The Importance Of Being An Exemplary Leader

Being a leader can be a very challenging task. It is important that one remain mindful that being an exemplary leader requires great determination and devotion despite certain barriers that can form such as staff resilience and noncompliance. These can grow to be discouraging factors to an individual that is in a leadership role. After I passed my nursing licensure exam, and was a per diem staff nursing supervisor at a local nursing home in the area. The fellow staff members that I worked with watched me flourish from a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), to a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), and finally to a Registered Nurse (RN). Many of them have a personal relationship with me that started since the time that I was a CNA. We worked side by

As a democratic leader, the many who knew me since I was working as a CNA continued to respect the principles that I always valued. One of those principles is to be a fair and logical person. Allowing the staff members to participate in the decision making process of assigning assignments, along with ensuring that everyone was content with the final decision that I as a leader made helped to support this principle immensely. As one of the benefits of being a democratic leader, “Team Members tend to have job satisfaction and are productive because they are more involved”. (Amanchukwu, Stanley, & Ololube, 2015). As time progressed the satisfaction that the staff within the unit felt started to show. The fear that the familiarity that the held with me would cause resilience and noncompliance

I learned to understand that “ Leaders are compelling role models, and their actions communicate messages as to what is considered acceptable behaviors” (Kaiser , 2016). My willingness to take everyone’s thoughts into considerations led to other staff members doing the same towards each other. The idea that one was to only focus of their assigned task also grayed. The staff started to do things like swapping patients along the way to maintain good time management. This had a great impact in the satisfaction of the patients that were on the unit. As I took a position in at the Reading Hospital, I vowed to forever keep that experience as a reminder of why I became a Registered Nurse. To guide, respect and serve not only my patients but also my fellow