ERA+ Clinical Leadership in Nursing Education

Registrations for the webinar on October 22 are now open. During this session, we will explore clinical leadership in nursing and education in greater depth.

You can register here.
We look forward to welcoming you.
 

Clinical leadership involves a healthcare provider using their personal influence to impact individuals or groups, with the goal of improving patient outcomes and strengthening the broader healthcare environment. They recognize their influence and their professional and ethical responsibilities. They are clinical experts who provide direct patient care. In their actions, they demonstrate emotional intelligence, challenge ineffective work processes, and inspire others to take action. From this position, they participate in decision-making within an interprofessional practice setting based on clinical autonomy. 

Definition used by ERA+ consortium based on Grindel, C. G. (2016). Clinical Leadership: A Call to Action. Medsurg Nurs, 25(1), 9-16

What does it take for a nurse to lead at the bedside? An integrative literature review identified the competences that make up clinical leadership in nursing. The resulting framework was then assessed by experts and discussed in workshops with nurses, educators and students in Belgium, Finland and Portugal.

The framework describes clinical leadership as six interrelated domains: ethics, professional nursing, innovation and change, influencing and advocacy, team leadership, and communication and collaboration. Together they cover fourteen competences.

Clinical leadership in nursing education: development of competency framework
An short article on the project and how the framework was developed with experts, nurses, educators and students.