Effective Leadership Reflection

Effective leaders
Introduction
This is a reflective essay about my experiences as a nursing student whilst on my six weeks’ placement with Community Treatment and recovery team. The purpose of this essay is to examine the use of SWOT analysis to identify weakness and strength in order to make improvement on the care we deliver in clinical practice. I chose this exact issue as I spent a significant amount of time using my communication and interpersonal skills to build trusted and clinical relationship with many patients. In other to protect the identity of the placement provider and maintain confidentiality for the patients, I will refer to my placement providers as ‘East and West Mental Health Trust, Community Treatment and recovery team,
KATH and Pearse (2007) are of the opinion that using SWOT Analysis is a good way to do this. In planning my SWOT analysis process I started by setting up a clear goal and objective. These goals were set using the principals of SMART and ensuring that all key stakeholders that are relevant to my archiving these goals fully participated. The path to becoming a nurse, can involve sharing feelings and asking for support and finding ways to handle emotions (Jarvis and Gibson, 2001). Using the SWOT analysis framework, I was able to identify the
By utilizing my good communication and interpersonal skills, I was able to demonstrate to them that I had the right attitude and kindness to understand their individual care needs. I was able to communicate compassion by showing empathy, respect and dignity to my patients. My competence was evident by being consistent with high level of care they received from me. Understanding that good communications skills is the keys for developing therapeutic relationships with patients, I communicated with them according to their individual needs, in clear and effective