Interview Assignment
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Question 1: Role as a Healthcare Team Member
I play the role of a scrub nurse in the maternity wing of a city hospital. My duties also extend to the delivery unit in our maternity labor ward in emergency delivery cases, where we have a mother whose history has never been captured in our database. I also supervise and oversee daily activities at the hospital and especially admissions, while managing health care staff records to link the staff to management on matters welfare. Any support to health caregivers in the hospital is managed in my docket. During my off days, I occasionally get involved in community sensitization programs like educating communities on necessary self-care and fitness methods. These programs are especially very essential as they help community members learn how to live a better quality life.
Question 2: Professionalism
Professionalism is the fundamental adherence to standards and values stipulated in my career while at the same time matching them with personal beliefs and values to make the working environment the best area to operate. It involves the willingness and capacity to observe empathy, integrity, ethics, and competency in daily operations towards having the correct tasks are managed. It also extends to touch on the personal appearance in terms of dressing to give value to the organization. The public can judge places of work based on the mode of dressing of the employees, and poor appearances like unkempt hair can embarrass the profession peculiarly, pointing to incompetence. For instance, the physical appearance of a nurse can either inspire a patient or turn them off. In case a nurse is shaggily dressed, a patient may keep wondering how they can be taken care of by the nurse, yet their hygiene is in question, and this raises the question of incompetence. My top priority in that respect is taking care of the maximum attention of the patient. My patients need to feel my protection by assurance and guidance to recovery at all times of care and treatment. As I work towards caring for my patient, I, too, have a responsibility to promote the values of the hospital. All the decisions I make have to be in line with the mission and vision of the hospital and the core values, including integrity and leadership. Despite any prevailing hard times, I would not expose this to our patients. Maintaining the confidentiality of patients and hospital is paramount to me regardless of any conflict due to policy. The nurse code of ethics is very vital to me as well when professionalism is called to action. This is because it forms the basis of building confidence and relations that last more between nurses and patients who have recovered through acquiring desirable characteristics.
Question 3: Healthcare Steward
Yes, I see my leaders in our hospital as stewards. According to the definition, stewardship means the application of Godly values in management and leadership. In our facility, stewardship is defined as the leaders as applying the best practices in the interest of patients and staff. Leaders have to take that responsibility as stewards and drive the agenda of application of morals and of integrity in the handling of all patients and interaction with fellow employees, and this is what has been happening with us here. Stewardship is what sums the definition of nursing applied in both inpatient care and leadership. The ideologies of servant leadership and stewardship are very similar and have to go hand in hand for the successful execution of tasks. Therefore, no one can purport to be a servant leader and, at the same time, ignore the aspect of stewardship.
Question 4: Professional Advocacy, Authenticity, Power, and Influence
For leaders to remain influential, they must combine the aspect of advocacy and truth with power in a way to inspire employees to perform optimally. Leadership goes beyond controlling a group to include the ability to influence the group while remaining original. A transformational leader is expected to work with his subjects to come to a consensus of working towards transforming the particular organization. Subjects have positive behaviors towards leaders who take responsibility for their actions and remain authentic. In certain situations, a transformative leader is expected to demonstrate leadership and exert certain power levels of power to control the situation. A leader must at all times relate to his subjects while at the same time demonstrating authority. Leadership, however, without power is a recipe for lack of leadership without truth and control, which is most likely to fail. Therefore a team with such leadership may lose due to lack of opinions and team values.