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Transforming Health Care Through Nursing Leadership
Overview:
This course will be available until August 4, 2014.
Health care is constantly changing and evolving. Today more than ever, nurses are stepping out of their comfort zones and becoming active contributors and innovators in transforming the health care system. As front-line providers, nurses must expand their leadership capacity to engage the organization, build transdisciplinary relationships, and reconceptualize the fundamentals of nursing
practice.
ANA’s Nurses Week webinar explores and discusses both professional and personal attributes that characterize the creativity and innovation needed to lead the way in transforming the changing state of health care. Regardless of level or setting, this webinar will provide important information that contemporary clinical leaders need to deliver exceptional care in transforming environments.
Objectives:
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
1. Discuss essential leadership characteristics required for success.
2. Define attributes needed to lead care innovation.
3. Identify personal leadership skills vital for clinical leaders.
Author:
The planners of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial, professional, or personal relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity. Drs. Porter-O’Grady and Melnyk have disclosed they receive royalties from sales of books related to the topic of the activity. The content of this activity are being monitored to ensure no bias exists.
Contact Hours: 1
Expiration Date: 8/4/2014
Pharmacology Hours: 0
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National Nurse’s Week May 6th to May 12th 2014
In America, National Nurses Day is celebrated annually on May 6. It marks the beginning of National Nurses Week, which ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a pioneering English Nurse, known for improving sanitation, reducing infection and mortality rate in soldiers; she also brought dignity to their care and honor to the vocation of nursing.
She carried an oil lamp on her nightly rounds to check each person in her care, and became known as “The Lady with the Lamp”.
National Nurses Week was first observed in October 1954, the 100th anniversary of Nightingale’s mission to Crimea. May 6 was introduced as the date for the observance in 1982.
Allegedly Florence was immortalized as the “Lady with the Lamp” in this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ” Saint Philomena is a patron of the sick.
SANTA FILOMENA
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
November 1857
Whene’er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene’er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise.
The tidal wave of deeper souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares.
Honor to those whose words or deeds
Thus help us in our daily needs,
And by their overflow
Raise us from what is low!
Thus thought I, as by night I read
Of the great army of the dead,
The trenches cold and damp,
The starved and frozen camp,—
The wounded from the battle-plain,
In dreary hospitals of pain,
The cheerless corridors,
The cold and stony floors.
Lo! in that house of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room.
And slow, as in a dream of bliss,
The speechless sufferer turns to kiss
Her shadow, as it falls
Upon the darkening walls.
As if a door in heaven should be
Opened, and then closed suddenly,
The vision came and went,
The light shone was spent.
On England’s annals, through the long
Hereafter of her speech and song,
That light its rays shall cast
From portals of the past.
A lady with a lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
Nor even shall be wanting here
The palm, the lily, and the spear,
The symbols that of yore
Saint Filomena bore.