QUESTION #1

This week you need to be exploring effective leadership, particularly in coalitions. What are some of the elements of effective leadership? Have you seen evidence of this effective leadership in your professional practice (think of some of the professional groups you may be a member of, most of them do have a political agenda)? What practices may lead to ineffective leadership?

(Here’s a sample thread from another student……When a group or groups come together unified for a singular purpose they can be successful, but they do need that solid leadership. This solid leadership must be aware of goal attainment, but not so focused that the participants feel that they are not getting new knowledge and skills or they are not getting any benefit along the way of attaining this goal (Cramer, Atowood, & Stoner, 2006). A strong leader must be in place to maximize productivity and have a plan in place to address these possible issues. This solid leader will use scenario planning to prepare for different approaches to meet the unified goal with keeping its members on tract and prepped with the new knowledge that is needed to keep the coalition strong.)

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We are starting to use more simulation for education. The leader of this simulation with help from fellow staff are trying to get simulation on the map at our facility. It took getting upper management to be on board with this and to get them to see that this would be worth the investment of money ant time to do this. The leader was strong in her vision and had the other team members on the same tract of this vision. She helped make them unified. This leader knew it would be an ongoing process and to keep the goal in sight she gave them the education they needed and continues to do so with in-services, conferences and encouragement of becoming certified in simulation. She allowed for growth and flexibility as the the use of scenario planning does in an effective coalition.

Reference:

Cramer, M., Atwood, J., & Stoner, J. (2006). A conceptual model for understanding effective coalitions involved in health promotion programing. Public Health Nursing, 23(1), 67-73.

(Here’s the response from the professor….Good review of the topic. While internal organization functions and groups are important we would not normally consider them to be a coalition in the sense of what we are looking at in health policy. A coalition would be diverse groups getting together to address an issue, so it might be several community organizations combining their resources to address an issue within the community or in the topic you are discussing with simulation it could be different nursing organizations banding together to help support the increased use of simulation in nursing education.)

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