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1. Practice Question: In adult patients aged 18 years and older
Practice Question: In adult patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of depression,
will implementing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guidelines
for exercising impact depression scores over 8-10 weeks?Effective leadership is the
stronghold and success of every organization. As a leader, a Doctor of Nursing Practice
(DNP) student, a clinical expert, and an advanced practice nurse, I must be well-positioned
and prepared to engage with members of both the intra-professional and inter-professional
teams to support changes in my organization, nursing, and within the healthcare industry. I
must be fully aware of my strengths, my gaps, and my vision for the organization. I must be
able to lead, motivate, empower, and guide my team in trusting the vision, and together as a
strong team, we achieve the organizational goals. Leadership Strengths Some great
qualities I hold as a leader include, effective communication, interpersonal skills, and strong
character (Johnson and Smith, 2018). I communicate effectively and powerfully with my
team members keeping them abreast of the organizational goals, expectations, and
outcomes while encouraging open communication among the team. This helps build better
understanding, teamwork, and trust among the team while promoting the company’s goals
and outcomes. As a leader, I have well-established interpersonal skills and collaborative
ability, being able to collaborate with other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare
team to foster healthy living and quality care for our patients. I am respectful of myself and
others, I understand the common goals we share as team members within an organization,
providing the best quality evidence-based care to our patients. Through respect, I’m able to
gain confidence both within and outside my team which creates positive relationships,
teamwork, and high productivity.Strong character with high integrity and honesty has
enabled me to lead, motivate, and champion innovation and change, being able to embrace
and generate better innovative ways to improve performance among the staff.I have used
my skills as the leader and change agent for my DNP Project. I was able to communicate
effectively, sought clinical opinions, and engaged both intra-professional and inter-
professional teams in my project goals together as a unified team we have decided to
implement my DNP project to improve patient outcomes.Emotional intelligence is another
strong leadership quality I possess. Through emotional intelligence, I’m able to respect,
recognize, empathize, and understand, others, being able to recognize the clinical expertise
of the interprofessional team and their strong clinical contribution toward the successful
implementation of my DNP project (Tiffin and Paton, 2020). A Leadership skill I need
to develop is delegation. I need to be able to leverage the strength of others, being able to

2. assign specific activities to others to promote positive patient outcomes. To achieve this
goal, I must become familiar with their strengths, goals, and passions being able to delegate
tasks that they are passionate about and skilled to perform.Provide your instructor and
student colleagues with an update on your implementation plans for your DNP Project.
Share any successes, challenges, or barriers you experienced this weekFortunately, I
received both my IRB prescreening approval and my Chamberlain’s IRB waiver for project
implementation this week. Did your preceptor provide you with timely feedback when you
had questions?Did your preceptor review and provide you with feedback (if applicable)?Did
your preceptor serve as a professional role model for you this session?My preceptor has
been an exceptional role model, has been readily accessible, and responds to my questions
in a timely fashion. He is quite eager to see me succeed.ReferencesJohnson, C. & Smith,
C. (2018). Preparing nursing professional development practitioners in their leadership
role. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 34 (2), 99-100. doi:
10.1097/NND.0000000000000409.Miao, Humphrey, R. H., & Qian, S. (2017). A meta‐
analysis of emotional intelligence and work attitudes. Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology, 90(2), 177–202. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12167 (Links to
an external site.)Tiffin, & Paton, L. W. (2020). When I say … emotional intelligence. Medical
Education, 54(7), 598–599. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14160