Nursing Leadership Guide To be successful in today's health care arena, nurse leaders need a variety of skills. Guided by theory and research, implementation of leadership and management skills affords nurses the opportunity to collaborate, head teams, and facilitate optimal health care delivery in a variety of settings. With these changes, the role of the professional nurse is dynamic and challenging. Preparation for these changes gives the professional nurse a solid understanding of the dynamics needed for the situation at hand. In order to develop leadership and management competencies, it is vital that a historical review as well as knowledge and understanding of present day leadership and management theory be realized. Coupling this foundation with personal style and situational need is a formula for leadership success. This simply adds more tools to the professional toolbox. The more options we have, the better able we are to match our actions to the situation presented. With this additional scope of understanding, the professional nurse can demonstrate the dynamics necessary for success. In addition to meeting immediate demands, planning and implementing long-term change in relation to current and future health problems can be put into action. For your course project, you will develop a leadership guide for a group of junior nurse managers participating in a leadership class. The leadership guide should speak to a variety of leadership components. Your professional conceptualization will be based on your current or past practice. Consideration of change and health care delivery in your area of nursing, professional and personal values, holistic assessment and implementation, and current climate and culture will be included in this guide. These dynamics will be explained within the framework of nursing theory, historical understanding, and predictive outcomes and needs. In the final step of developing the guide in Unit 10, you will bring all of these components together along with a one-page summary that discusses how having this knowledge can impact the nurse's role in leadership and management. You may organize your leadership guide in any order, but it should follow a logical sequence. You may also be creative and incorporate graphics if you wish; just be sure that you have included and addressed all of the required components. In this unit, you will submit the culmination of your course project—the Nursing Leadership Guide assignment. This guide should be developed for a group of junior nurse managers, who are taking part in a leadership class. In addition to the four project components that you have already developed in Units 2, 3, 5 and 8, your guide should demonstrate your understanding of the influence of nursing history and theory on current nursing leadership practice. In the final step of developing the guide, you will bring all of these components together, along with a one-page summary that discusses how moral, legal,.

1. Nursing Leadership Guide
To be successful in today's health care arena, nurse leaders need
a variety of skills. Guided by theory and research,
implementation of leadership and management skills affords
nurses the opportunity to collaborate, head teams, and facilitate
optimal health care delivery in a variety of settings. With these
changes, the role of the professional nurse is dynamic and
challenging. Preparation for these changes gives the
professional nurse a solid understanding of the dynamics needed
for the situation at hand.
In order to develop leadership and management competencies, it
is vital that a historical review as well as knowledge and
understanding of present day leadership and management theory
be realized. Coupling this foundation with personal style and
situational need is a formula for
leadership success.
This simply adds more
tools
to the professional toolbox. The more options we have, the
better able we are to match our actions to the situation
presented. With this additional scope of understanding, the
professional nurse can demonstrate the dynamics necessary for
success. In addition to meeting immediate demands, planning
and implementing long-term change in relation to current and
future health problems can be put into action.
For your course project, you will develop a leadership guide for
a group of junior nurse managers participating in a leadership
class. The leadership guide should speak to a variety of
leadership components. Your professional conceptualization
will be based on your current or past practice. Consideration of
change and health care delivery in your area of nursing,
professional and personal values, holistic assessment and
implementation, and current climate and culture will be
included in this guide. These dynamics will be explained within
the framework of nursing theory, historical understanding, and

2. predictive outcomes and needs.
In the final step of developing the guide in Unit 10, you will
bring all of these components together along with a one-page
summary that discusses how having this knowledge can impact
the nurse's role in leadership and management. You may
organize your leadership guide in any order, but it should
follow a logical sequence. You may also be creative and
incorporate graphics if you wish; just be sure that you have
included and addressed all of the required components.
In this unit, you will submit the culmination of your course
project—the Nursing Leadership Guide assignment. This guide
should be developed for a group of junior nurse managers, who
are taking part in a leadership class. In addition to the four
project components that you have already developed in Units 2,
3, 5 and 8, your guide should demonstrate your understanding of
the influence of nursing history and theory on current nursing
leadership practice.
In the final step of developing the guide, you will bring all of
these components together, along with a one-page summary that
discusses how moral, legal, and ethical behaviors can influence
a nurse's role in leadership and management. You may organize
your leadership guide in any order, but it should follow a
logical sequence. You may also be creative and incorporate
graphics; just be sure that you have included and addressed all
of the required components that you will be graded upon.
Your completed guide should contain these components:
Title page.
Table of contents.
Assessment of a Nursing Leadership Problem (Unit 2).
Annotated Bibliography (Unit 3).
Leadership Theories, Styles, and Application (Unit 5).
Strategic Analysis and Leadership Interventions (Unit 8).
One-page summary.
Reference page.

3. Writing Requirements
Length: Your paper must be at least 10–12 pages long,
excluding the title and references pages.
Use double spacing with one-inch margins.
Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Format the paper (including references) according to APA (6th
edition) style and formatting guidelines.
References: At least 15 references. Please include the sources
from your annotated bibliography as part of your references.
You may use your text and other articles provided in the course
but be sure to provide a minimum of two references from other
sources. Use APA style throughout.
Project Objectives
To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:
Evaluate theories and practices of leadership and management
for application to specific health care situations.
Reflect on personal leadership style and preferences based on
contemporary theory.
Incorporate knowledge of nursing history and theory into
nursing practice.
Integrate the standards of the professional nurse and nurse
leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one's own nursing
practice.
Apply effective clinical knowledge, skills, and judgment of the
professional nurse and nurse leader in direct and indirect
clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality
outcomes.
Review the literature in the field of nursing for application to
plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect
patient care situations.
Integrate effective evidence-based leadership, management
strategies, and practices into one's own professional practice.
Incorporate the attributes of professionalism (altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into
professional nursing practice.
Evaluate the benefits and limitations of how health care is

4. financed and services reimbursed on health service delivery and
patient outcomes.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling,
grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; and correctly format
citations using APA style.
Criteria
Non-performance
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
Evaluate theories and practices of leadership and management
for application to specific health care situations.
10%
Does not evaluate theories and practices of leadership and
management for application to a specific health care situation.
Lists theories and practices of leadership and management at a
basic level and partially applies to a specific health care
situation.
Evaluates theories and practices of leadership and management
for application to a specific health care situation.
Evaluates in substantial detail theories and practices of
leadership and management for application to a specific health
care situation.
Reflect on personal leadership style and preferences based on
contemporary theory.
10%
Does not reflect on personal leadership style and preferences
based on contemporary theory.
Writes at a minimal level on personal leadership style and
preferences based on contemporary theory.
Reflects on personal leadership style and preferences based on
contemporary theory.
Reflects on personal leadership style and preferences based on
contemporary theory, evaluates personal leadership style in
impressive depth.
Incorporate knowledge of nursing history and theory into

5. nursing practice.
10%
Does not incorporate knowledge of nursing history and theory
into practice.
Recognizes knowledge of nursing history and theory into
practice at a basic level only.
Incorporates knowledge of nursing history and theory into
practice.
Incorporates the knowledge of nursing history and theory into
practice, and evaluates nursing history in context of today's
practice.
Integrate the standards of the professional nurse and nurse
leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one's own nursing
practice.
10%
Does not integrate the standards of the professional nurse and
nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one's own
practice.
Integrates, partially, the standards of the professional nurse and
nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one's own
practice.
Integrates the standards of the professional nurse and nurse
leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one's own practice.
Integrates thoroughly the standards of the professional nurse
and nurse leader (ethical, professional, legal) into one's own
practice.
Apply effective clinical knowledge, skills, and judgment of the
professional nurse and nurse leader in direct and indirect
clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality
outcomes.
10%
Does not apply effective clinical knowledge, skills and
judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or
indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and
quality outcomes.
Outlines some effective clinical knowledge, skills and judgment

6. of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or indirect
clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and quality
outcomes.
Applies effective clinical knowledge, skills and judgment of the
professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or indirect clinical
practice settings to promote patient safety and quality outcomes.
Applies impressively effective clinical knowledge, skills and
judgment of the professional nurse and nurse leader in direct or
indirect clinical practice settings to promote patient safety and
quality outcomes.
Review the literature in the field of nursing for application to
plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect
patient care situations.
10%
Does not review the literature in the field of nursing for
application to plans of care and coordination of services for
direct and indirect patient care situations.
Recognizes some relevant literature in the field of nursing for
application to plans of care and coordination of services for
direct and indirect patient care situations.
Reviews the literature in the field of nursing for application to
plans of care and coordination of services for direct and indirect
patient care situations.
Reviews thoroughly the literature in the field of nursing for
application to plans of care and coordination of services for
direct and indirect patient care situations.
Integrate effective evidence-based leadership and management
strategies and practices into one's own professional practice.
10%
Does not integrate effective evidence-based leadership and
management strategies and practices into one's own professional
practice.
Outlines effective evidence-based leadership and management
strategies and practices into one's own professional practice.
Integrates effective evidence-based leadership and management
strategies and practices into one's own professional practice.

7. Integrates with distinguished clarity effective evidence-based
leadership and management strategies and practices into one's
own professional practice.
Incorporate the attributes of professionalism (altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity and social justice) into
professional nursing practice.
10%
Does not incorporate the attributes of professionalism (altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into
professional nursing practice.
Outlines some of the attributes of professionalism (altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into
professional nursing practice.
Incorporates the attributes of professionalism (altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice) into
professional nursing practice.
Incorporates with distinguished clarity the attributes of
professionalism (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity,
and social justice) into professional nursing practice.
Evaluate the benefits and limitations of how health care is
financed and services reimbursed on health service delivery and
patient outcomes.
10%
Does not evaluate the benefits and limitations of how health
care is financed and services reimbursed on health services
delivery and patient outcomes.
Lists some of the benefits and limitations of how health care is
financed and services reimbursed on health services delivery
and patient outcomes.
Evaluates the benefits and limitations of how health care is
financed and services reimbursed on health services delivery
and patient outcomes.
Evaluates at a substantial level the benefits and limitations of
how health care is financed and services reimbursed on health
services delivery and patient outcomes.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling,

8. grammar, punctuation, and mechanics and correctly format
citations using APA style.
10%
Does not write clearly and logically and writing shows little
attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and
does not correctly format citations using APA style.
Uses sentence structure that is mostly clear, with a few minor
spelling or grammatical errors but fails to attribute quotes and
citations in a few places, or allows some inconsistencies in APA
style.
Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling,
grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and formats citations
correctly, using APA style.
Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling,
grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, with no errors, and
formats citations correctly using APA style, and all information
is accurate and up-to-date.