Virginia Action CoalitionNursing Leadership from the

Bedside to the Boardroom

Loressa Cole, DNP, MBA, RNLindsey J. Cardwell, MSN, RN

Presentation ID: L13

Today’s presenters do not have any relevant financial interests presenting a conflict of interest to disclose.

Participants must attend the entire session(s) in order to earn contact hour credit. Continuing Nursing Education credit can be earned by completing the online session evaluation.

  The American Organization of Nurse Executives is accredited as a provider of continuing

nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

AONE is authorized to award one hour of pre-approved ACHE Qualified Education credit (non-ACHE) for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Disclosure

Describe a state structure to promote nursing leadership in the boardroom.

Identify key strategies that can be implemented at a state level to prepare nurses to lead change from the bedside to the boardroom.

Identify successful state-wide strategies to identify and recognize nurse leaders at all levels.

Objectives

Loressa Cole, DNP, MBA, RN Current Virginia Nurses Association President Virginia Action Coalition Leadership Workgroup Co-Lead Chief Nursing Officer - LewisGale Hospital Montgomery 146-bed acute care facility in Blacksburg, Virginia

• Home of Virginia Tech University• Magnet Designation 2009 & 2013• Level 111 Trauma Center• 600 Employees• Core teaching hospital

Lindsey J. Cardwell, MSN, RNVirginia Action Coalition Leadership Workgroup Co-LeadManager, Professional Nursing Development, CentraCentra is a non-profit Integrated Healthcare System

• 3 Acute Care Hospitals • 29 Facilities• 6,000 Employees• Long term, assisted living & retirement community• Regional Cancer Center• 50 percent ownership in local Health Plan

IOM Future of NursingCampaign for Action

Americans have access to high quality, patient-centered care in a health care system where nurses contribute as essential partners in achieving success

Vision

1. Very Familiar2. Familiar3. I have heard of them4. Not Familiar

Are you familiar with the Future of Nursing Recommendations?

1. Remove scope of practice barriers.2. Expand opportunities for interprofessional collaboration.3. Implement nurse residency programs.4. Increase proportion of nurses with BSN to 80% by 2020.5. Double the number of nurses with doctorates.6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change and advance

healthcare.8. Build an infrastructure for data collection.

Future of Nursing Recommendations

November 2010 Campaign for Action Launch Summit:

RWJ Foundation AARP

Center to Champion Nursing in America

Campaign for Action

Campaign for Action:Key Messages

High-quality patient

centeredcare

Leadership

Access to Care

Workforce Data

Education

Interprofessional Collaboration

Short and long term

• Field strategy to move key nursing issues forward at local, state and national levels.• Capture best practices, track lessons learned and identify replicable models.• State Action Coalitions – 5 pilots, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Mississippi,

California.• In 15 states before moving nationwide.

State Action Coalitions

Submitted February 2011 - input from more than sixty stakeholders.

Virginia Nurses Association and VA AARP partnered.

Awarded designation in March 2011.

Virginia’s Action Coalition Application

1. Yes2. No

Are you involved in your state Action Coalition?

Interprofessional Collaboration Education Progression Workforce Data Access to Care Leadership

Virginia Workgroups

Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States.

Nursing must produce leaders, from the bedside to the boardroom, who can serve as full partners and be accountable for their own contributions to delivering high-quality care while working with leaders from other health professions.

IOM Leadership Recommendations

Develop strategies to ensure nursing is skilled to provide leadership from the bedside to the boardroom.

Virginia Leadership Goal

Continue to determine strategic boards to which nurses could be appointed and work with stakeholders to identify, mentor, and recommend individuals for those appointments.

Collaborate with schools of nursing to ensure the curriculum focuses on leadership skills necessary for today’s complex healthcare environment.

Virginia Leadership Objectives

Continue “Nurse Leaders in the Boardroom” program piloted with Robert Wood Johnson and AARP in September, 2009.

Recognize leaders “from the bedside to the boardroom” at the annual Virginia Nurses Foundation Excellence in Nursing gala.

Virginia Leadership Objectives

Continue to support the current and expanded Nurse Leadership Institute (NLI) by participating on committees, providing scholarships, assisting in encouraging employers to nominate fellows and nurses to serve as faculty. NLI, a program of the Richmond Memorial Health

Foundation and a 2007 Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) grantee, is a nine-month leadership development course for nurse leaders working in all sectors of healthcare across the Commonwealth.

Virginia Leadership Objectives

The Survey

Baseline assessment of Virginia nursing board leadership service.

Survey was released in January 2012. Closed in March 2012. 282 completed the survey.

1. Yes2. No

Do you currently serve on a local board or organization’s board of

directors?

Do you currently serve on a local board or organization’s board of

directors?

142198

What type of local board are you serving on?

Local Boards

Free Clinics Crisis Pregnancy

Centers AORN, VNA, Black

Nurses & other professional nursing associations

Public Health Advisory Commissions

Red Cross Alzheimer’s Association

Church Affiliated Boards Performing Arts Council Historical Councils County Board of

Supervisors AARP University & Community

College Councils YMCA

1. Yes2. No

Do you currently serve on a state-wide board or organization’s board

of directors?

Do you currently serve on a state-wide board or organization’s board

of directors?

What type of state board are you serving on?

State Boards

Virginia Partnership for Nursing

Virginia Board of Nursing

Virginia Nurses Association

Virginia Nurses Foundation

Multiple professional nurses associations

Virginia Board of Health

Virginia Association of Counties

VCCS Associates Degree Nursing Program Heads

Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing

Health Insurance Exchange Governing Body

1. Yes2. No

Do you currently serve on a national board or organization’s board of

directors?

Do you currently serve on a national board or organization’s board of

directors?

What type of national board are you serving on?

National Boards

American Nurses Association & Political Action Coalition

National eHealth Collaborative

Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs

American Midwifery Certification Board

AORN Journal Editorial Board

National Kidney Foundation

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

American Organization of Nurse Executives

Various National Nursing Organizations

Of the Registered Nurses surveyed, 60.3% of those not currently serving on a board, were interested in future board leadership.

181 Virginia Registered Nurses are future board leaders!

Future Nurse Board Leaders

64.1 % or 118 Experienced Nurse Board Leaders were willing to mentor other Registered Nurses interested in board leadership.

Experienced Nursing Board Leaders Willing to Mentor New Board

Members

Virginia Nurses Association submitted resumes of qualifies nurses for state gubernatorial appointments. Nurses from survey interested in board service. VNA advertisement for interested candidates.

Appointments made by the Governor from the candidates recommended by the Virginia Nurses Association.

One successful recommendation for a hospital board.

Board Appointments

Imbed link to toolkit to show resources available: Mentor/mentee database Resources etc

Leadership Toolkit

Nurses may submit name and resume to database if interested in serving and be connected by action coalition. Mentor of new nurse board leaders. Mentee of experienced nurse board leaders.

Future goal to provide a “match.com” type database and allow individuals to select their own mentor or mentee.

Mentorship Structure

Gallup ranks nurses as most ethical and honest. Opinion leaders say nurses should have more

influence on health systems and services. Nursing currently ranked sixth behind other

stakeholders to influence health reform. Top barrier to nurses influence and leadership is

not being perceived as important decision makers.

Nursing Leadership on Hospital Boards

1. Yes2. No

Does your hospital currently have a nurse serving as a voting member of

the board?

Nursing Leadership on Hospital Boards

Next Steps: Collaborate with the Virginia Hospital Association to

assess the number of nurses serving on hospital boards in Virginia.

Identify barriers to nursing service on hospital boards.

Develop relationships and strategies to promote nursing leadership on hospital boards.

Nursing Leadership on Hospital Boards

1. Yes2. No

Does your state nurses association or action coalition formally recognize

nurse leaders?

40 Future Nursing Leaders Under 40 recognized at the annual Virginia Nurses Foundation Gala.

Recognizing Nursing Leadership

40 Nursing Leaders Under 40 Leadership development education day offered in

collaboration with the Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives, Virginia Nurses Association, and Virginia Nurses Foundation.

Recruited to participate in Virginia’s Action Coalition. Assisted to pursue board positions.

Recognizing Nursing Leadership

Virginia Nurses Foundation 2013 Gala “Every Nurse a Leader”

Nursing Leadership Excellence Awards in areas of: Administration Education Research Direct Care Advocacy Retirement and Lifetime Achievement Entrepreneur

Recognizing Nursing Leadership

Recognizing Nursing Leadership

Virginia Nurses Foundation 2013 Gala “Every Nurse a Leader” Award Recipients

Institute of Medicine. (2010). The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Articles VAC

References

Loressa.cole@hcahealthcare.comLindsey.cardwell@centrahealth.com

www.virginianurses.com

http://campaignforaction.org

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