Nursing and Politics
Do you have nurses who feel powerless and dominated by physicians and their hospital administration? Do you have nurses who feel that politics is not their cup of tea? I work with nurses to help them claim their power and exercise their leadership skills.
Ask yourself these questions:
- Do you have nurses that work hard but feel they have unfulfilled potential?
- Do you have nurses who want to claim their power but don't know how?
- Do you have nurses that create meaningless conflict within their own ranks?
- Do you have nurses that find it hard to reach out to other departments and create collaborative relationships?
Coaching Story
When I started with a nurse in a local hospital, she had allegations of verbal harassment from her team members and the H.R. Director and CEO wanted her gone. I worked with this nurse over a nine-month period, focusing on her political skills. Together we worked on positioning her ideas favorably with her team, with the HR Director and with the CEO. We worked on transforming negative views from physicians, her team, and the executive team to positive views. The work paid off and now she has been promoted to the Chief Nursing Officer of another hospital.
Process for Creating a Nursing Leadership Course:
- Nursing Leadership Course -- The course is built around a nursing leadership model and incorporates all aspects of effetive adult learning - experiential, reflective, transformative and diretly applicable to the work of an everyday nurse.
- Revise Course to Fit Client Needs -- I work with the nursing leader to revise the content to fit their individual development needs
- Pilot the Course -- Pilot the course to understand the flow, how the interactive exercises work and how participants will apply the lessons.
- Implement the Course -- Take the course and begin to implement it across the leadership
