Learn to Manage Yourself.

It's the first step in learning to manage others.

The Art of Giving Feedback.

For many leaders, giving positive feedback comes easily, but giving negative feedback can be more challenging. This article provides best-practice strategies for giving effective feedback-through building trust, promoting a growth mindset, and developing the courage to tackle difficult performance conversations.

The Experience of Being a Millennial Nurse Manager.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the experience of being a Millennial nurse manager with a goal to better understand the influence of organizational factors on role expectations, satisfaction, support, development, and intent to stay.

Background: Research on Millennial nurse leaders is scarce. Understanding the perception of these young managers is needed to create succession and retention planning that meets the needs of this generation of leaders.

Transitioning Emerging Leaders Into Nurse Leader Roles.

Millennials will soon comprise 50% of the nursing workforce. Leaders in organizations look to this generation to assume leadership roles. This is proving to be challenging in many settings.

Structured Coaching Programs to Develop Staff.

Health care environments are complex and chaotic, therein challenging patients and professionals to attain satisfaction, well-being, and exceptional outcomes. These chaotic environments increase the stress and burnout of professionals and reduce the likelihood of optimizing success in many dimensions. Coaching is evolving as a professional skill that may influence the optimization of the health care environment.

Leading in the Healthcare Vortex.

The 2016 International Nursing Administration Research Conference, Leading in a Healthcare Vortex, was held in Orlando, Florida. The program drew 116 attendees with representation from Canada and Brazil. Participants from practice, education, and research discussed leadership in our turbulent healthcare climate, which are highlighted in this column.

Chief Nursing Officers' Experiences With Moral Distress.

Objective: This study explores if moral distress and its lingering residue were experienced by chief nursing officers (CNOs).

Background: Chief nursing officers, by virtue of their position and experience, are expected to uphold their professional values and act for the benefit of others. Exploration is needed to determine if the inability to do so contributes to the moral distress of these leaders.

Growing Nurse Leaders: Their Perspectives on Nursing Leadership and Today’s Practice Environment.

With the growing complexity of healthcare practice environments and pending nurse leader retirements, the development of future nurse leaders is increasingly important. This article reports on focus group research conducted with Generation Y nurses prior to their initiating coursework in a Master’s Degree program designed to support development of future nurse leaders. Forty-four emerging nurse leaders across three program cohorts participated in this qualitative study conducted to capture perspectives about nursing leaders and leadership.

Charge Nurses' Experiences With Horizontal Violence: Implications for Leadership Development.

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Florida Nurse Leader Survey Findings: Key Leadership Competencies, Barriers to Leadership, and Succession Planning Needs.

Objective: This study examined barriers to nursing leadership and succession planning needs for nurse leaders in Florida.

Background: The Florida Action Coalition responded to the call to prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health, through a grant supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Florida Blue Foundation.

Methods: This is a nurse leader subset of a 56-item statewide survey of actively licensed RNs and advanced RN practitioners in Florida conducted via a cross-sectional, exploratory descriptive research design.

Succession planning for the future through an academic-practice partnership: a nursing administration master's program for emerging nurse leaders.

A global nursing leadership shortage is projected by the end of this decade. There is an urgent need to begin developing emerging nurse leaders now. This article describes the work of an academic-practice partnership collaborative of nurse leaders.

Global nurse leader perspectives on health systems and workforce challenges.

Aim: As part of the 2011 annual American Organization of Nurse Executives conference held in San Diego, California, a session was presented that focused on nursing workforce and health systems challenges from a global perspective. This article includes content addressed during the session representing nurse leader perspectives from the UK, Singapore and the USA.

Background: Recent events in global economic markets have highlighted the interdependence of countries.

Charge nurse perspectives on frontline leadership in acute care environments.

A recently issued report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the United States on the Future of Nursing included a recommendation that nurses should receive leadership development at every level in order to transform the healthcare system. Charge nurses, at the frontline of patient care in acute care settings, are in key positions to lead this change. This paper presents findings from research conducted with nurses in the Tenet Health System.

Taking charge: front-line nurse leadership development.

The recent Institute of Medicine (2010) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, included a recommendation that nurses at all levels should be prepared and enabled to lead change to advance health care in the United States. Historically, in most organizations, nursing leadership development programs have focused on nurses in management or executive roles rather than those working in front-line leadership roles. This article describes a front-line leadership development initiative developed by Tenet Healthcare Corporation and attended by 400 charge nurses.