NUR367: Leadership for Nursing Practice

Assessment 2: Critical Reflection

Suggested structure: (1000 words)

Introduction ≈ 100 words: Leadership is important to nursing blah blah. In this critical reflection I will discuss X leadership style, and its importance to nursing practice as well as some limitations....

Paragraph 2 ≈ 200 words: Transformational leadership is a leadership style characterised by… (talk about the characteristics. Define them as needed). According to Jones (2023) …. use some studies to further define it, maybe talk about its use in healthcare. Is it popular? Is it beneficial?

Paragraph 3 ≈ 200 words: Transformational leadership resonates with me because... Your personal experience with it, your personality, your experience with a transformational leader or with a non-transformational leader and the impact of this.

From researching transformation leadership I have also found how beneficial it is in healthcare.

Paragraph 4 ≈ 200 words: According to Igwe et al. (2023) transformation leadership reduces burnout in nurses blah blah. Another study by Schulz (2022) surveyed 1002 nurses and found that....

Paragraph 4 ≈ 200 words: However, despite its obvious benefits to transformational leadership, there are several challenges to implementing it in nursing. Firstly blah blah blah (Peters, 2021). One way to overcome this is to blah blah blah (Zhang, 2020). A second challenge is that blah blah (Thomson, 2019). In a study by Ariman (2018), nurses overcame this challenge by blah blah blah

Conclusion ≈ 100 words: Overall it is clear that TL is a blah blah blah (no new ideas)

Extension - apply before the due date 21:59

100-200 on average = 1 paragraph 100 intro and conclusion (each)

Suggestion.

PEEL. Point. Elaborate. Evidence. Link.

Introduction

What is the leadership style? (in-text citations) - 2 sources

Define it

History of it

Central tenets

What research says about it

Use in nursing

Why the style resonates with me. ‘The X style resonates with me because…’.

Why it is important to nursing (in-text citations)

What does research say. Research says does X, Y, Z

According to Jones et al. (2020)....

Challenges and strategies

Conclusion - don’t introduce new ideas. ‘Overall it is clear that X leadership style is an excellent… because A, B, Cand the stra

Referencing

APA 7th.

What’s a high-quality reference?

Nothing ending in .com, .com.au, .org → private websites.

WHO, .gov.au, peer-reviewed journal articles CDU library, google scholar, textbooks. 10

A good rule of thumb… is to use a minimum of 2 in-text citations per paragraph. 2 unique references per paragraph.

Avoid quotes. If you use one, make it short. Limitations.

Ask me to discuss ideas, road blocks