Eliminating health disparities requires health professionals who are trained and adept in community-based leadership. To be effective, these leaders must read the environment, manage within and across organizations and systems, and work in partnership with communities. These skills are generally absent from health professionals' education. Nursing, as a health care discipline, has a foundation of skills and values that position it well to assume these roles. This project describes a model graduate nursing curriculum to prepare community-based nurse leaders. The model curriculum project was funded by a planning grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust HSBC,trustee. It is designed to reflect the inherent nature of communities which are organic and dynamic. It focuses on four content areas: nursing leadership for community based systems, health-related community development, population focused health interventions, and program development and administration. An overview of each area, description of content, learner objectives, suggested topics and teaching methods are included. The aim of the curriculum is to guide the education of nurses to assume leadership roles to improve and enhance the health of communities.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the participant in this session will be able to: 1)Identify the strengths and resources that nurses bring to community-based leadership roles. 2) Describe the important skills for community-based nursing leaders. 3) List four values basic to community-based leadership. 4) Describe 2 characteristics of an effective instructor in community-based leadership. 5) Describe 4 teaching methods for building the knowledge base of community-based leadership
Keywords: Community, Nursing Education
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Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: University of Pennsylvania
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.