Professional Identity and Stewardship – Part II: Leadership Interview

Professional Identity and Stewardship – Part II: Leadership Interview

HLT – 450V

Grand Canyon University

Professional Identity and Stewardship – Part II: Leadership Interview

Professional Identity and Stewardship – Part II: Leadership Interview

My interviewee for the leadership interview described herself as the Medical Director of a National Accredited Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, who is responsible for 364 consented adult patients, one FNP, one MD, two dietitian’s, two social workers, two RN’s, one LPN, and one respiratory therapist. She also has a pulmonary practice of 650 patients. Her responsibilities are to not only see and treat patients but also make sure the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic runs smoothly and also dealing with personal issues. She multi-board certified and has been in practice for 15 years.

When asked what professionalism means to her she stated it means to put the needs over everyone else ahead of yours, wearing the proper attire to work, how you present yourself such as hygiene, body language, talking to other professionals. Being trust worthy, respectful courteous. Making sure you remember that you represent the organization so everything that you do whether while you’re at work or outside of the facility you needs to remember to represent your organization.

When asking about if she believes the administrators of the facility are stewards she said that the administrator for the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic is a steward, she helps organize everything, and she takes care of anything and everything. She makes sure things get done. However, the other administrators are not stewards they are about numbers; profits and loss, demanding that providers see more patients that they need to provide more RVUs. That doesn’t sit well with the interviewee, it takes away from the true reason she went into health care and that was to help people (patients) improve their lives by making them feel better.

“Leaders need to be authentic, if you are not authentic with your staff then in my boat how am I being authentic with my patients (T. Barto, personal communication, September 19, 2019)?” The key to leadership is mastering all of these qualities and using them effectively. IN order to be an effective leader, your staff needs to understand that for one you are authentic and that yes you can use power but not in a way that it could be detrimental to someone. Using just enough power to get your point across should be effective enough to get the task completed. Without proper leverage, leadership does not occur. Power is leverage on people whether it is as a leader or as a co-worker.

I believe when comparing my team member and leader interviews most of their answers and replies were pretty similar but also slightly different because they are coming from different viewpoints. Being a team member we tend to hold our leaders to a higher hierarchy and expect that they will be there to assist when it is needed and the same goes for a leader they should be able to rely on a team member to follow directions and complete the tasks at hand. I believe a lot can get accomplished when everyone holds respect and professionalism towards each other and also adopting the stewardship behavior, like the famous saying WWJD, What Would Jesus DO?