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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
A Model for Leadership Development: Best Practices for Nurse-Managed Clinics
Kathie Aduddell, EdD, MSN, BSN, WellCollege of Health & Human Service/ School of Nursing, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
| Learning Objective #1: Identify key components of nursing knowledge and applications required to establish nurse-managed primary health services. |
| Learning Objective #2: Identify best practices that link nurse-managed clinics with a graduate curriculum in advanced care management and leadership.
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The current health care system, driven by markets and health care consumers as well as quality improvement, reform, and managed care processes, requires a constant renewal of how things are done. The paradigm of focusing on illness events with diagnosis, treatment, and some level of follow-up is evolving to a new paradigm of clinical case management, population health care, and approaches to assuring health and maintaining consumers in the health continuum. With renewal and paradigm changes comes an ever-increasing complexity of the healthcare system as a whole that results in the need for a different type of leader and manager. A methodology to link graduate nursing programs and nurse-managed clinics can assist with developing a different type of leader and clinical manager. This project describes the assessment and implementation models and strategies to establish such a methodology. Key practices are identified that have proven to develop a successful endeavor at a major university in a large metropolitan area in the southeast of the USA. These best practices in relation to the establishment of nurse-managed health services in collaborative partnerships with graduate nursing programs will be explored. Specific challenges and opportunities will also be summarized.