A concept map development: articulation of the alignment between relational nurse leadership & team building strategies in order to support RN team leader practice
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2015-05-25
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Vording, Nancy
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Canadian RNs have recently been faced with the new challenge of being removed from the bedside in order to fulfill the position of team leader. However, as the majority of frontline RNs may not be equipped with the skills, traits, or abilities necessary to execute such a role (Eddy et al., 2009; Heller et al., 2004; Pate, 2013), this MN project was undertaken as a way to help me grasp how the skills, traits, and abilities promoted within some relational nurse leadership works and within some team building tools and strategies, aligned with one another. In order to uncover alignment between these two areas, I employed Novak and Gowin’s (1984) systematic concept mapping methodology as a way to develop two concept maps that explicitly articulated the skills, traits, and abilities endorsed within the resources reviewed on relational nurse leadership and team building. Then, the theory of the relational work of nurses (Terrizzi DeFrino, 2009) was enlisted as a way to help me analyze how the skills depicted on my two maps aligned and reflected the three main theoretical assertions described by Terrizzi DeFrino (2009). In doing this, I was able to locate nine main aligning skill sets that were then illustrated within a visual spider map (All, Huycke & Fisher, 2003). I believe that this spider map could one day be used or tailored by hospital nurse leaders, clinicians, or educators as a way to help inform or guide RN team leaders for their new practice roles.
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RN team leaders, bedside care teams, relational nurse leadership, team building tools and strategies, concept maps