Leadership in Nursing Excellence

Concepts, Evidence and Interventions for Improvements

Beschrijving

Nursing and health care are highly challenged to provide excellent patient care through continuous improvements of process and outcomes. Therefore, to achieve a resilient and adaptive organization that attracts and retains highly professional and skilled nurses and midwifes becomes essential. This summer school treats concepts and evidence on organizational context of nursing practice and illustrates how US Magnet® principles were implemented in a European health care system.

Target group: Graduates, postgraduates, and professionals highly involved and interested in quality improvements and professional and institutional development active in all domains of nursing and health care: acute and chronic care, mental health care, mother and childcare, residential aged care and home care. We provide the opportunity for institutions to send a delegation of two or three motivated representatives.

Programma

Nursing and health care are highly challenged to provide excellent patient care through continuous improvements of processes and outcomes. Therefore, to achieve a resilient and adaptive organization that attracts and retains highly professional and skilled nurses and midwifes becomes essential. This summer school treats concepts and evidence on organizational context of nursing practice and illustrates how US Magnet® principles were implemented in a European health care system.

We provide 8 interactive thematic sessions with following topics:

• Leadership and strategy
• Concepts and evidence
  
• Learn, adapt and improve the Antwerp University Hospital Journey to Magnet®
• Practices and experiences in nursing excellence
  
• Team-based learning and innovation
  
• Team-based leadership and interprofessional collaboration
  
• Building up your research program
  
• Commentary and reflections
  

Opmerkingen

A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the programme to all participants who attended all classes.

Successful completion of the summer school can be awarded with 3 credits according the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Credits will be awarded on the base of completing a brief assignment before the start of the programme and submitting a paper focusing on one of the summer school topics after the programme. Particpants completing this assignment will receive a certificate of completion.

To include the credits in the curriculum at the home institution, participants need an agreement with the responsible person at the home institution.