Nurse Leadership Presence
The ability to manage, understand, and use emotion positively is referred to as emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helps relieve stress, communicate effectively, and to have empathy for others. In the nursing profession, emotional intelligence is essential for nurses to deliver high-quality services to their clients. Emotional intelligence helps nurses offer patient-centered services. In most films and television shows, nursing is not considered an essential profession because of how they portray nursing characters. The nurses are not described as heroic and compassionate people. The essay discusses how emotional intelligence in nurses is displayed in the movie “Fragile.”
Emotional Intelligence Features Portrayed by a Selected Nurse
The “Fragile” film portrays a caring nurse archetype where Army Nicholls displays a nurse’s role from a degraded, understaffed, and haunted healthcare setting. The film focuses on a woman working in a healthcare facility as a nurse, where there is a patient by the name of Charlotte (Balagueró, 2005). Charlotte died in one of the wards in the hospital but kept on haunting children from the healthcare facility resulting in severe accidents for the most critically ill clients. Army Nicholls, the nurse in the hospital, tries to find the root cause of the accident and provide the needed assistance to the clients under her care. The circumstance is very horrific and threatening, but the nurse Army Nicholls works tirelessly to determine the accident’s root cause and assist the patients under her care.
Nicholls portrays emotional intelligence, such as self-regulation and self-awareness, displayed in how the nurse works 24 hours and in an unfriendly environment to help the affected patients through the confidence she has. The nurse is self-regulated, despite what is happening in the hospital, but still, she is ready to help the patients. The nurse lacks motivation in her work and social skills, which is seen in how she interacts with her peers.
How to Support the Nurse Growth?
As an agent for change, I will use my experience and skills to facilitate an individual’s development and growth. By focusing on motivational agents and social skills, the first action will be to form a teamwork that will ensure collaboration and cooperation between the nurse and interact freely to share ideas. Collaboration and teamwork are essential among the nurse because they will make sure that nurses share their opinions and make the best decisions (Hanrahan et al., 2015). The process will enhance social skills, which will promote emotional intelligence among the nurses. Renovation of the wards will be my priority because of the bad conditions they are in, and renovation will motivate the nurses because of the friendly environment nurses will be working in without any form of threat. Additional nursing staff will be necessary to reduce the workload of the available nurses, and more nurses will reduce burnout and fatigue to the available nurses. Nurse Army Nicholls lacks motivation at work and has poor social skills. As an agent for the change, I will make sure that Nicholls is motivated while improving her social skills with fellow nurses.
Impacts of Chaos Theory on the Organization of the Nurse
The impacts of Chaos theory are experienced in the nurse organization through the demons that bring trouble to the children in the healthcare facility, resulting in critically ill patients’ accidents. The situation is complicated to control because some things happen which are considered non-existence (Ozturk & Kizilkaya, 2017). The theory of chaos has been displayed in the healthcare setting because the haunting happening is not predicted. The problem results from decaying, disorganization, and understaffing in the healthcare setting.
References
Balagueró, J. (Director). (2005). Fragile [Motion Picture].
Hanrahan, K., Wagner, M., Matthews, G., Stewart, S., Dawson, C., Greiner, J., & Williamson, A. (2015). Sacred cow gone to pasture: A systematic evaluation and integration of evidence-based practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 12(1), 3-11.
Ozturk, Z. Z., & Kizilkaya, S. K. (2017). Chaos-complexity theory at management. International Online Journal of Education & Teaching, 4, 259-264.