Week 7 Reflection: Preparation for Challenges as a Future Healthcare Leader The leadership and management case studies provided complex, realistic situations confronting health care today. Case studies afford opportunities for analyzing multidimensional problems and determining appropriate responses. These virtual experiences paralleled issues and challenged students in developing applicable strategies from the viewpoint of various leadership roles with differing views and perspectives. The purpose of this paper is to reveal insights gained throughout this course and how I will transfer the information learned to my clinical environment. I will discuss challenges revealed that I will potentially face as a future leader/manager and effective strategies identified to address complex workplace environmental issues. I will relate the value a team approach has examining and developing recommendations, preparing me for real-world experiences working in a concerted effort to address prospective workplace and or organizational issues. Finally, I will disclose how this learning experience expanded my awareness of knowledge and skills inherently possessed and those needing refinement as a manager, leader, and critical thinker. Insights/Knowledge Gained Evidence-based practice (EBP), established through research, experience, proficiencies, and patient outcomes, provides the foundation on which nurses delivers quality care in this changing health care environment (Head & Bays, 2010). Benchmarking, an essential component, necessary for quality improvement, monitors the ability to attain and maintain set goals and established credibility in the community and in health care organizations (StinerChapman & Koch, 2013). Case studies are an essential tool since they provide necessary resources to guide daily practice for the delivery of quality patient care. Incorporating EBP at 73 the administrative level practice creates an environment of informed, accountable leaders with advanced critical thinking, skills, capable of formulating valuable judgments to improve patient outcomes and raise the standard of care (Burns & Grove, 2009)
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