Leadership Self-Assessment Reflection Paper
As you continue to grow professionally, taking time to assess your own areas of strength as well as areas that could benefit from skill development can help you formulate your own plan to enhance your capacity in a nurse leader role.
Assignment directions
There are many key competencies for leaders in health care, including nurse leaders. The attached worksheet contains just ten (10) of these competencies. Rate yourself on each of these on a scale of 1-5 using the Leadership Self-Assessment Worksheet attached below. Then think about where you fall on the below scale.
1= Novice: Your primary focus is understanding and gaining information in order to comprehend needed leadership skills; at this stage you are expected to require assistance when performing this skill.
2 = Competent: You have experience that gives you a level of confidence so you are able to independently complete this skill as needed, though help from experts may be needed from time to time.
3 = Expert: You are able to intuitively analyze and solve problems; you can provide guidance to others, troubleshoot, and answer questions related to this skill.
Although you will not be sharing the results of your self-assessment, choose three (3) competencies where you rated yourself as needing further development. (These will usually be items scored 1-2; if you have no items which were scored 1-2, pick competencies where you are not yet an expert.)
Write a paper addressing the following
Explain why each of these three (3) competencies are essential skills for a nurse leader (either formal or informal). Provide an example for each, either from the literature or from your own experience
Describe actions you can take now and, in the future, to develop your leadership role.
Support your writing with at least three (3) scholarly sources (Please use current resources – 5-10 years).
Your paper should be approximately five (5) pages long, including title page and reference page.
Format your paper in accordance with APA 7th edition guidelines (title page, headings, body, references).
