55 nurses and midwives have been enrolled onto the leadership training programmes.
Last year marked the high point of 150 years of professional nursing in Australia.
In 1868 Lucy Osburn and five other ‘Nightingale’ trained nurses arrived at Sydney Hospital, where the first school of nursing education was established. South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) currently covers a large geographical area of 468kms, and has nine facilities located across the district. There are over 5,000 nurses and midwives employed across these facilities. SESLHD has a strong commitment to develop nursing and midwifery leaders of the future and has a broad suite of leadership programmes that will be offered to participants of The Nightingale Challenge 2020.
The programmes aim to meet the needs of the participants’ personal and leadership development, and improve knowledge of the wider organisation. The programmes range from short one or two day leadership development workshops to more long term twelve month programmes that have an academic structure. A sample of some of the programmes on offer are:-
- Effective Leadership Programme: 12 month programme with academic structure
- Clinical Leadership Programme: 12 month programme with academic structure
- Future Nurse Unit Manager Programme: 12 month programme with mentoring and shadowing
- Institute of Health Care Improvement: 2 online learning modules
- Emerging Leaders Programme: One day workshop
- Heart of Caring Leadership Teams: One day workshop with follow – up coaching
Here you can read about some of the nurses and midwives enrolled on the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District’s Nightingale Challenge programme. In these interviews, they explain why they joined the Nightingale Challenge, and what leaders they aspire to be in the future…
