Rules, Examples and Principles

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Any student can reflect on their training and agree that they will not be content with just ingesting the teacher's theories, taking diligent notes, and devouring textbooks to learn a subject in the course of study. The same student will be unable to be content with lab practicums, experiments, and the rigors of the physical and biological sciences laboratory. When clinical learning is encountered, the same student will not be content. However, it is necessary for validation and guidance, and will need to move past the mentor who is closely monitoring nearby as patients are seen, assessed, and cared for. No, by all means, the final stage in the learning process comes from the most outstanding teacher called life experience (Temple, 1860, p. 22). Until then, the learning is incomplete, and expertise must be grasped and balanced so that the nurse is complete and able to mature and grow in delivering the best therapies, helping patients restore and recover during the healing process.

The exact process nursing students navigate to become competent professionals through schooling, clinical experience, and licensed practitioners is the same for those navigating leadership roles. It's not enough to read leadership articles, attend leadership courses, or sit at the feet of one's mentor or coach, although it is helpful. Until the person in the role, when left to their own devices, must navigate through trial and error, with success and failure, in the laboratory of life experience, does the person of leadership finally learn how to influence, make a difference, and serve others? However, the role of leadership and the daily practicum never ends in a capstone; the continuous improvement process guides the leader. It is a source of encouragement to remind them to maintain the course.

Reference:

Temple, F. (1860). The Education of the World. In J. W. Parker, Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Genève; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture (pp. 1–31). Retrieved from https://ccel.org/.