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Essay / Strengths and Weaknesses - 1451
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is essential to becoming and being a good leader. “Determined leaders understand who they are” (Mayfield, 2013). The author of this article has already had the opportunity to lead and will reflect on his or her experiences using the assigned inventory. She will assess her skills and discuss ways she can advocate for change within the hospital and community in which she works. Finally, she will identify a personal goal for her leadership growth and explore different avenues to achieve this goal. Personal and Professional ResponsibilityLeadership and responsibility go hand in hand. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics defines responsibility as “being responsible to oneself and others.” The author of this article has a pretty good understanding of his strengths and weaknesses and sincerely believes in people. She believes that positivity and encouragement work much better than incivility and punishment. With her career goal of returning to trauma services and becoming a trauma coordinator, the author hopes to include healthy workplace education in her future trauma prevention curriculum. She would like to use her position as trauma coordinator to reach out to employees and the community to encourage a healthy workplace. With disease processes such as hypertension, autoimmune diseases, depression, anxiety, and PTSD associated with workplace bullying (Healthy Workplace Bill [HWB], 2016), the author believes that this education is beneficial and complements trauma prevention. Additionally, she would like to bring some of the tools from the Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB), 2016 to nursing practice advisors, shared governance committees and organizational leaders. She would like bullying to be considered a never-experienced event, a bit like nosocomial infections. By employing some of the tactics proposed in the Healthy Workplaces Bill, the author of this article believes she can make a