Inspiring nursing's spirit: a leadership challenge for nurse educators.

Nursing students in an expanded charge nurse role: a real clinical management experience.

Ensuring that baccalaureate nursing students obtain a measure of management and leadership proficiency is a challenge for nurse educators. Having senior students manage juniors in a clinical course modeled in a peer hierarchal pattern that emulates advanced beginner practice is a creative approach that is both realistic and achievable. Through specific learning experiences, students are exposed...

Running head: INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP AND RETENTION 1 Inspiring Innovative Leadership Behaviors to Improve Emergency Department Nurse Retention

A service-learning project facilitating leadership and management skills.

Nursing practice requires baccalaureate nursing graduates to possess strong leadership and management skills. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008) stated that: Leadership skills are needed that emphasize ethical and critical decisionmaking, initiating and maintaining effective working relationships, using mutually respectful communication and collaboration within interprofessi...

Inspiring and Equipping Students to Be Ethical Leaders.

This chapter describes the behaviors of the ethical leader and explores the reasons why leaders do not always act ethically. The chapter also offers five recommendations to help educators integrate the practices of ethical leadership into their work with student leaders.

Creating organizational conditions that foster employee spirit at work

Purpose – This study sought to identify organizational factors that foster an individual’s experience of spirit at work. Design/methodology/approach – Ten women and three men, ranging in age from 26 to 81, who were in full-time paid employment in a variety of occupations, and who self-identified as having high spirit at work, participated in in-depth, reflective interviews. Findings – Inspired ...