Preceptor's Education



Preceptor's Education

Introduction

Biography of Professional Experience

My first inspiration of a leader came from my sister. She has led a true example of leader in my family after death of my father. Today, she is a successful Psychiatrist and teaching at Texas A&M College of Medicine and also practicing her profession at Menninger Clinic in Texas. Its her footsteps, that I also decided to follow and worked day and night to become a good and able Nurse to help patients in recovery and support them medically and emotionally during their stay at hospital. For that purpose I pursued my bachelors degree in nursing from the Adelphi University and completed various course works as well during this time period. I started working as a Nurse at New York University Medical Center and I was placed in a mother-baby ward and after four years of consistent performance, senior management moved me to Newborn Intensive ward. It was the time, when I got this very opportunity to meet various leaders who truly inspired me and made me love my job and I also observed that this technique has a positive affect on Families and Patients as well. In the beginning I was not confident of myself that if I was ready to perform all duties and responsibilities of a nurse adequately in such a unit, which requires Intensive care of patients. In addition, I believe I had still not gained proper experience to deal with patients independently. But gradually I had the most amazing experience of my profession and picked my work very quickly and got promoted from staff nurse to a charge nurse. At this stage of my profession, I actually learned the importance of team work as I had a team of nurses under me and I was required to guide them on duty, this job role really enhanced my leadership quality and style. After gaining such enormous experience from my short time spam of work I decided to purse my degree of Masters in Nursing Administration.

Inspiration of Nursing at Work

During my professional experience, I came across a lot of senior nurses who trained me and acted like my mentors throughout the process of becoming a registered nurse. I got a chance to witness various leadership styles at work that furthermore added into my experience. I personally think that all those mentors and leadership styles actually resembled my sister's leadership style.

Discussion

Assessment of Preceptor's Leadership Style

I have come across some of the best leadership styles practiced by my senior trainers at work, which are transformational leadership style, consultative and participative leadership styles. All of these styles set a platform to promote moral practices, encourage participation and contribution, boost motivation and positivity among team members and influence them to perform well at work. These are very useful tactics for influencing team members and direct them at work. It requires leader to encourage employees and appreciate them to bring positivity and efficiency during work and in addition, it also affects patients specifically in health ...