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Module 1: Theories and Styles of Leadership

• Critically analyze one leadership situation

• List environmental and organizational trends
• Describe four leadership theories
• Differentiate transformational leadership from authentic leadership
• Describe two leadership theories that are especially important to nursing
• Assess your own transformational and authentic leadership qualities
• Discuss an emerging view of leadership
• Evaluate your own ability to be an adaptable leader
• Apply leadership theories to a simulated clinical setting

Module 2: Theories and Styles of Management

• Critically analyze one management situation
• Describe the relationship between leadership and management
• Describe four management theories that can be applied to nursing
• Assess your own management qualities
• Identify management values and beliefs
• Simulate conveying an unpopular decision to staff
• Develop a personal philosophy of management
• Join an online nursing support group
• Interview two staff members about how their organization could be improved
• Participate in an in-class simulation to help employees achieve a bal­ance between work and family life

Part II: Basic Skills to Creatively Lead and Manage

Module 3: Role Transitioning

• Critically analyze one role transitioning situation
• List the assumptions of role theory
• Describe four paths to nursing leadership/management
• Identify ways a nurse can transition to a leadership role

Module 4: Managing Stress

• Explain the nature of stress at work
• Describe the health consequences of stressful work
• Explain how to use hardiness theory to reduce stress
• List three ways to use Bandura’s self-efficacy theory to reduce stress
• Try out different stress reduction measures

Module 5: Managing Time

• Analyze one nurse leader’s time management skills
• Assess whether you exhibit characteristics of hurry sickness and time urgency
• Identify inappropriate time management procedures and time traps
• Apply the steps of effective time management
• State two short-term and two long-term time management goals
• Develop two top-drawer and two bottom-drawer goals
• Break two long-term goals into manageable steps
• Apply approaches to overcoming procrastination
• Use at least four different ways to “make” time

Module 6: Critical Thinking

• Explain what critical-thinking skills are
• Describe the relationship between critical-thinking skills, problem solving, and decision making
• Discuss the research on evaluating critical-thinking skills
• Choose appropriate action for two critical-thinking situations
• Identify the steps in the problem-solving process
• Develop three high-level critical-thinking questions
• Identify problem-solving assumptions
• Construct a design or system model
• Construct a structural or recipe model

Module 7: Communicating Effectively

• List ingredients of effective interpersonal communication
• Identify ways to use emotional intelligence to communicate with others
• Discuss three ways to enhance support during nurses’ intershift reports
• Describe strategies that are effective for communicating with various generations in the workforce
• Identify ways to enhance collaborative communication with physicians
• Describe group communication methods

Module 8: Managing Conflict

• Define conflict
• Compare and contrast conflict resolution models
• Analyze one example of nursing conflict
• Examine the concept of conflict in nursing work environments
• Identify sources of generational conflict
• Assess your conflict resolution skills
• Facilitate the development of conflict resolution skills in your staff

Module 9: Delegating

• Define delegation
• Discuss changes in healthcare delivery that make task delegation important
• Identify the essential elements of effective delegation
• Determine whether state law and facility policies permit the delegation of a specific task
• Decide when delegation is appropriate
• Discuss the procedure for delegating tasks to assistive personnel
• Analyze nursing delegation actions

Module 10: Acting Legally, Ethically, and Politically

• Discuss legal issues that impact nurse leaders
• Describe the relationship between legal, ethical, and political issues
• Discuss legal issues that impact the nursing profession
• Debate ethical issues affecting nursing practice

Part III: Advanced Skills to Creatively Lead and Manage

Module 11: Motivating and Team Building

• Discuss three motivational theories
• Apply motivational theories to specific nursing situations
• Describe nursing research on motivation
• Discuss stages of team development

Module 12: Budgeting and Managing Resources

• List the financial/budget competencies required of nurse leaders
• Read a financial statement
• Develop a business plan
• Describe the budgeting process
• Apply budgeting principles to Leadership in Action vignettes
• Discuss the principles of three different types of budgets

Module 13: Demonstrating Effectiveness and Quality Care

• Discuss the National Healthcare Quality Report
• Describe uses for the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators
• Give examples of healthcare outcomes research
• Describe uses of the Health Care Report Card Compendium
• Discuss how to use patient registries to determine healthcare effectiveness
• Describe disparities in healthcare provision
• Discuss the benchmarking process
• Describe client evaluations of the health care they received
• Apply healthcare effectiveness principles to Leadership in Action vignettes
• Discuss the pros and cons of Magnet hospital accreditation and its relationship to healthcare effectiveness

Module 14: Managing Change and Innovation

• Explain the nature of change in nursing
• Discuss planned-change theories and their relevance to nursing
• Assess your change agent capabilities
• Try out different change theory measures
• Discuss methods for dealing with resistance to change
• List innovation strategies

Module 15: Using Information Technology

• Describe the importance of information technology to the transformation of health care
• Discuss the relationship between evidence-based practice and nurs­ing informatics
• Explain why clinician input is necessary for system selection and implementation
• Discuss the advantages of electronic health records
• Describe how to optimize clinical use of handheld technology
• Analyze seven strategies for managing technological change and involving staff in the process

Part IV: Creatively Managing Human Resources

Module 16: Staffing and Nurse Retention

• Describe the relationship between the nursing shortage and staffing
• Discuss the relationship between quality of care and staffing
• Debate the cost-effectiveness of staffing ratios
• Analyze the staffing needs of one unit
• Discuss critical issues in retaining nurses
• Discuss nursing theories that explain nurse retention

Module 17: Recruiting and Interviewing

• Describe the process of recruitment
• Discuss the practice of conducting regular employee satisfaction surveys as a recruitment approach
• Debate the use of staff nurses’ cars for recruitment
• Discuss steps in recruiting and retaining top-level staff
• Describe basic measures used to judge recruitment efforts
• Analyze the interview process

Module 18: Establishing a Healthy Environment

• Describe physical factors that make for a healthy environment
• Discuss the hallmarks of a healthy, professional nursing practice environment
• Describe how authentic leaders create a healthy work environment
• Analyze how employee engagement relates to a healthy working environment

Module 19: Developing Staff

• Describe the elements in developing effective learning systems
• Discuss the developmental needs of new RNs
• Describe how a novice leader program develops new RNs
• Discuss research that details how nurse executives prepare new nurse leaders
• Analyze why training in computers and electronic resources should be part of staff development efforts
• Discuss the importance of developing nurse practitioners’ leadership skills
• Describe the LEAD Project for minority nurses
• Discuss the work of leadership development coordinators
• Analyze failure disclosure as a way to develop leaders

Module 20: Evaluating Staff Performance and Ensuring Quality

• Try out performance appraisal approaches
• Discuss the use of simulations to improve performance leadership
• Describe a clinical practice development model to measure nursing practice
• Analyze nursing situations that can affect quality of care

Module 21: Coaching and Mentoring

• Discuss the difference between coaching and mentoring
• Describe coaching interventions with staff nurses
• Discuss Kramer’s reality shock theory and its relationship to coaching and mentoring

Module 22: Reducing Workplace Violence

• Discuss the statistics on workplace violence
• Describe environmental designs that can reduce workplace violence
• Analyze administrative controls to reduce workplace violence
• Discuss how to respond to an immediate threat of workplace violence
• Describe suggested ways to deal with the consequences of workplace violence
• Discuss measures nurses can use and teach staff to use to reduce workplace violence

Module 23: Succession Planning

• Describe the challenges of succession planning
• Discuss the statistics on succession planning
• Describe different perspectives on succession planning
• Analyze strategies and tactics for effective succession planning