achieves through recruitment and retention. Other priorities are patient as well as employee satisfaction.
Leadership Characteristics
The success of every leader is determined by his or her leadership characteristics. Jodil’s 3 competencies of success include communication skills, the ability to collaborate, and professionalism that is attained by serving as role models or mentors. These are some of the key skills that make a nurse leader competent (Fukada, 2018).
Professionalism
The leader’s mission is to build a workplace environment that encourages collaboration, professionalism, mentorship, nursing advocacy & work-life balance. She has 19 years in nursing management. She has been serving as a nurse for 39 years. Jodil held multiple CNO jobs, once a CCO job where she was the senior clinical executive responsible for the clinical staff leading to her current position as CNO of Providence St. Joseph Health Holy Cross. The leader’s professional activities include supervising and directing nurses and nurse managers (Jaworsky et al., 2022). She also manages the financial aspects of the clinical departments as well as on-boarding new nurses.
Career Accomplishments
Jodil has accomplished several initiatives in her role as a nurse and as a nurse leader. Examples of her accomplishments include being able to effectively recruit new staff and implement a comprehensive training program that helps with retention. These programs ensure that the organization is able to provide quality and safe care to patients (Xie et al., 2021).
Level of Leadership- Level 5 Executive Leader
Jodi is a transformational leader who enjoys motivating her employees to take ownership of their roles. She also encourages them to push themselves to perform beyond what they think they are able to. These leadership characteristics fit best as Level 3: Competent leader (Collins, 2001).
Summary: Value of the understanding of Leader 5 Leadership
Understanding levels of leadership helps leaders to understand their degree of competence in performing various leadership functions. The three leaders interviewed have different levels of leadership. Although two of them have not attained Level 5 Leadership, they still have opportunities for improvement through training and persistent practice.
References
Collins, J. (2001). Level 5 leadership: The triumph of humility and fierce resolve. file:///C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/Mod._1.1._Level_5_Leadership_-_Jim_Collins_-_Harvard_Business_Review.pdf
Daradkeh, L. F., Villar, R. C., & Nashwan, A. J. (2022). The perception of nursing leaders towards communication and relationship management competencies in using digital platforms during COVID-19 in Qatar: A cross-sectional study. Journal of nursing management, 10.1111/jonm.13722. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13722
Fukada, M. (2018). Nursing competency: Definition, structure and development. Yonago Acta Medica, 61, 001-007. file:///C:/Users/Admin/Downloads/yam-61-001_nursing_Competency.pdf.
Jaworski, M., Panczyk, M., Leńczuk-Gruba, A., Nowacka, A., & Gotlib, J. (2022). The trend of authentic leadership skills in nursing education: The key role of perfectionism and self-efficacy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), 1989. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19041989
Xie, J., Ding, S., Zhang, X., & Li, X. (2021). Impact of a patient safety leadership program on head nurses and clinical nurses: a quasi-experimental study. Revista Latino-americana de Enfermagem, 29, e3478. https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.4328.3478
Yuan, S., Chen, Z., & Sun, M. (2022). Discretion: Whether and how does it promote street-level bureaucrats’ taking charge behavior?. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 805872. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805872