01 Mar RNAO’s Leadership and Management for Nurses Program
| Dear CHNIG Member, We had an amazing response to our call to CHNIG members inviting your involvement in RNAO’s Leadership and Management for Nurses Program for the 1st Cohort which ran last fall targeted to LTC and Hospitals. Because of the CHNIG members who volunteered their time and exquisite knowledge the program was a resounding success!! ALSO CHNIG members involved found it an inspiring experience which many said was a real boost for them in these trying times in nursing. We will be calling on many of these volunteers again in the spring 2023 session of the Program for the 2nd Cohort. In addition to the LTC and Hospital sectors, this time, we have added PUBLIC HEALTH and HOME and COMMUNITY and PRIMARY CARE. We are sending out the survey now, to all CHNIG members to invite your engagement in the program with a special shout out to those in PUBLIC HEALTH and HOME and COMMUNITY and PRIMARY CARE. The Program commences Wednesday March 22nd and extends to June 14th. We have had an overwhelming number of applications and CHNIG volunteers from all sectors, will really help us enhance the practical nature of the program with your input. In order to assist you in volunteering the curriculum overview outlines information about the program including the topic areas and the teaching methodology. You can see the focus is on translation of knowledge to practice through cases and stories to help bring the content alive making sure it reflects today’s health care context, and the specific sector. The partnership of CHNIG has made this program extremely strong in its focus on application of knowledge to practice with input from leaders currently in the field. We would like to involve more CHNIG members, across all sectors in helping with sector specific sessions as speakers, as facilitators of small group case study discussions, as designers of case studies, and as mentors. These are described in more detail here. Speaking sessions are for sector specific groups of 30 participants and involve a 20-minute presentation based on your experience related to the topic area and a 10-minute discussion period. The facilitated small group discussions involve facilitating a 30-minute discussion with a small group of 5-7 participants as they discuss a sector specific case related to the topic. Your role is to introduce the session, monitor discussion, ensure key concepts are highlighted and conclude the session. The case study and analysis will be provided. Providing a case study would consist of sharing a short 2 -3 paragraph case study or being involved in developing a video vignette related to a key topic. The Program Planning Team will work with you on this. Being a mentor involves working one on one virtually with a participant in the program, and meeting at least one hour per month. Further details are found here in the Mentorship Information Documents. We welcome your engagement and will be delighted to hear about your interest in being involved in this exciting work! Remember, your involvement can be limited to one or more topic areas: as a speaker, a facilitator of a small group discussion, or sharing a written case (anonymous) depicting an experience you had in the nurse middle manager role in any health sector. Please note at this time we have needs in the public health, home, community and primary care sectors as well as the hospital sector including acute care, complex continuing care and rehabilitation. However, we are looking for your engagement in all sectors. The Leadership and Management for Nurses Program can best be strengthened by involving practicing nurse middle managers who can share stories of their own experiences and approaches to the realities and the challenges that are part of nurse middle manager roles. We hope you will be excited about helping other nurse middle managers learn the ropes of being effective leader managers. To help guide us in working together, attached is a link to a questionnaire for you to indicate the details and focus of your involvement in the program. We thank you for your interest in this way of contributing your leadership and management expertise, and for completing the short questionnaire by as soon as possible by end of day March 7th, 2023. We really look forward to working with you, and having you join the awesome team of CHNIG members who have been so inspiring to our participants! |
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