Nursing Leadership | The Basics

Nursing Leadership | THE BASICS: A “How-to” on Being An Empowered Nurse Leader

If you’ve found yourself in charge of nursing shifts or a team, yet felt like you’ve had little or no training or support, then stress follows. You can expect a comprehensive guide covering everything from the top 10 “roles” you play as a nursing leader, the soft skills you need, delegation skills, negotiation skills, leverage initiative in team members, demystify power and much, much more. This course is a hands-on guide for exactly what you need to do and the roles you’ll fulfil.  It’s the fastest way to becoming an empowered nursing leader.

I’ve been a nurse educator for nearly two decades and bring an extensive background in clinical nursing as well as nursing leadership.  I’ve lead tertiary referral, acute care hospitals with thousands of staff.  But like most new nursing leaders, I started out cloaked in self-doubt feeling like a raging fraud.  But now I’ve mastered how to be a leader that matches my integrity.  I could never be an autocratic leader, so why on earth was I trying to be one?! After a lot of trial, error and heartache, I’ve found the keys to authentic nursing leadership and I share some of my key learnings in this 5 lesson course.  !

After taking this course you will:

• • Explore styles of negotiation to identify strategies that sit well with your values

  • Define the essential “gates” of negotiation to ensure that you’re prepared for the terrain ahead

  • Identify the top 10 mistakes new team leaders make during negotiations

  • Use a model for negotiation broadly in all aspects of your life

  • Understand the power of delegation

  • Discover symptoms of pseudo-delegation and what it means for you

  • Apply changes to your thinking to alleviate clinical workload challenges

  • Use proven models to structure your delegation tactics

  • Explore styles of negotiation to identify strategies that sit well with your values

  • Define the essential “gates” of negotiation to ensure that you’re prepared for the terrain ahead

  • Identify the top 10 mistakes new team leaders make during negotiations

  • Use a model for negotiation broadly in all aspects of your life

  • Articulate your team’s goals and “microgoals”

  • Identify the advantages of leveraging initiative

  • Explore how to develop competence in a team that changes every shift

  • Explore how to empower confidence in a team that is diverse and sometimes a mismatch to the work requirements

  • Understand the six bases of power that we see in everyday lives

  • Explore ways to use each of the bases effectively and safely

  • Apply knowledge to know when to use power for good and never evil

  • Investigate A “How-To” on building expert power

Who this course is for:

• Nurses who are in leadership roles – in-charge, nurse manager, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist.

• Especially suitable for those looking for some support to nursing leadership when they’re new to the role and feeling that they’ve not had the training right for the role

• Nurses who are looking for apply for their next step in their career and feel they need some more knowledge in nursing leadership