Leadership programme for early career nurses opens

A leadership programme for early career nurses and midwives has opened this week.

The Florence Nightingale Foundation, with the Sandra Charitable Trust launched the Sandra Charitable Trust Early Career Nurses and Midwives Leadership Programme 2024 on Monday.

The aims of the six-month programme are to:

• Develop leadership identity, capacity, and capability.

• Influence organisational and patient outcomes at local, systems, national and international level of healthcare delivery.

The learning objectives for the programme are to:

• Demonstrate enhanced awareness of how personality preferences influence personal effectiveness and performance in teams.

• Identify and critically appraise opportunities to influence through personal and collective authority.

• Develop strategies to express self in a manner which communicates presence, enables influence, and has impact.

• Explore personal resilience and develop tools for staying effective under pressure.

• Formulate and put into practice plans which contribute to improved outcomes for patients and staff underpinned by evidence and quality improvement methodology.

The programme is fully funded but successful applicants will need to pay for their travel expenses.

Applications should be submitted by September 30.

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