I 09 SPECIAL SESSION: Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development: Building the Next Generation of Nurse Faculty

Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 2:45 PM-4:00 PM
Description/Overview: The Elsevier Foundation has provided funding for the development of a new Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development program. Administered by the Sigma Theta Tau International’s (STTI) International Leadership Institute, this program is designed to promote faculty retention and cultivate high performing, supportive work environments in academe. Through the eighteen-month mentored experiential leadership development program new nurse faculty will attend an intensive workshop, engage in monthly online faculty led discussion groups, create and implement a sustainable education leadership project, and design an individual leadership development plan. An international team of expert faculty has designed a challenging curriculum which will promote successful outcomes for the individual new faculty, the academic institutions of both the participant and the mentor, and the community of nurse educators.
Learner Objective #1: Describe how the NFMLD Program has been designed to meet the need for offering experiential leadership development for emerging nurse faculty leaders
Learner Objective #2: Identify three key design elements of the Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development Program
Moderator
Tiffany M. Montgomery, RNC-OB, EFM-C, BSN, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA
Symposium Organizer
Deborah Cleeter, RN, MSN, EdD, Sawgrass Leadership Institute, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Invited Presenters
Ainslie Nibert, RN, PhD, Review & Testing, Elsevier, Houston, TX and D. Anthony (Tony) Forrester, PhD, RN, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) -- School of Nursing and Morristown Memorial Hospital, Newark, NJ