Nurse leadership is an essential ability for healthcare professionals that improves cooperative work to achieve common goals. It is accompanied by developing necessary qualities for the job: compassion, integrity, communication, emotional intelligence, respect, team-building, and open-mindedness. The authoritative and confident medical professionals obtain an eight-week course dedicated to revealing their passion for caring for patients, improving necessary behaviors, and positively impacting the healthcare world.
Every week the nurse studies material and practices on patients to enhance the effectiveness of the medicine. During the first week, professionals focus on the significant core competency, patient-centered care (Finkelman, 2019). No wonder, nurses work with patients from different backgrounds who demand high-quality care. Thus, nurses learn to identify and respect patients’ differences, values, and preferences when helping them. Each trainee works with two patients and tries to justify treatment with a person’s individuality. Finally, the nurse situates himself in a patient-centered organization, engaging in dialogue with the patient.
The following week, nurses learn to develop positivity towards their work through the Appreciative Inquiry education model. This model discovers the positive potential of organizations and develops it. Nurses are asked to design a perfect workplace, hospital, or community. They work on an appreciative mindset for how positive leadership might operate in different contexts within healthcare (Waterworth & Jacobs, 2021). They aim to move from inconclusive attempts to correct things to focus on positive outcomes. Thus, AI teaches them to reflect on decisions and stimulate their work.
With their round-the-clock care, nurses should also have mental health therapies to heal after work. The third week of the course concentrates on teaching nurses how to relieve their stress. As a report by the International Centre on Nurse Migration figures out, many nurses have heavy workloads (Raso et al., 2022). Consequently, they experience stress and burnout. Moreover, the fact that they were at higher risk of being infected with COVID-19 is also stressful. Thus, after completing this week’s tasks, they are expected to learn to relax after long-term workloads.
Nurses in the healthcare system must constantly reinforce knowledge about medications and treatments. In the following two weeks, they briefly but clearly, analyze all the systems in the body, their connection, and the treatment of each disease. Primarily, they pay attention to urgent cases, such as global pandemics. As a result of these lessons, they refresh empirical knowledge that will help them during accreditation. They pass the test, including diagnosis and planning, to evaluate their progress.
The goal of the next two weeks is to enhance team care for the patients and teach nurses to transmit knowledge. For example, they train nursing assistants for walking rounds during shift change and demonstrate their knowledge of a simulated patient (Bakerjian, 2022). It strengthens the role of a nurse as a medical leader in developing the healthcare system. A nursing assistant, his mentee, rates each professional’s work.
In the final stage, nurses share their experiences with patients. They accurately explain their diseases and encourage the person in their treatment. Improving nurse-patient dialogue to share knowledge and promote healthcare in the community is essential. If a patient starts to communicate with professionals in an open manner easily, then the nurse achieves his goal of team-building and communication. This process checks the nurse’s understanding of the course and increases the patient’s acceptance.
During the eight-week course, nurses improve their roles as counselors, managers, educators, providers of care, and researchers. They expand their medical knowledge, engage in a constructive dialogue with patients, and pass through mental health therapies. Their work is evaluated by peers, patients, and mentees. Moreover, they complete the tests to show a comprehensive understanding of the course. This eight-week course significantly improves the healthcare system through the highly prepared nurse leaders.
References
Bakerjian, D. (2022). The advanced practice registered nurse leadership role in nursing homes: leading efforts toward high quality and safe care.Nursing Clinics of North America, 57(2), 245–258.
Finkelman, A. (2019). Professional nursing concepts: Competencies for quality leadership (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Raso, R., Fitzpatrick, J. J., & Masick, K. (2022). Perceptions of US nurses and nurse leaders on authentic nurse leadership, healthy work environment, intent to leave and nurse well-being during a second pandemic year: A cross sectional study. Journal of Nursing Management.
Waterworth, S., & Jacobs, S. (2021). Integrating appreciative inquiry into a postgraduate nurse leadership curriculum: creating a student experience.AI Practitioner, 23(4), 73–79.