Transformational Nursing Leaders
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Transformational Nursing Leaders (graded)
Review Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman (2012, pp. 510–515).
- Select one of the sections and share how your chief nurse executive demonstrates expertise in these competencies. Your comments should be about the “highest nursing leader” in your organization. Typically this is the leader who represents nurses and nursing to the governing board.
- In your own words, explain the differences between a transactional nursing leader and a transformational nursing leader. What one is more like your Nurse Executive?
- Describe how the Nurse Executive “leads the charge” for transformational leadership in an organization where you work or have done pre licensure clinical experiences.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Transformational Nursing Leaders
Introduction
Nursing is a profession with many opportunities, but also many challenges. There are so many ways that nurses can improve their own lives and the lives of others through their craft. In this article, I will explore some of the most transformative nursing leaders who have made an impact on the world beyond nursing through their work and lived experiences.
Mary Breckinridge, Founder and Director of the Frontier Nursing Service
Mary Breckinridge was born in 1881 and founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925. She was a nurse, midwife, social reformer and the first female dean of an American medical school. Breckinridge saw many problems in healthcare during her time as a nurse working with poor women who had no access to prenatal care or abortion services. She decided to start FNS because she believed that nurses could provide better care for these women than doctors by being able to make home visits to pregnant mothers and treating them at their homes rather than having them come into hospitals where they might have been turned away due to being too poor or uninsured.
Breckinridge’s work led her to become one of America’s most influential leaders in public health including serving on President Harry Truman’s Commission on Health Planning from 1945-1946 which helped establish Medicare and Medicaid programs along with other similar programs such as SCHIP for children (State Children’s Health Insurance Program).
Barbara Sorkin, Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive of The Joint Commission
A nurse and nursing leader, Barbara Sorkin has been involved in the American Nurses Association (ANA) for more than 25 years. She served as president of the ANA from 2004 to 2006, was elected as a member of its Board of Directors in 2007, and became vice president and chief nurse executive in 2009. She’s also held positions such as Director at Large on the American Nurses Association’s Board of Directors; Secretary-Treasurer at Large; Chairperson-at-Large Committee on Nursing Education; Member-at-Large Section on Nursing Administration & Leadership; Member-at-Large Section on Health Policy & Practice; Member Executive Committee Council for Nurse Education Policy Development; Member Council for Advancement & Support/Nursing Workforce Improvement Grants Program Grant Review Panel.
She is currently a member of several organizations including: National League for Nursing (NLN), where she serves as president emerita since 2010; American Academy of Nursing (AAN), where she served twice as president from 2003–2006 then again from 2010–2013; Institute Of Medicine (IOM).
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton was a nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was born in Massachusetts in 1821 and graduated from the first nursing school in the United States. In 1881 she received a patent for an improved liquid-air machine that could make oxygen at sea, which is still used today to help treat scuba divers with decompression sickness. She was also appointed as Chief Clerk at War Hospital #2 during the Civil War, which made her responsible for organizing medical supplies and equipment for over two hundred thousand soldiers!
Barton is perhaps best known as founder of The American National Red Cross Society (ARC), where she served as its Honorary President from 1904 until 1920 when she died at age 89!
Takeaway:
One of the most important aspects of setting goals is having a clear idea of the problem you want to solve. Why did you set this goal? What are your motivations? For example, many people decide to lose weight in order to improve their health and feel better about themselves. But if that’s true for you, then what will feeling better about yourself mean? How will you know when you’ve achieved it? If your goal is simply “lose 10 pounds,” then there’s no way for you to measure whether or not your efforts have been successful because there’s no way for someone else—or even yourself—to confirm whether or not those 10 pounds have been lost.
Instead, try defining more concretely what success looks like: maybe it means fitting back into clothes from high school; maybe it means being able to run three miles without stopping or needing a break; maybe it means feeling confident enough at work and happy with how much energy I’m expending during meetings that I don’t need an afternoon nap afterward (I know…). Whatever success looks like for YOU (and not anyone else), make sure that both yourself AND whomever else might be affected by this goal (like family members who may be supporting healthy habits) understand what exactly constitutes “success.”
Conclusion
The takeaway from these nursing leaders is that you don’t need to be a doctor to make your mark. Mary Breckinridge, Barbara Sorkin and Clara Barton all started out as nurses and went on to do great things. The point of this post was to give people hope by showing them that it’s possible for anyone to build their own legacy through hard work and dedication.
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