Overview: Organizational Analysis The Nurse Leader
The major assignment for this course is analysis of your organization. In this assignment, you will analyze your nurse leaders characteristics and behaviors regarding others in managing, leading, and communicating. By respectfully, but critically, critiquing these attributes of the nurse leader you have been shadowing, you can identify the attributes that you consider most and least effective, and most and least similar to the way you see yourself managing, leading, and communicating.
Complete this document to record your analysis of your nurse leader.
Objectives
Explain how organizations function.
Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.
Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.
Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations
Expected elements of scholarly writing:
Ensure correct grammar and spelling
Assignment should be submitted as an APA Paper, including title page and references.
Title page is required for this Assignment and the UTACON version is expected format.
1-inch margins, 12 size Times New Roman font.
Please provide all references used to support your opinions and clarify positions in the paper. The reference list begins on a separate page from the content.
Headings are expected and must be connected to the assignment criteria following APA style. An introduction is expected providing a brief look at what is planned within the body of the paper. However, no heading is used over the introduction in APA format. A Summary is used and should have a heading over it.
For all other style questions refer to the American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) Washington, DC: Author.