Nurse Manager Leadership Development
Overview
High-quality health care begins with nurses. Knowledgeable, skilled, compassionate – they are the backbone of our health care system. Colorado’s health care system is subject to intense pressures: aging demographics, shorter stays by more acutely ill patients, fewer levels of management, an increasing percentage of new graduates, an aging workforce, increasingly strong mandates for improved quality of patient care, and ever-rising pressures for cost reduction. This initiative focuses on teaching frontline leaders techniques and tools for leading quality improvement projects that will be critical to the improvement of patient care outcomes.
Project Plan
Through coursework and continued coaching, this program builds the nurse leader’s capacity to lead and support quality initiatives to achieve improvement in health care quality performance. The course prepares nurses to support quality-focused initiatives using a set of defined skills not currently available to many nurse leaders . Built into the program for nurse leaders is an organized system of support by qualified coaches, primarily in senior administrative roles; this ongoing coaching is essential to stabilize and make permanent the desired changes in quality improvement.
Anticipated Outcomes
1. Over a three year period, increase a defined skill set of 250 frontline nurse leaders in the implementation of unit-based quality initiatives.
2. Educate at least 30-50 coaches per year in how to provide their frontline leaders with coaching support over a 6-8 month period that will facilitate nurse leader skills development and the implementation of their selected quality initiative.
3. Improve by 10% the nurse-sensitive quality indicators identified by the frontline nurse-leaders for their quality improvement project.
Collaborative Partners
Partner organizations volunteer to participate in the project. Healthcare facilities and have already participated in year one, two, and three of the Center’s Frontline Nurse Leadership & Coaching Development
Partner organizations volunteer to participate in the project. Healthcare facilities and have already participated in year one, two, and three of the Center’s Frontline Nurse Leadership & Coaching Development
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Year 1
· Lutheran Medical Center
· Columbine Health Systems
· Sterling Regional Medical Center
· Vail Valley Medical Center
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Year 2
· Craig Hospital
· National Jewish Health
· Estes Park Medical Center
· St. Mary’s Medical Center
- Grand Junction
· Critical Access hospitals sponsored by the Colorado Rural Health Association
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Year 3
· The Children’s Hospital
· St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center – Pueblo
· St. Thomas More Hospital – Canon City
· Denver Health Medical Center
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Contact
Karren Kowalski, PhD, RN, NEA – BC, FAAN
Project Director
303-715-0343 x 15
For more information, contact Ally Blanco, (303) 715-0343 ext. 22 or ablanco@coloradonursingcenter.org