Identify the main principles of ethical leadership within your field of practice (nursing, health administration, or public health). Cite your sources.
Self-Assessment Format and APA Style
- Use the APA Paper template, linked in the Resources, to draft your self-assessment. An abstract is not required.
- Your self-assessment should be 5–7 double-spaced pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.
- Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
- Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Note: Because this assessment requires you to develop a leadership self-assessment, you may write using first-person voice.
Self-Assessment Content
- Analyze your leadership strengths and weaknesses.
- Identify at least one leadership theory or style that you believe best aligns with your own thoughts of what leadership means.
- Use that theory or style in your analysis. Cite your sources.
- Consider potential biases or underlying assumptions in your analysis.
- Explain how specific leadership characteristics you already possess will enable you to guide, educate, inform, and influence others to manage change in the field of health care.
- Consider examples of past successes.
- Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
- Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area.
- Explain how your leadership characteristics will serve to help you build and maintain collaborative relationships across, and within, disciplines.
- Consider examples of past successes.
- Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
- Describe at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop to enhance your effectiveness in this area.
- Explain how you can best apply the principles of ethical leadership, given your leadership style.
- Identify the main principles of ethical leadership within your field of practice (nursing, health administration, or public health). Cite your sources.
- Consider examples of past successes.
- Consider strategies or best practices that could be applied to improve outcomes.
- Where do you have room to grow in this area?
- How can you prepare yourself to do so?
- Explain why diversity and inclusion are important to employee relations and the provision of safe, high-quality health care.
- Provide an example you have experienced or read about. Cite your sources.
- Explain how your leadership characteristics prepare you to develop and lead a diverse team of employees and serve a diverse community within an ethical framework.
- In what ways can you address issues of diversity and inclusion, both within an organization and in serving the public?
- Explain how research skills and critical thinking guide effective decision making and foster integrity in research and professional practice.