(5 points)

Directions: Prior to your Team Lead Day, complete the following questions with well thought out answers. Textbook Reference Pages: Huber: Leadership and Management: Chapter 1

1. If you were the charge nurse/manager on this unit, what type of leadership do you want to use?

2.How would you specifically demonstrate this type of leadership in day-to-day activities?

3.If you noticed that the manager told the staff to use the ISBARR tool for handoff; but, the staff was not using the tool, as the charge nurse, what would you do to?

4.As the charge/manager, how would you develop staff leadership?

5.Select a time when you had to take the leadership role.

• Considering the content in a nursing leadership and management text, analyze how you demonstrated leadership.
• In addition, provide an example of how you could have improved your leadership skills.

6.Take the opportunity to learn about yourself by reflecting on five predominant factors identified as being influential in a nurse's leadership development: self-confidence, innate leader qualities or tendencies, progression of experiences and success, influence of significant others, and personal life factors.

• Consider what reinforces your confidence in yourself.
• What innate qualities or tendencies do you have that contribute to your development as a leader?
• Consider what professional experiences, mentors, and personal experiences or events can help you influence others and help you develop the qualities of an effective nurse leader.