Monthly Archives: September 2019

I really enjoy the topic of ethics.  It was interesting to review different ethical issues in nursing and understand what should take place to present something to the ethics committee.  Before this lecture, I didn’t know much about ethics committees.  I learned how important an ethics committee is!  It seems they are under-utilized, too.   The […]

This week we were asked to interview someone in a leadership position who is responsible for performance appraisals for their employees. I chose to interview Larry Wright.  He recently retired from US Synthetic.  He was the administrator for the Safety Inspections team.  The following is a list of the questions I asked him: What criteria […]

I actually learned a lot from this unit.  I’ve never taken the time to contemplate performance appraisals from a leader’s point of view.  I realize the importance of consistency.  Also, I like how we learned the importance of explaining the criteria scale.  It’s true, we as nurses are accustomed  to feeling we have to get […]

I enjoyed the team collaboration activity this week.  It taught me a lot about a team and what it means to be a helpful participant in a team.  There were situations where I my opinion on something was different than those of my teammates.  I realized the emotions that can provoke when I am the […]

This week I used the list of questions my team and I came up with to actually interview a leader responsible for hiring employees.  I chose to interview my mother-in-law, Kathy Linebaugh, who is the owner of her family’s restaurant, Taco Amigo, located in Orem, Utah.   Here is a list of the questions I asked […]

Initially, I wasn’t that excited to learn about hiring.  I am not in a leadership position in which hiring is one of my responsibilities, so I figured, why learn about it?  However, as I started to listen to the lectures, I found the information interesting and pictured myself in a hiring position.  I also related […]

There was a lot of helpful information in this unit!  I read about qualities of leadership, took a personality test to relate it to my type of leading, discussed historical leaders with my team, and watched Ender’s Game which demonstrated a lot about a good leader.  All of these assignments/activities were great and all, but, […]