In 2009, during the Influenza pandemic, I lead a group of 15 nurses for Vaccination campaign against influenza in my neighborhood primary Health Center. As a leader, I was responsible for creating a plan to start this campaign, ensuring that Vaccination campaign meets policies and procedures, collaborating with nursing staff and upper management in the coordination of successively and safe Vaccination campaign, monitoring and ordering vaccines and supplies. During that time, I tried to get know everyone in the team, I started conversation among the group since we were from different organizations. So we did our first meeting to discuss how we do this as a team. We spent several hours brainstorming ideas on paper, than we identified the most appropriate ideas.
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We had decided to meet on a weekly basis, however we have our daily short meeting to discuss strategies for dealing with the challenges we faced. I listen to the nurses’ ideas and suggestion since most of them have long experience as staff nurses. I always let them express their thoughts and feelings to make them feel that they are empowered. This experience provide me with an excellent opportunity to learn about nurses’ leadership. I learned that motivation, calculating risks of taking decisions, building relationship and trust are the most important things that affect any organization. Motivation help nurses preforming their best to achieve organization goal. Also I learned how to assess risks and make a decisions by using problem solving strategies that I learned in my undergraduate study. Also I learned that being a leader means to have the ability to compromise, the ability to listen well, and the ability to
We had decided to meet on a weekly basis, however we have our daily short meeting to discuss strategies for dealing with the challenges we faced. I listen to the nurses’ ideas and suggestion since most of them have long experience as staff nurses. I always let them express their thoughts and feelings to make them feel that they are empowered. This experience provide me with an excellent opportunity to learn about nurses’ leadership. I learned that motivation, calculating risks of taking decisions, building relationship and trust are the most important things that affect any organization. Motivation help nurses preforming their best to achieve organization goal. Also I learned how to assess risks and make a decisions by using problem solving strategies that I learned in my undergraduate study. Also I learned that being a leader means to have the ability to compromise, the ability to listen well, and the ability to