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Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to appreciate the NFLA quest in developing leadership, advancing nursing education, and expanding a scope of influence through a project.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to appraise outcomes of a project for transitioning BSN students into professional nursing practice in light of the NFLA quest.
“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote.
Baccalaureate nursing programs are obligated to help students transition into professionals, despite industry and educational trends that challenge traditional Capstone/Preceptor courses.
As a scholar in the Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (NFLA), a quixotic quest was undertaken to lead, advance, and influence nursing education through curricular redesign aimed at transitioning BSN students into professional practice. Quixotic describes behavior that is noble in an absurd way, or desire to perform acts of chivalry in a radically impractical manner, stemming from Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. A quixotic quest does not focus on problems of nursing education, but embraces what it could be; therefore Kouzes and Posner’s Exemplary Leadership practices of encouraging, enabling, inspiring, modeling, and challenging the process were utilized to redesign the final semester for BSN students.
The project resulted in NURS 430: Transition into Professional Nursing Practice. This course meets Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) call for transforming nursing education to provide students better understanding of and experience in care management, quality improvement methods, and systems-level change management as well as IOM’s goal of re-conceptualizing roles of nurses and the need for health professionals to work together to break down walls of hierarchical silos and develop mutual accountability for improving quality and safety.
“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
The scholar’s mission continues beyond the project with plans for more quixotic quests for nursing education that will be embarked upon with newly embraced leadership skills and growing scope of influence.
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