Paper
Sunday, November 4, 2007
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Servant Leadership in Academic Organizations
Sonia Strevy, RN, MS, Nursing Online, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, USA
| Learning Objective #1: describe a servant leadership approach to collaboration for the advancement of nursing science, practice and education. |
| Learning Objective #2: apply and share nursing knowledge and leadership within transdisciplinary collaborative partnerships to promote a global community. |
Nursing education is a complex and diverse field which requires much of the nurse educator and leaders in nursing education. To meet the needs of this complex field of study it is imperative that leaders with the gifts, talents and abilities needed to move nursing toward excellence in needed now more than ever before. A servant leadership approach to the planning, implementation and evaluation of excellence in nursing provides a framework for education which focuses on relationship and service. To this end, the Servant Leadership Model of Service and Relationship is developed based on the frameworks of past research in servant leadership, a four frame-view of leadership and concernful practices of schooling, learning and teaching.