Week 8 Leadership Portfolio Reflective Paper Leadership is a highly sought-after and highly valued commodity (Northouse, 2015). Essence of leadership is the ability to influence other people. Effective leaders enable people to move in the same direction, and effective nurse leaders are those who engage other to work together effectively in pursuit of a shared goal. There are many different ideas about how a person becomes a good leader. For the past eight weeks we learned about some of the best-known leadership theories and many qualities and behaviors that have been identified as those of the effective nurse leaders. We learned about fifteen different kinds of leadership approaches and theories. Transformational Leadership is one of them. Transformational Leadership: A leadership approach in which individual and their leaders engage in an exchange process that broadens and motivates both parties to achieve a greater level where the leader takes visionary position and inspires people to follow (Northouse, 2015). Meaning, inspiration, and vision were the distinguishing features of transformational leadership. The transformational theory of leadership emphasizes that people need a sense of mission that goes beyond good interpersonal relationships or the appropriate reward for a job well done (Northouse, 2015). This is especially true in nursing. Caring for people, sick or well, is the goal of our profession. Most of us chose nursing to do something for the good of humankind: this is our vision. One responsibility of nursing leader is to help us achieve our vision. My past experiences working as a service man, as a CAN, LVN, med-surge nurse, DOU, ICU units, and working as a house supervisor gives me an ample opportunity to develop my leadership skills throughout my carrier. I think I tried to be a great follower as well as a great leader as much as I could. I do have great relationships with my fellow coworkers and great evaluations records, but as being a human, I am not always perfect either. There are so many things are challenging especially when I used to work in ICU, and as a house supervisor. I was dealing with the doctors complain, family /patient issues, employees issues, and administrative issues including following hospital policies and procedures. Sometimes I work like as in a CEO, CNO, and pharmacist during the night. I feel I tested myself and went through difficult times. I have a strong feeling that if I handle all these kinds of issues for numbers of years without any major problems, plus by utilizing all leadership approaches and theories I have learned for the past eight weeks, I think I will be a great leader in the future. Transformational leadership is the process whereby a person engages with other and creates a connection that raises the level of motivation and morality in both the leader and the follower. These types of leader are attentive to the needs and motives of followers and try to help followers reach their fu.

1. Week 8 Leadership Portfolio Reflective Paper
Leadership is a highly sought-after and highly valued
commodity (Northouse, 2015). Essence of leadership is the
ability to influence other people. Effective leaders enable
people to move in the same direction, and effective nurse
leaders are those who engage other to work together effectively
in pursuit of a shared goal.
There are many different ideas about how a person becomes a
good leader. For the past eight weeks we learned about some of
the best-known leadership theories and many qualities and
behaviors that have been identified as those of the effective
nurse leaders. We learned about fifteen different kinds of
leadership approaches and theories. Transformational
Leadership is one of them.
Transformational Leadership: A leadership approach in which
individual and their leaders engage in an exchange process that
broadens and motivates both parties to achieve a greater level
where the leader takes visionary position and inspires people to
follow (Northouse, 2015). Meaning, inspiration, and vision were
the distinguishing features of transformational leadership. The
transformational theory of leadership emphasizes that people
need a sense of mission that goes beyond good interpersonal
relationships or the appropriate reward for a job well done
(Northouse, 2015). This is especially true in nursing. Caring for
people, sick or well, is the goal of our profession. Most of us
chose nursing to do something for the good of humankind: this
is our vision. One responsibility of nursing leader is to help us
achieve our vision.
My past experiences working as a service man, as a CAN, LVN,
med-surge nurse, DOU, ICU units, and working as a house
supervisor gives me an ample opportunity to develop my
leadership skills throughout my carrier. I think I tried to be a
great follower as well as a great leader as much as I could. I do

2. have great relationships with my fellow coworkers and great
evaluations records, but as being a human, I am not always
perfect either. There are so many things are challenging
especially when I used to work in ICU, and as a house
supervisor. I was dealing with the doctors complain, family
/patient issues, employees issues, and administrative issues
including following hospital policies and procedures.
Sometimes I work like as in a CEO, CNO, and pharmacist
during the night. I feel I tested myself and went through
difficult times. I have a strong feeling that if I handle all these
kinds of issues for numbers of years without any major
problems, plus by utilizing all leadership approaches and
theories I have learned for the past eight weeks, I think I will be
a great leader in the future.
Transformational leadership is the process whereby a person
engages with other and creates a connection that raises the level
of motivation and morality in both the leader and the follower.
These types of leader are attentive to the needs and motives of
followers and try to help followers reach their fullest potential
(Northuose, 2015). IAs I do have a great strengths, I also have
weaknesses in some of leadership areas. For example, I have
weaknesses in participating and interacting actively with some
coworkers, attending especial events, such as birth day party,
holyday participations, occasionally socializing. I think I need
to improve in these areas and my communication skills. I need
to improve these weaknesses by showing interests, by
participating more in socialization areas, by educating myself,
and by picking up great ideas and thoughts from great role
models and from great expertise.
To create change, transformational leaders become strong role
models for their followers. They have a highly developed set of
moral values and a self-determined sense of identity
(Northouse, 2015). I think every nurse should be a good leader
and a good follower. Once we have had time to develop our
clinical and leadership skills, we can begin in to think about
taking on management responsibilities.

3. Reference
Northouse, P.G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice (7th
ed.). Thousand Oaks. CA: Sage Publications
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Multivariate Comparisons Discussion
· Explain the similarities and differences between discriminant
analysis and multiple regression.
· Why would one use one of these methods over the other?