Nurse Leadership Analysis and Interview
As BSN-prepared nurses, you will automatically be regarded as nurse leaders. Nurses function as leaders in any and every role you serve, and you will be both as a graduate nurse and as you progress through the trajectory of your career. This assignment is for you to consider your own aspirations of leadership and to interview a nurse leader in one of those stages. Please utilize the interview guide to form the framework for your 3-page paper (excluding title page and references page). Utilize APA 7 formatting and guidelines and use at least 3 scholarly sources (other sources may be used, but they must be in APA 7 format, and there needs to be at least 3 scholarly sources).
Paper Guide:
What leadership position do you aspire to attain? Why? What is your understanding (pre-interview) of that position? Find someone in that leadership position and secure a time to interview them.
Interview/Questions:
· Tell me about your role.
· What do you wish you had known prior to taking this position? Who were some of your mentors prior to/after taking this
· position?
· How would you describe your leadership style? How do you implement it?
· What was your trajectory to this role? What is next for you? If you knew then what you know now, would you still take this leadership role?
· What surprised you most about this role?
· What is the hardest part of this leadership role?
· What is your favorite part of this leadership role?
· You can ask any other questions that flow from the interview or that you want to understand.
· Conclusion/Reflection:
· What is your personal understanding now after the interview? Did this interview change your view of the leadership role? How?
· What other insights did you glean from this interview?
NOTE: The position can be about a clinical nurse manager