Discovering your strengths can lead to personal and professional development. Cope & Murray (2017) write that understanding your leadership style can also facilitate working with others of a different type. You stated that Includer and Restorative were two strengths you discovered by taking the StrengthFinders assessment. Includers make people feel included (Rath, 2007). I believe you could strengthen your ability to include others with your love for learning. You can be a mentor for new nurses. For example, when you learn something new, you can share the information with your colleagues. Sharing information can be an opportunity to include others in things you are passionate about and inspire a new interest. Broome & Murray (2017) states that transformational leaders inspire others.
Rath (2007) writes that Restorative people are problem solvers. Your love for learning allows you to be proactive when you discover that there is a better way you learned—using this skill to discuss with current leadership innovative ways to reduce incidents like the one you described with the nurse that did not recognize a reportable decline in her patient. Your knowledge, experience, and love for learning go hand in hand with problem-solving and could prove an asset to your facility and your colleagues. Nurses use their voices to improve outcomes (Karam, 2021).
References
Broome, M., & Marshall, E. S. (2017). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
Cope, V., & Murray, M. (2017). Leadership styles in nursing. Nursing Standard (2014+), 31(43), 61. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2017.e10836
Karam, S. (2021). Finding Your voice: Nursing leadership Has space for you and your goals. ONS Voice, 38(5), 12–16.
Rath, T. (2007). Strengths Finder 2.0. Gallups Press.
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