Servant Leadership
Through the University of Mary, I have come to realize that my responsibility is to serve my care givers, easing their way and elevating them simultaneously. My job is not to dictate performance and behaviors, but to inspire greatness in others for the betterment of our patients and communities.
Benedictine Values
Community
Striving together for the common good-Rule of Benedictine 33.
Moderation
Living simply with balance and gratitude- Rule of Benedictine 31.
Service
Meeting the needs of others- Rule of Benedictine 35.
University of Mary
Graduate Competencies
Communication
Graduates demonstrate excellence in communication. Students are engaging and effective communicators demonstrated by employing collaborative dialogue and adapting language to resonate with multiple audiences and/or cultures. Their communication reflects a strong command of their field(s) due to the accurate application of disciplinary standards and infusion of disciplinary frameworks and evidence into oral and written works.
Moral Courage
Graduates clarify, support, or defend what is right and true, whether reached by faith or reason, when confronted by opposing actions or viewpoints in order to serve an understanding of the truth and to promote a culture of human dignity, justice, and virtue. Students, motivated by serving truth, evaluate and respond to actions or viewpoints opposed to what is right or true. Based on faith or reason, they clarify, support, or defend truth and a culture of human dignity, justice, and virtue.
Professional Distinction
Graduates are servant leaders committed to excellence in their professions and communities. Students integrate knowledge and skills in the applicable discipline for professional service and/or contributions to society. They integrate applicable ethical principles and synthesize supporting reasons/evidence for decision-making. Students pursue the common good by prioritizing the needs of, and cultivating the growth of, others above their own circumstances and aspirations.
Scholarship
Graduates conduct research or evidence-based practice to develop degree appropriate knowledge of scholarship. Students display the skills and dispositions to effectively conduct evidence-based practice or research and produce scholarship. They develop a professional philosophy grounded in scholarship.
Communication
Throughout the program students were expected to create and present slide presentations to faculty, peers, and eventually, our capstone organizational mentors. Becoming proficient at presenting improved our communication skills tremendously.
Moral Courage
After submitting my ethical considerations paper, I learned the value of moral courage when I lost points in this area. The topic was ethically convoluted, as one would expect, and rather than being strong in taking the correct course, I argued for something more politically correct. It was a good lesson.
Professional Distinction
Reading The Servant by James C. Hunter, we were able to explore the true meaning of leadership. I came to realize that it is an altruistic path than one takes for the good of the people in their care. Being a part of the subsequent book club allowed students to come together and share all they had gleaned from the book.
Scholarship
The importance of the PICOT question was a salient pearl in Nursing 601. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking of this enterprise as something of an art in the world of scientific research. Beginning with a burning question, and practicing for days, the proper question was born.