| Assessment task 2: Interview and essay Task Description: Interview two nurses or midwives from any location or specialty who you consider to be leaders in the profession. (Please do not identify them in your written work unless they have given permission.) Integrate your interviews and findings from the literature to construct an essay that addresses the following question: How can leadership approaches, and a leader’s characteristics, influence practice change? Assessment criteria: 1. The extent to which the essay demonstrates understanding of the topic. 2. The demonstration of ability to access information from key stakeholders and to incorporate this as interviews into written work. 3. The extent to which appropriate literature is incorporated to support argument in a well referenced and synthesised essay. 4. The extent to which the essay is presented in a persuasive academic style and format, with citations and referencing in accordance with the Harvard 2002 system.. Standard descriptors for these criteria are included in the assessment rubric. Assessment task 2: Essay For this assignment, you will interview two nurses or midwives from any location or specialty with experience in leadership. (Please do not identify them in your written work unless they have given permission.) Integrate your findings from the literature and your interviews to construct an 2,500 word essay that addresses the following question: How can leadership approaches, and a leader’s characteristics, influence practice change? Additional Information The two people you choose to interview do not have to hold an official leadership position; they may simply be people that you perceive as leaders in their field. You may choose two people with similar leadership characteristics or styles, or prefer to compare and contrast two different leadership approaches. The marking criteria for this assignment require you to take a ‘position’ on this topic. By ‘position’, we mean the viewpoint or opinion that you are taking towards the topic you have chosen for your exploration, or the lens you have used for your critique. For example, your position might be to explain those specific professional and personal characteristics that you believe make a successful clinical leader. Or you might look at some of the leadership theories and choose to argue that one particular theory is more correct than the others. Or again, you might choose to examine the characteristics of a leader through a particular critical lens, such as feminism or Marxism, to show how these accepted characteristics have developed and who they have benefited. You will argue this position using evidence gleaned from the literature, your interviewee’s evidence, and your own experience, but the important thing is that we can hear your voice in your argument/discussion and understand your conclusions on the subject. It is also important for you to incorporate material from your interviewees to support your argument, as well as the literature. There are several ways in which quotes from your interviewees can be integrated into your written work. The document below gives some examples of how this may be done. Incorporating interviews into text Finally, please include the plan/structure/list of questions that you used for your interviews as an appendix to the essay. This will not be marked, but will serve as an indication to us of your organization and planning for this aspect of the assignment and help you to satisfy criterion 3 of the rubric more clearly without using up word count to specify questions, etc. A web conference to discuss this assignment will be held in week 5, and recorded for those who cannot attend in person. A rubric for this assignment is available here: Assignment 2 Rubric PLEASE SEE ATTACHED PDF FILES |
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