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Inside best practice: Prepare staff to be leaders and facilitators

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, June 24, 2008

Battle Creek (MI) Health System created an eight-hour shared governance leadership program to prepare staff nurses to lead and facilitate councils or other groups. The program addresses roles and responsibilities of a council leader, facilitator, manager, members, and director representatives.

Additionally, the shared governance leadership program shows nurses how to:

• Establish an agenda
• Keep a meeting on target
• Keep appropriate documentation of meeting minutes
• Deal with group dynamics and challenging personalities
• Build consensus
• Resolve conflicts
• Identify methods for brainstorming and techniques to help set priorities

“The shared governance leadership program is interactive, as participants receive information, then immediately have an opportunity to practice the techniques,” says Linda Klavon, MS, RN, CS, APRN, BC, CEN, clinical nurse specialist for professional practice at Battle Creek Health System. “Ideally, at the end of the program, they leave with their next meeting agenda built from topics picked from the brainstorming exercises along with more confidence in their leadership roles.”

Source: Linda Klavon, clinical nurse specialist for professional practice at Battle Creek Health System. Klavon is a member of HCPro’s talk group: Journey Talk. 

Editor’s note: Do you have a best practice you would like to share? Send it in an e-mail to associate editor Cameran Erny at cerny@hcpro.com and see your name in print!

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