Comparing and Contrasting of the Two Interviews

Roles

The peer I interviewed indicated she served as a surgical nurse. Her position as surgical nurse required a lot of collaboration with the surgery team. On the other the leader I interviewed was a nurse manager in an emergency unit with main roles being in the supervision of the nursing team. From both interviews it was clear that both played an important role in ensuring the creation of safe and health environments where the rest the team could carry out their duties despite doing so in different capacities.

Effects of Professionalism  

The nurse manager defined professionalism as the adherence to a set of attitudes and behavior that are deemed as appropriate for a specific position. In the other hand, the surgical nurse viewed professionalism ensuring the performance of duties with the required skills and accepted competence. The nurse manager indicates that professionalism affects her performance as she is required to ensure that the team offers competent, safe, and ethical care to the patients and at the same time handle the high levels of stress in the emergency unit. She indicated that she requires her team to ensure strict adherence of principles and regulations for successful clinical practice. On the other hand, the surgical nurse pointed out that the need of having professionalism sees her carry out her duties with discipline and composure.

Stewards

Both the nurse manager and the surgical nurse indicated that the leader in their organization could be considered as stewards. Being a leader, the nurse manager indicates that she was required to influence on the meaningful change in the nursing practice. This was a common practice for the leaders in various positions. The surgical nurse also had similar views that the leaders influenced meaningful change in the organization as their positions required capacity to act in character qualities.

Professional advocacy and Authenticity in leaders

Both the nurse manager and the surgical nurse indicated that it was important for the leaders to exercise professional advocacy and authenticity as well as exercise power and influence over the colleagues. However the two differed on how the approach the leaders could use to achieve this. The nurse manager indicated that this trait was common in inspirational leaders while the surgical nurse believed that this was common in leaders with transformational leadership traits. 

Conclusion

From the interviews, it became clear to me that health care professionals acting in whatever capacity had a huge role in ensuring the creation of conducive work environment where the patient could receive safe healthcare. It also became clear on the need of healthcare practitioners to carrying out their duties with professionalism and ensure adherence to the set standards. It seems that leaders in the healthcare setting are highly regarded have a  huge role in ensuring the safe and healthy care for the patients