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NR703 Week 2 Transformative Leader Presence Discussion

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Chamberlain NR703 Week 2 Transformative Leader Presence Discussion

NR703 Week 2 Transformative Leader Presence Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is to apply leadership skills, including mindfulness, to manage and sustain a practice change project.

Instructions

Understanding that the leadership characteristics you discovered in Week 1 are different competencies than management skills, describe how you might accomplish the following:

  1. Engage the project team through leadership competencies.
  2. Use mindfulness as a component of emotional intelligence to lead the project team.
  3. Influence an environment that will sustain the practice change.

Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.

Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:

Program Competencies

This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competences:

  1. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
  2. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
  3. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

  1. Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PCs 2, 4; PO6)
  2. Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
  3. Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
  4. Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PC 6; PO 8)

Due Dates

  • Initial Post: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Wednesday
  • Follow-Up Posts: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

Also Read:

Organizational Needs Assessment NR703

Sample NR703 Week 2 Transformative Leader Presence Discussion Dr. Dickson and Colleagues

Understanding that the leadership characteristics discovered in Week 1 are different competencies than management skills, I will describe how I might accomplish the following:

  1. Engage the project team through leadership competencies.
  2. Use mindfulness as a component of emotional intelligence to lead the project team.
  3. Influence an environment that will sustain the practice change.
  • Engage the project team through leadership competencies.

Leadership is essential in moving the needle to a more engaged team. In doing so, through leadership competencies I can increase the engagement levels of the project team. Team engagement, is by far one of the most important aspect in leading a project team as team member engagement strongly predicts performance.

With this said, I will elicit feedback by always talking to my project team to find out how they are doing. In addition take their proposals and solicit new ways of doing things in order to make progress on changes as this will make the members of the project team feel valued. Asking for feedback and not willing to address them will lead to the unintended consequence is disengagement (Ruiter, 2019). Communication is the cornerstone of engagement.

It will be especially important to communicate during times of stress and uncertainty to empower my project team. This will be achieved by Emotional Intelligence (EI). EI allows leaders to communicate well and make decisions that are best for all the organizations members (Barinua et al., 2022).  Competence as a leader implies managing people, problems, and complex situations while managing your own stress.  I will demonstrate empathy to engage my project team. The number one driver of engagement is trust in leadership and the best way to build trust is to show concern about the wellbeing of my team members. Also, in keeping a positive attitude the project team members will mirror my behavior.

  • Use mindfulness as a component of emotional intelligence to lead the project team.

Mindfulness is an extension of emotional intelligence that will promote my successful leadership of the project team. Mindfulness meditation has proved to be effective in increasing the well-being of those who practice it, leading to better mental health, self-care and job satisfaction (Jiménez-Picón et al., 2021). Maintaining an open-hearted awareness of my thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and environment in the present moment (Bunting, 2016) is essential in leading my project team.

Nadler et al. (2020) endorses that mindfulness training enhances the traits of emotional awareness, increases resilience, promotes a positive mood, and improves leadership competencies, especially creativity and decisiveness. By utilizing mindfulness to lead the project team I will be able to reduce burnout, which can manifest as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (Jiménez-Picón et al., 2021).

The reduction of burnout leads to a better performance at work, which is reflected in better communication with project teams, higher sensitivity to teams’ experiences, clearer analysis of complex situations and emotional regulation in stressful contexts (Jiménez-Picón et al., 2021). Being mindful will help me to build trust amongst the project team members. I will achieve this by creating an environment where team members consistently feel supported and have the resources and time they need to prioritize their tasks, build healthy collaborations, and have open and positive communications.

Mindfulness teaches non-judgment. In being non-judgmental of me and non-judgmental of others when things do not turn out optimally, me and the project team will refrain from judging ourselves as failures. Rather, shift our stance from failure to feedback to determine what we can learn from this situation in order to move forward.

  • Influence an environment that will sustain the practice change.

To boost productivity and quality, it is necessary to motivate an environment that will sustain practice change. This includes keeping the lines of communication open between me and the project team. To Influence the environment that will sustain the practice change I will take the time to explain to my team why the change is happening, and what it will look like in practice. I will make myself open to questions, hold team meetings, and invite project team members to come see me and talk through their concerns or thoughts in a neutral atmosphere.

I will create a road map to help the project team understand how does the change play into the organization’s history, and how is it going to shape its future. Laying this out will clearly demonstrate the thought and strategy behind the change, and will help the project team see how it fits into, or is evolving from, what they’ve become accustomed to. I will also invite participation as giving project team members the opportunity to participate in, or give feedback on decisions can be a really positive strategy.

Project team members will be appreciative for the chance to make their voices heard, and it will also be a great way to get different perspectives and understand impacts I might not have thought of otherwise. Above all else, I will focus on maintaining and exemplifying the qualities of a great leader. I will inspire my team; demonstrate strategic thinking; be open-minded and flexible; and show my project team that they can depend on me to have their best interests at heart. A strong leader can help their team weather the storms of change with confidence and clear-sightedness, no matter how challenging they might be.

Reference

Barinua, V., Chimere-Nwoji , C, C., & Ford, H. O. (2022). Manager’s emotional intelligence and team effectiveness: A theoretical review. Saudi Journal of Business and Management Studies. DOI: 10.36348/sjbms.2022.v07i05.001

Bunting, M. (2016). The mindful leader: 7 practices for transforming your leadership, our organization and your life. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

Jiménez-Picón, N., Romero-Martín, M., Ponce-Blandón, J. A., Ramirez-Baena, L., Palomo-Lara, J. C., & Gómez-Salgado, J. (2021). The relationship between mindfulness and emotional intelligence as a protective factor for healthcare professionals: Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(10), 5491. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105491

Nadler, R., Carswell, J. J., & Minda, J. P. (2020). Online mindfulness training increases well-being, trait emotional intelligence, and workplace competency ratings: A randomized waitlist-controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00255

Ruiter, P. J. A. (2019). Disengagement in health care: Today’s new culture. Canadian Journal of Physician Leadership. https://cjpl.ca/disen.html

Week 2: Building Translation Science through Leadership Presence

Week 2 Student Lesson Plan

Overview

Program Competencies

  1. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
  2. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
  3. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)

Course Outcomes

  1. Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
  2. Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
  3. Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6)
  4. Formulate selected strategies for leadership and influence across healthcare systems. (PC 6; PO 8)

Weekly Objectives

  1. Apply leadership theories and conceptual frameworks to guide professional practice. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6; COs 1, 2)
  2. Create a foundational framework for leading translational science through transformative innovation by examining theories and conceptual models. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6; COs 1, 2)
  3. Explore mindfulness as an intentional leadership behavior. (PCs 2, 4; PO 6; CO 3)
  4. Develop an organizational needs assessment. (PC 6; PO 8; CO 5)

Main Concepts

  1. The mindful leader (PCs 2, 4, 6; POs 6, 8; COs 3, 5)
  2. Organizational needs assessment (PCs 2, 4, 6; POs 6, 8; COs 1, 5)
  3. Leading through translational science frameworks and models (PCs 2, 4, 6; POs 6, 8; COs 1, 2, 5)

Schedule

Section Read/Review/Complete Course Outcomes Due
Prepare Assigned Readings COs 1, 2, 3, 5 Wednesday
Explore Lesson COs 1, 2, 3, 5 Wednesday
Translate to Practice Discussion: Initial Post COs 1, 2, 3, 5 Wednesday
Translate to Practice Discussion: Follow-Up Posts COs 1, 2, 3, 5 Sunday
Translate to Practice Assignment COs 1, 2, 3, 5 Sunday
Reflect Reflection COs 1, 2, 3, 5 No submission

Foundations for Learning

Start your learning this week by reviewing the following mindfulness videos:

Benson-Silvia, D. (2013, May 6). Mindless vs mindful listening [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/XGTnl9efHX0

Kimball, J. (2017, July 15). Needs assessment-security coverage [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZw3mSQul_o

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. (2015, March 18). What is mindfulness? Q and A with Dr. Amishi Jha [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FccK9UjuF0&feature=youtu.be

Student Learning Resources

Click on the following tabs to view the resources for this week.

Required Textbooks

Dang, D., & Dearholt, S. (2018). Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and guidelines. Sigma Theta Tau International.

  • Read Chapter 3
    • Section: Practice Question & Evidence
  • Read Chapter 4
    • Section: Developing Answerable EBP Question

White, K., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. (2021). Translation of evidence into nursing and healthcare (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

  • Read Chapter 9

Required Articles

Scan the following articles on Professional Practice Models:

White, L. (2014).  Mindfulness in nursing: An evolutionary concept analysis.Links to an external site. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(2), 282-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12182

Additional Resources

Review the following additional resources for further exploration of the weekly topics/concepts:

Grimsley, S. (2015, December 24).  What is needs assessment? – Definition & examplesLinks to an external site. [Video]. Study.com. https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-needs-assessment-definition-examples-quiz.html

Platt, G. (2010, June 24).  From performance gap to needs analysisLinks to an external site. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJKowt50a0Y

Learning Success Strategies

  • Start early in the week to complete the Organizational Needs Assessment
  • Start incorporating the concepts of emotional intelligence and mindfulness into your professional leadership identity.
  • Develop an awareness of the purpose for the organizational needs assessment.
  • Develop your ideas and thoughts through the interactive discussion. Review the discussion guidelines and rubric to optimize your performance.
  • You have access to a variety of resources to support your success. Click on the DNP Resources tab on the home page to access program and project resources.
  • Your course faculty is here to support your learning journey. Reach out for guidance with study strategies, time management, and course-related questions.

Interacting with Feedback

Each week your course faculty will provide feedback in the rubric and on any assignment you have submitted. Take a moment to review the following video on how to view rubric feedback in Canvas:

Review the following video on how to accept/reject track changes when viewing course faculty feedback on your assignment:

NR703 Week 2 Lesson 1

  • The Mindful Leader

·   Mindfulness: The Leader’s Compliment of Emotional Intelligence

  • Mindfulness is an extension of emotional intelligence, and it is a concept that promotes the DNP-prepared nurse’s success in the many roles of leadership they will fill. Bunting (2016) defines mindfulness as “maintaining an open-hearted awareness of our thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and environment in the present moment” (p. xviii). Competence as a leader implies managing people, problems, and complex situations while managing your own stress. Bunting also stresses that mindfulness is a position of strength, which leads from values and accountability, inspiring vision, empowering others, caring transparently, and transforming in a positive way.
  • The evidence is clear that practicing mindfulness is a key to both self-care and leadership success. The randomized control trial conducted by Nadler et al. (2020) supports that mindfulness training enhances the traits of emotional awareness, increases resilience, promotes a positive mood, and improves leadership competencies, especially creativity and decisiveness. DNP-prepared nurses should integrate this evidence into their own practices. Effective leaders shut down and reboot during the day through mindfulness practices. Listening to your body and the world around you, being present and aware, and relaxing in the moment decrease situational stress and improve creativity and productivity.
  • View the following activity to discover mindful practice techniques. Click “Begin Here” and go through the four mindfulness practice activities. Click the “Home” button after completing each activity to return to the main menu.

·       Mindfulness Activity Transcript

 Cultivating Mindfulness

  • Breathe Mindfully: Use your breath as an anchor to still your mind and bring your focus back to the present moment.
  • Listen Deeply: Listen with intention; let others express themselves and focus on understanding how they think and feel.
  • Cultivate Insight: See life as it is; allow each experience to be an opportunity for learning.
  • Practice Compassion: Consider the thoughts and feelings of others and let kindness and empathy be your guides.
  • Limit Reactivity: Stop, breathe, and choose a skillful response; be accountable for your actions.
  • Express Gratitude: Practice gratitude and expand it outward, appreciating everyone you encounter.
  • Nurture Mutual Respect: Appreciate and value different perspectives as well as your own.
  • Build Integrity: Cultivate constructive values and consistently act from respect, honesty, and kindness.
  • Foster Leadership: Share your unique talents to inspire others.
  • Be Caring: Cultivate your own inner caring and the caring of colleagues and patients.
  • Reflection: Mindfulness is a powerful approach to self-care. It is purposefully paying attention in the present moment with a sense of acceptance and nonjudgment. How can you incorporate mindful activities into your life?  Which one will you try today? How will you use mindfulness activities to teach with purpose?

Reducing Stress through Resilient Coping

To counter stress responses, practice the 5 C’s of Coping

  • Calm. Stay calm. The brain responds best when the body is in a physiological state of equilibrium, calm and relaxed yet engaged and alert. Mindfulness practice cultivates this state of equilibrium.
  • Clarity. Nonjudgmental awareness and acceptance of experience increases the capacity to see clearly what is happening and to respond with openness.
  • Connection. Clarity of response illuminates resources. Reach out for help as needed. Learn from others.
  • Competence. Call on skills and competencies previously learned.
  • Courage. Persevere until arriving at a resolution or acceptance.

Click next to cultivate calmness, clarity, connection, competence, and courage.

  • Image of forest: Breathe in the quietude of the forest.
  • Image of mountain: Breathe in the solidity of the mountain.
  • Image of water: Breathe in the stillness of the water.
  • Image of bird soaring in air: Breathe in the spaciousness of the sky.

Guided Meditation 5 minutes

This short, guided meditation is intended to help facilitate mindful awareness on the spot in whatever you are doing. Mindfulness can be practiced at any time as a way to slow down and be fully present. Allowing the body to become still, just inviting awareness to be right here in this moment totally present. You may notice any sounds in the room, perhaps the temperature, aware of the ocean of air that you inhabit, and bringing the mind into the body, becoming aware of the movement of the breath.

Feeling the breath as it comes into the body and leaves the body. Breath flowing in and breath flowing out. Not thinking about the breath but sensing the breath directly. Observing the reliable cycle of the breath without trying to change it in anyway. Breathing in, you’re aware that you’re breathing in, and breathing out, you’re aware that you’re breathing out. And then attending to the breath, you may also become aware of sensations in the body.

Just expanding your awareness to include the whole of the body. Noticing sensations, the point of contact with your seat. Perhaps noticing sensations at the soles of the feet, making contact with the floor or perhaps your hands making contact with the keyboard. Just drawing awareness to the whole of the body in this moment.

If this is a moment where you feel particularly distressed or anxious or discomforted, you may wish to take deep long in-breaths, full and deep expanding the chest, breathing down into an expanding valley, and then consciously and slowly releasing and allowing on the out breath, breathing in deeply and fully, and then releasing and allowing. Just settling into this moment. Nothing to attain. Completely inhabiting the present moment, knowing that at any point in the day, you can return to awareness of the breath.

Guided Meditation 10 minutes

In order to make a place in our lives for the regular practice of meditation, we can decide to set aside some time each day for ourselves. Time to take a break from the busyness of life, switching from a familiar mode of doing to a practice of non-doing, not having to change anything or make anything different just becoming present with kindness and curiosity to our unfolding moment-to-moment experience.

So now allowing the body to become still, sitting in a straight back chair or cushion on the floor. The back is straight without being stiff. Getting in touch with the quality of uprightness that supports awake, alert awareness. Your feet flat on the floor just under your knees, arms resting in your lap. Eyes open or closed, whichever’s most comfortable for you. Mouth slightly open to release any tension in the jaw. Just settling into this moment, feeling the support of the cushion or chair.

Settling into this stable seat and allowing yourself to simply be with the feeling of sitting upright and dignified. Bringing the mind into the body and now becoming aware of the movement of the breath. Feeling the breath as it comes into the body and leaves the body. Breath flowing in and breath flowing out. Not manipulating the breath or changing it in any way.

Simply being aware of the natural rhythm of breathing. Perhaps the breath is short or maybe it’s deep and long. But just noticing and attending to the sensations of your breath exactly as it is in this moment. You may notice the breath most prominently at the nostrils. Perhaps noting the breath is slightly cooler on the in-breath and warmer on the out-breath.

Just following the full journey of the in-breath and the out-breath. You may notice on the in-breath as the chest expands and deflates on the out-breath. Perhaps you may notice the breath most prominently at the belly, sensing the belly expand and then fall back toward the spine. Picking one of these areas–the nostrils, chest, or the belly–just attend to the sensations of the in-breath and out-breath, not thinking about breathing, but feeling the breath as best you can.

Observing the full and reliable cycle of breathing. Breathing in, you’re aware that you’re breathing in, and breathing out, you are aware that you are breathing out. Just allowing the breath to breathe itself. You will find from time to time that your mind will wander off into thoughts. When you notice that your attention is no longer here and no longer with your breathing, without judging yourself, just bringing your attention back to the sensation of breath, riding the waves of your breathing. Fully conscious of the duration of each breath from moment to moment. Just gently but firmly bringing your awareness back to the present.

Using your breath as an anchor to focus your attention, to bring you back to the present whenever you notice that your mind is becoming absorbed or reactive. Using your breath to help you tune into a state of relaxed awareness and stillness. As you observe your breathing, you may find from time to time that you’re becoming aware of sensations in your body. As you maintain awareness of your breathing, see if it’s possible to expand the field of your awareness so that it includes a sense of your body as a whole. Feeling your body from head to toe.

Becoming aware of all the sensations in your body. Observing not only the flow of breathing, but the sense of your body as a whole. Completely inhabiting the present moment. Dwelling in the present. Receiving this moment, welcoming this moment, attending to each moment. Just this breath. Just this moment. Being here with whatever feelings and sensations come up at any moment, without judging them, without reacting to them, just being fully here, fully aware.

Whenever you notice that your mind is wandering off, just bringing it back to your breathing and your body as you sit here, not going anywhere, not doing anything, just simply being, simply sitting. As the practice comes to an end, you might give yourself credit for having spent this time nourishing yourself in a deep way by dwelling in this state of non-doing, in the state of being. For having intentionally made time for yourself to simply be who you are, and as you move back into the world, allow the benefits of this practice to expand into every aspect of your life.

  • Further your exploration of mindfulness practice by viewing the following activity.

Mindfulness Slideshow Interactive Transcript

  • Slide 1: Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, to be aware of where we are and what we are doing, and not to be overly reactive or overwhelmed by what is going on around us. Please click on the “NEXT” button for tips to guide your mindfulness journey.
  • Slide 2: Keep an open mind; explore your world (yourself) and the ones around you with a spirit of curiosity.
  • Slide 3: Recognize the body’s stress reactions and decompress often (and reboot).
  • Slide 4: Learn from the theatre of life around you (mistakes are growth opportunities).
  • Slide 5: Be humble in your wisdom and make your heart accessible (practice kindness).
  • Slide 6: Be real and authentic.
  • Slide 7: Stay enthusiastic and happy.
  • Slide 8: Attend a mindfulness seminar or retreat and learn more.

NR703 Week 2 Transformative Leader Presence Discussion