Nicholas Duffel
Section A
Motherly Leadership Leaders can have a direct bloodline effect on people in their lives, especially mothers. This leader in my life happens to be Laura Landreneau, my mother. My mother has been sculpted into a great leader that has also shaped the lives she has influenced. During her early years, she enlisted within the Army as a nurse stationed in Ft Sam Houston. From her first days at Basic Training, she showed her skills as a leader from leading formations to becoming her Basic Training Platoon Leader. After her years within the service, she moved onto regular practice of nursing and became a mother of three children down the road. She brings what she learned as a leader to the table of being a mother and she uses her motherly skills learned to amplify her skills as a leader. She was chosen for this paper because of how she incorporates her character within all aspects of her life, career, family, friends, and community.
Chapter 1 – The Nature and Importance of Leadership
Laura says that through her years as an experienced nurse you must be that leader to those who are new and less equipped as her self. “Experiences you share builds that rapport within the work place with both your co-workers above you and at that same level as you.” Decisions have to be made sometimes in very quick instances depending on the severity of the case. Sometimes these decisions can be life saving as a nurse. This applies to students that sometimes decisions may be hard to make even with little experience but making a decision is better than making no decision. Through her many years as a nurse she has found that she has had to uphold many roles within her profession: * Figurehead: Laura says, “Once you put on that uniform, whether it was my army uniform within the service or my scrubs to the office, you’re now categorized as an important