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Nurse Shows Colleagues How to Advance Career with Leadership Training
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Posted 4 months ago Nurse Shows Colleagues How to Advance Career with Leadership Training
“Nurses have always played a large role in improving health care and the lives of others, but often had no voice. Now that the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have published strong statements on nursing’s value to health care outcomes, many organizations are taking a closer look at how they use their nursing workforce,” says Cheryl Wagner, Ph.D., MSN/MBA, RN, associate dean of graduate nursing programs at American Sentinel University. That means nurses with advanced nursing degrees, such as master’s of science in nursing (MSN) will be well-positioned for managerial roles at all levels. Cheryl Clancy was seeking a higher degree of success in her nursing career and sought her second master’s degree – an MSN in nursing management and organizational leadership from American Sentinel University – because she had a desire to unravel the core meaning and benefits that leadership skills can provide nurses. Clancy wanted to show nurses how they can advance their careers – as well as the nursing profession – with leadership perspectives, empowerment and achievement. Thanks to earning her online MSN, she was offered a director of ambulatory nursing position in Philadelphia and now has become adjunct faculty in an undergraduate nursing program that provides her the ability to teach, mentor and coach new nurses about the leadership skills needed to prepare for future readiness and change – skills that fall under the umbrella of what’s called ‘organizational development.’ “I found a way to be a nurse in the areas that I feel I can help the most. I pay that forward by providing the leadership insights for nurses to be able to do the same in their own careers,” explains Clancy. What motivates Clancy to do great work is a belief that all nurses – no matter what their specializations – should have the emotional, intellectual and hands-on organizational communication skills to have a voice at the table of change and leadership. Helping Nurses Build Credibility for Needed Changes and Improvements The reward Clancy gets from her work is to see a new generation of nurses following and developing their own paths of interest within an expanding field.
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| Posted 4 months ago Her work utilizes the skills she values as tools for new leaders: high levels of emotional intelligence, evidence-based research skills and the ability to communicate and get buy-in with colleagues, the ability to understand patient needs and graciously communicate a strong case for workplace improvements. These skills help safeguard cost effectiveness and develop new ways to achieve high quality care. “Nursing is the single biggest workforce in the hospital or health care facility and nursing leadership plays an important role for having a well-run nursing workforce that has positive impacts on budget, quality of patient care and professional achievements of nursing staff,” says Dr. Wagner. Dr. Wagner notes that nurses with an MSN in nursing leadership are positioned to fill important roles such as managers of hospitals units, directors of several hospital units and vice presidents of nursing. Other non-acute care positions include director of nursing services for long term care or intermediate care nursing centers and often, these positions encompass the entire nursing care center leadership role. The reward of Clancy’s work enables nurses to mentor each other with the emotional skill to see things from another person’s perspective. Her students learn how to create airtight cases for changes in the workplace to managers and learn how to present evidence-based research for needed improvements. Nurses with these leadership skills are acknowledged, respected and endorsed by policymakers, managers and procurement specialists – they can appeal to everyone in the chain of command who might need to understand why for instance, a more expensive product compared to a less expensive product, is causing waste in the system.
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