Personal Plan for Innovation and Leadership in the DNP Role

Topic: Personal Plan for Innovation and Leadership in the DNP Role
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Healthcare in our society today is branded with a number of environmental changes that are unpredictable. Some of the changes include an increased speed of information and knowledge exchange, teamwork, interdisciplinary collaboration and redefined organizational boundaries. As a result of these increasing advancements, nurse educators have had to redefine nursing leadership. The educators are now preparing Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) leader through these innovative courses that offer experimental learning founded on the basis of complex adaptive system and quantum leadership theories CITATION Kat11 \l 1033 (Kathryn Lothschuetz PhD, 2011).
The program is usually challenging at first and the students struggle to get to learn the new approaches of the new software and tools. Students are also challenged to demonstrate their way of thinking through a multidimensional and highly interactive mind map, this requires an individual who is always ready to learn new things and acquire the new skill. Along the way, the students are helped past the hurdles by support from peers and the faculties CITATION Wal06 \l 1033 (Wallin L, 2006). This combined contribution results to clarity in presentation of student’s skills development and learning practice. The student, therefore, ought to be with a positive personality and friendly, welcoming new ideas and appreciative of those around him/her. The mind map eventually becomes the representation of the students’ progress and to understanding of the complex system, and the ideal leadership skills required in steering through a complex adaptive system CITATION Wal06 \l 1033 (Wallin L, 2006). Through the DNP, a nurse gets to realize that the capacity to lead does not come by hereditary nor position. The DNP ...