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Nursing Diagnosis & Midwifery 2018

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Journal of Nursing and Health Studies

ISSN: 2574-2825

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Nursing Diagnosis &

Midwifery

egistered Nurses are responsible and accountable for meeting their

professional standards and competencies. It ismandatory inSaskatchewan,

Canada each year for RNs to review the standards and competencies

and reflect on how they meet the competencies. RNs must demonstrate

professional leadership by: building relationships and trust; creating an

empowering environment, supporting knowledge development and integration

within the health care team, leading and sustaining change; and balancing

competing values and priorities. The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

(RNAO), Canada has developed many clinical best practices guidelines and

Health Work Environment (HWE) Best Practice Guidelines (BPG). One of the

RNAO HWE BPGs is called Developing and Sustaining Nursing Leadership

(2013). This BPG addresses each of the leadership competencies and gives

individual examples of how nurses can meet these competencies. The BPGs

are based on evidence and give recommendations for individuals, educational

programs, organizations and governments, but this presentation will focus

on the individual and team strategies that are recommended based on the

evidence. This presentation will give an overview of the guideline and the

recommendations for implementation. Participants will leave with some

concrete examples of how they can demonstrate professional leadership and

enhance their own practice.

Biography

Karen Eisler has been a RN for over 40 years. She has worked as

a clinical RN for 20 years in ICU and Emergency in an acute care

hospital in Regina and for 20 years primarily in Administrative

positions. The most recent was as the Executive Director of the

Saskatchewan Registered Nurses’ Association. Her Master’s

thesis and Doctoral research was in Nursing Leadership. The

results indicated that managers’ use of transformational

leadership practices can affect the staff nurses’ perception of

the quality of patient care on a unit. Her research interest is

in Nursing Leadership related to patient and staff outcomes,

quality workplaces and provincial and national nursing

regulation.

YOU are a Leader!

Karen Eisler

University of Regina, Canada

Karen Eisler, J Nurs Health Stud 2018 Volume: 3

DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C4-011