Name
Capella University
NURS-FPX6201
Instructor’s Name
October, 2024
Individual Power Plan
This paper identifies the challenges that have emerged as the healthcare environment changes such as human Resources Management of the multi-generation work force, Patient Care Management of patient needs, and the changes that he healthcare system reforms have brought (Power et al., 2023). Leadership is the ability to induce others to work towards a desired goal. From that perspective, lead influence is imperative to the identity of nurses in translating positive work culture, and change, as well as enhancing the design of patient care. This individual power plan will discuss the individual methods of gaining power; creating power; using power: and identifying leadership in a nursing context.
Sense of Power
Leadership mastery is impossible without a certain sense of power. Power helps those in a position of authority to exercise control, make and steer people toward fulfilling goals (Wada, 2020). Unlike the other professions, power in nursing is about achieving the capacity and gaining the appropriate skills to make the right ethical decisions, effectively speak on behalf of patients, and mobilize patients, healthcare colleagues, families, and communities.
Managers in nursing need to comprehend power relations in health care organizations. For that, they should act as a patient advocate and champion change in care delivery and growth of their teams (Wada, 2020). It also includes the mastery of organization politics and their polity to enable the nurses to effectively participate in the development of reforms in health care.
Motivation
Leadership motivation entails the influence of the self and others towards the achievement of self and organizational objectives. Motivation in nursing is spurred by factors that include; the need to deliver quality patient care, enhance professional practice as well and promote improvement of health systems locally as well as globally (Nepali et al., 2023). Stress and, therefore, burnout is common among nurses, which requires the creation of self-motivation techniques to maintain an individual and collective focus on goals.
Nursing self-motivation relates to goal setting by developing goals that can be achieved, work-life balance, and searching for personal, and professional development (Scheller et al., 2021). Managers should also be aware of the major motivational requirements of the staff to provide the necessary conditions for constant professional development and cooperation. First of all, motivation nurtured by nurse leaders will help organizations gain improved job satisfaction and, therefore, patient results.
Power Plan Strategies
Strategies for Enhancing Power
Leaders constantly strive to acquire such power in an organization. To achieve the power of nursing leadership, the following are potential approaches: increasing the scope of nursing practice, social networking, and effective speaking skills (Christensen et al., 2020).
For the purpose of improving power, the nurse leaders need to keep abreast with the advances in practice, knowledge, information technology, and policy, and develop a network of professional contacts, and social contacts both internal and external to the organization as well, becomes important (Alsadaan et al., 2023). These relationships offer partnership, training, and advocacy, potentials for the faculty members in this study.
The final key area of power in leadership, the fifth one, is communication. Because they determine policies, make choices, and ensure fair dispute resolution, nurse leaders must articulate well (Christensen et al., 2020). Executive who manages to master the skill of communication can be trusted, which in turn, strengthen his or her authority and influence in the organization.
Empowering Others
Nurse leaders, among their roles of responsibilities, always must empower other staff members. Empowerment is a process of equipping team members with all they require to function effectively within their practicing jurisdiction (Bahlman et al., 2023). Nurse leaders can involve subordinates in decision-making, assign duties, and foster the assertiveness of the health care staff.
A bit of delegation also means that leaders need to be calm and friendly to those they lead, as well as provide them with the structures and advice to help them improve their working lives (Zhang et al., 2022) The results presented here indicate that through supporting their subordinates, nurse leaders can boost organizational commitment, productivity and staff morale.
Building a Personal Power Base
Acquiring personal power requires people to possess all the key qualities that are needed to lead effectively. Nurse leaders can support their team and raise their voices in designing policies and implementing practice change processes where organize a solid personal power (Zhang et al., 2022).
For the development of formal and informal power in the organization, nurse leaders should pay attention to professionalism in terms of education, certification as well as leadership training (Antonio et al., 2024). They should also maintain social relations with essential stakeholders including the health care administrators, the policy makers, and the professional bodies. These are the platforms for changing how decisions are made and being the voice of the pan-nursing profession.
Furthermore, to transform knowledge creation, nurse leaders must collectively transform the image of nurses from being mere implementers of the formulated policies and decisions in the health sector (Antonio et al., 2024). Thus, personally, nursing leaders are better placed to enhance their power base through participation in policy debates and lobbying for nurse leadership positions so that collectively the profession would also gain ground.
NURS FPX 6201 Assessment 3 Conclusion
The current work has focused on the attributes of the individual power plan that call for self-assessment, motivation, and planning in the nursing profession. Mastery of power includes self-power in addition to other people’s power; motivation of self and others; ideas for increasing power; and, approaches to power which, when employed by nurse leaders, enable them to provide effective leadership to their teams and make an important contribution to the advancement of healthcare systems (Cole et al., 2023). One of the critical enabling strategies in leadership is the power of others to enhance a personal power base that allows nurse leaders to champion change and support the nursing profession. The recent changes in the healthcare environment require that products of nursing education exhibit flexibility, embrace ongoing professional development, and advocate for subordinates.
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