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Initial Post

Introduction
There is one ongoing concern that needs to be addressed in my area of work. There is a high
nurse turnover rate. This has always been a concern in my department, being that I work with
psychiatric patients, but within the last year the turnover rate has drastically increased. This
causes higher nurse to patio ratios and increases the risk for an unsafe working environment. I
feel like the leaders in my facility can help combat this concern through communicating with
new hires and long-term employees about their well-being and paying closer attention to the
patterns for the turnover rate.
I could use my strength of positivity to help keep fellow coworkers upbeat and encouraged even
in the mist of such a high nurse turnover. The goal is that we continue to provide the best patient
care and make sure everyone is safe at the end of the shift. Therefore, if that means doing it all as
a team to get it done, we will do what we must do. I know how being short-staffed can be
frustrating so I could use my social awareness to address that difficult conversation with my
coworkers and let them know I understand, and maybe brainstorming together to possibly come
up with solutions to help our facility address this concern.
Leadership Theory
In a changing healthcare system, it is imperative to have skilled leadership to continue
improvements in patient care delivery and outcomes. The leadership theory that I would use to
address the nurse turnover rate at my job would be transformational. Transformational leadership
was proposed in 1978 by Burns and it focuses on encouraging engagement among the workers
within the organization and identifying the values of work ( Hall & Roussel, 2022). I would use
this theory model because when a leader is transformational, he or she is an influential
communicator, trustworthy, encouraging, promotes teamwork, optimistic, and empathic. These
are all the characteristics needed of a leader within my organization to help understand and
collaborate with employees to eradicate the problem.
Strengths-based Leadership Strengths & EQ Results
According to the leadership report by Gallup my identified strengths were arranger, relator,
individualization, achiever, and positivity. This means that I enjoy keeping busy while learning
the members of my group. I appreciate the different components that each team member brings
to the group, and I can use those unique dynamics in a group to maintain positivity while
accomplishing the task at hand. The EQ results show that I have a high score in social
competence in my social awareness and relationship management skills with other people. My
lower scores were in personal competence with the lowest score being with self-awareness. This
lets me know that I need to work on how aware I am of my emotions in response to certain
situations and people.
Table of Domains
Executing Influencing Relationship Strategic
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Building Thinking
Arranger Relator
Achiever Individualization
Positivity

Strengths & Weaknesses

Having a successful team and leader depends on building off the strengths and weaknesses of
those within the group. While my strengths include executing and relationship building my
weaknesses are influencing and strategic thinking. I may be able to execute groups that can work
productively together despite differences, but I lack in being able to quickly spot relevant
patterns and put ideas for resolution into words. Although strengths are usually a good
component within a group it can also be a downfall. Being too much of an achiever within my
group could hinder other team members from contributing and being active participants.
Therefore, I would try to make sure to give each team member a chance to be actively involved
before overachieving. It is always good to build on the strengths, but never to the point where it
weakens the dynamics of the group to being productive.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence can best be described as a series of personal, emotional, and social skills
that help one cope successfully with the demands originating from their environment (
Ordu et al., 2022
). Basically, emotional intelligence is being aware of surrounding people and situations,
and allowing time to observe and think before reacting which can lead to better outcomes.
According to Brou Fossier (2022), previous studies stated that having emotional intelligence
affected the quality of patient care, and by having emotional intelligence skills nurses could cope
with the emotional and physical demands encountered while providing patient care. In health
care, emotional intelligence can facilitate compassionate care and lead to better patient outcomes.
However, far as my emotional intelligence results my fellow peers agreed that I do lack self-
awareness, and I tend to avoid a feeling as it arises instead of moving toward it to work through
it. I totally agree, I need to learn to lean into my discomfort to better understand myself as life
unfolds. The level of emotional intelligence varies among everyone, but the goal is to improve
our own emotional intelligence skills to have successful personal and professional lives.
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References

Brou Fossier, K. (2022). Emotional Intelligence. Radiologic Technology, 93(4), 396–403.

Hall, H. R., & Roussel, L. A. (2022). Evidence-based practice: An integrative approach to

research, administration, and practice: An integrative approach to research,

administration, and practice (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Ordu, Z., Baysan Arabaci, L., & Buyukbayram Arslan, A. (2022). The relationship between

nurses’ emotional intelligence skills and positive mental health. Journal of Education and

Research in Nursing, 19(2), 174–181. HYPERLINK

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Hi Lindsey, I enjoyed reading your post and learning more about your emotional intelligence and

leadership skills. I see that we have two leadership skills in common achiever and

individualization. I can agree with you when you describe yourself as having a good work ethic

(achiever) because I do too. We also have similar scores in the self-awareness area which I guess

I was aware, but doing that assessment made me much more aware of how I need to pay

attention to how I do respond to certain situations and people.

While I do not know much about oncology, I know that chemotherapy is a hazardous chemical to

be exposed to. I can see that concern with the nurses not grabbing the appropriate PPE when

administering the me