Continuing Education Web Course

Nurse Leadership Series

Target audience: Nurses in a leadership and management role, charge nurses, supervisors and aspiring leaders

KBN Numbers: 3-0008-01-13-057-060

Contact Hours: 1.2 KBN and 1.0 ANCC each

Cost: $15.00 each

Requirement for Credit: Participants must complete the content online, take the post-test and evaluation, then print their certificate of completion.
 

Expiration Date: June 30, 2010

Mentoring for Leadership Competencies
Purpose:  Provide an overview of the advantages of mentors for employers and staff.  

Objectives:
- Describe a mentor.
- Review responsibilities of the mentor.
- Discuss the advantages of being a mentor.
- Describe benefits to the employer for providing mentors.

Faculty: Karen Hill, MSN, RN, NEA, BC, FACHE, vice president/nurse executive, Central Baptist Hospital, Lexington, Ky.

Disclosure: Karen Hill, MSN, RN, NEA, BC, FACHE, has nothing to disclose.

Wisdom At Work: “The Importance of  the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace”
Purpose:  Discuss the role of the nurse executive in the recruitment and retention of the seasoned nurse.

Objectives:
- Identify the characteristics and opinions of the seasoned nurse who is likely to remain in the workforce.
- List best practice suggestions to improve the retention of experienced nurses in hospitals.
- Discuss the role of the nurse executive in the recruitment and retention of the seasoned nurse.

Faculty: Karen Hill, MSN, RN, NEA, BC, FACHE, vice president/nurse executive, Central Baptist Hospital, Lexington, Ky.

Disclosure: Karen Hill, MSN, RN, NEA, BC, FACHE, has nothing to disclose.
 

Nursing Leadership in an Integrated Multi-Hospital System

Purpose:  Describe nursing leadership within an integrated multi-hospital system.

Objectives:
- Discuss nursing leadership within an integrated multi-hospital system.
- Illustrate Saint Joseph Healthcare's integrated nursing department’s evolution and current structure
 

Faculty: Chris Mays, MSN, RN, vice president, patient care services, chief nursing officer, Saint Joseph Hospital, Lexington, Ky.

Disclosure: Chris Mays, MSN, RN, has nothing to disclose.
 

Appreciative Inquiry as a Leadership Strategy

Purpose: Explain the use of appreciative inquiry as a leadership strategy.

Objectives:
- Explain appreciative inquiry.
- Utilize appreciative inquiry as a leadership strategy.
 

Faculty: Karen Stefaniak, PhD, RN, assistant professor for the University of Kentucky College of Nursing.  Stefaniak is the former chief nursing officer/associate hospital director and assistant dean for clinical affairs at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital (2001-2008), Lexington, Ky.

Disclosure: Karen Stefaniak, PhD, RN, has nothing to disclose.

Contact: Melissa Bolin (859) 323-3851 or melissa.bolin@uky.edu