Question

Conduct an interview with a Nursing leader which includes but is not limited to VP of Patient Care Services, Director of Nursing, Nurse Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Practitioner, Charge Nurse, Team Leader or someone in another type of designated leadership position. Obtain the following information during your interview.

 General Background information:

GenderEducational PreparationWork HistoryMemberships in Professional OrganizationsNetworking strategiesWhat characteristics should a leader possess?

Do you feel as though you possess these characteristics?

Are there any aspects of leadership that you feel you lack or could improve on existing qualities? How has your outlook and/or behaviors changed over the years?

How do you deal with change?

What do you think will be the greatest challenge for professional nurses in the next five years?

How do you support or advocate new ideas?

What role do you play in performance improvement initiatives?

What is your role as a preceptor or mentor?

Who are you students or “mentees”?

Does anything motivate you to continue to precept or mentor, if so, what?

Do you have a choice in being a mentor or is it expected as part of your employment?

Answer 1

Conducting an Interview with the nursing professionals is helpful to identify the existing problems and it helps in improving the situations thereby benefiting the people who needs our support.

Interview with nurse practitioner may be as follows

The general background includes graduation or post graduation in nursing with practitioner specialisation.

Empathy, sensibility,sincerity,honesty , loyalty are the main qualities or characteristics a nurse possess.the profession made the nurses to be kind hearted and empathetic.

As a leader always I motivate myself to support the fellow nurses and to educate them, encourage them and support them for the betterment of health care process and to keep smiles on lives.

Nursing is really a different and challenging profession.The nurse as a single person has to play different roles and she will have many responsibilities.she should act as a nurse,advocate,counsellor etc.The roles and responsibilities were increasing incredibly day by day.

In the next five years ,we can see a remarkable shortage of nurses,that would give an impact on healthcare.Because of work overload and other reasons we can expect the nurses shortage.

It is not only a single nurse responsibility,it is each and everyone s responsibility to express our concern and ask for adequate staff and other requirements for the smooth functioning of health care sector.

Learning is a continuous process.I do enjoy to learn and even to teach.mentoring is really a challenging job as the mentees were new and it's the mentor whole responsibility to teach the mentees.

The mentor should be capable of teaching correctly and regular follow up required to evaluate them.They should be trained in a way that they should act promptly in any situation

Continuing both as a mentor and a nurse is really a good thing.but I like to be as a nurse and I like to save many lives which puts smiles on every ones face.