Developing Effective Nurse Leadership

Faculty
Dr. Thomas Kozlowski

Specific Objectives of the Program

• Define the how to design and implement a nurse empowered role at work
• To know that empowerment is associated with less job tension, more engagement, better outcomes, and a strong positive feeling about the nurses’ work.
• Understand what an empowered work environment looks like from the viewpoint of the nurse staffing

Learning Outcomes per Topic

• To know that to develop Nurse Empowerment will require support by nursing leadership that is “inclusive, non-authoritarian, visionary, and emotionally intelligent
• To understand that Nurse empowerment largely hinges on the infrastructure and communication design of the healthcare organization.
• Be able to design a Nursing Management structure that defines an empowering structure as one which supports “shared team governance, open nursing leadership communication, and supportive and empathetic nursing team relationships.