NR 532 Vulnerability week 1 doc

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Many leaders hesitate to show vulnerability to their team. Discuss at least one way that you could show vulnerability as a leader to your team. How could this help you connect with your team in a po... sitive manner? In addition, what type of healthcare delivery system would you implement for your team? Discuss the rationale for your choice. Many leaders hesitate to show vulnerability, because they relate it to weakness. Weakness and vulnerability are two different things. In leadership, if vulnerability is shown, it brings relief for others looking up to the leader. Also, being vulnerable allows management to be closer and relate to patients, which builds rapport because patients are vulnerable also (Younie, 2016). Showing vulnerability shows that you are human, and it makes it less intimidating to come to the manager with any issues, problems, or feelings that the team has. One way to be vulnerable is to own up to your mistakes and share them. Sharing your failures whether as a floor nurse or a manager, and the lesson you learned from those failures, shows that you have been in their shoes before and you understand what they are going through. Acting like you are superior to your team shows that you are insensitive and better than they are. No matter if I am in an inpatient, outpatient, or long-term care facility I would want to utilize a full range leadership theory. This theory utilizes transactional, transformational, and laissez-faire leadership styles. There is a time and place for all of those styles. Transactional leadership is good to complete short term tasks, transformational is good to complete long-term vision of the hospital or unit, and laissez-faire is good for delegations and unit councils to come up with solutions to problems (Marquis & Huston, 2017). Marquis, B.L. & Huston, C.J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nu [Show More]

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