Attention DONs: Learn the skills to be a successful leader
Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, June 11, 2009
Does your facility invest a lot of time, money, and effort into orienting clinical staff? Does it invest the same amount of effort when staff are promoted or hired into the director of nursing (DON) position? A successful DON is also a successful leader. But successful leadership is dependent on one’s ability to:
- Inspire confidence
- Show personal interest
- Produce results and quality outcomes
- Spark, gather, and use employee’s ideas
- Lead rather than “boss”
- Foster teamwork and a sense of community
- Show kindness without being considered “easy”
- Coach staff to reach their potential
- Be a role model for balancing work and home
- Delegate properly
- Demonstrate self-confidence without being “cocky”
- Mark hard decisions when needed
Leadership skills are important and transitioning from a nurse to a DON is tough. But, an association like the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long-Term Care (NADONA/LTC) is committed to helping nursing and administration professionals adapt into the DON role. Meet other DONs and swap stories from July 11 – 15, when NADONA/LTC holds their national conference in Phoenix, AZ.
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