WGU C493: Applied Leadership Portfolio 2021

Western Governors University C493: Applied Leadership Portfolio 2021 Applied Leadership E1a. Importance of Professional Collaboration Leadership requires professional collaboration between all members of the healthcare team. In order to be an effective leader you must collaborate with other members of your team. Making process changes within a facility takes the work of the whole team working together and not just one individual. During my Leadership Experience Hand Hygiene project I collaborated with my administrator and lead community health nurse regarding our current hand hygiene practices not being evidence based. I provided the current hand hygiene evidence based research and the CDC hand hygiene guidelines for healthcare workers and compared these to how we are currently practicing within our facility. By collaborating with my administrator and lead nurse we were able to develop a plan to change our current process to meet CDC guidelines and evidence based research. We also collaborated with other employees’ within the facility to get their input on the situation and brainstorm ideas and ways to improve our practice. I have never had any leadership roles until I recently took on another role of Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Supervisor. In this role I am to supervise our breastfeeding peer counselor at the Health Department. In order for me to be an effective leader I must collaborate with the breastfeeding peer counselor and discuss how she feels things are going when working with her clientele as I am not in the room when she meets with her clients. In order for me to see how she feels her process is going