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The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) November 2022 International Conference was held at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western University. ALSN is dedicated to uniting academic and practice leaders to shape leadership science, education in nursing, and the practice of nursing leadership. One hundred fifty-one nurse leaders from the United States, Canada, and Oman gathered to discuss leadership as highlighted in this column.
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Leadership , Nursing Care , Humans , United States , Universities , Canada , Educational StatusABSTRACT
The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing's 2021 conference provided an opportunity to further enhance professional understanding of the difficulties facing nurse leaders as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create unimaginable challenges. Presentations provided evidence in support of courageous caring leadership interventions.
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Congresses as Topic , Societies, Nursing , Health Equity , Humans , Leadership , Professional RoleABSTRACT
This article provides insight into the impact of boundary spanning for nurse leaders in a large integrated post-acute health care system in the southeastern part of the United States as they responded (not reacted) to the COVID-19 pandemic that threatened the lives of 2 of society's most vulnerable populations, the elderly and the disabled. Through illustrative examples, the authors describe the 6 strategies of boundary spanning leadership-buffering, reflecting, connecting, mobilizing, weaving, and transforming-that enabled these nurse leaders to respond effectively during this crisis. The literature informs on the merit of situational leadership, as no single type of leadership is right for all circumstances. Today's new novel pandemic served as a powerful catalyst for a group of nurse leaders in a large non-acute network of health care organizations, their colleagues, and other key stakeholders to reframe the boundaries that existed between their organizations and associations, thus enabling them to successfully problem solve together to accomplish several high-stakes goals.
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COVID-19/nursing , Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration , Leadership , Nurse Administrators/organization & administration , COVID-19/epidemiology , Humans , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2 , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
In recognition of the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the 2020 annual conference of the Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) celebrated A Look Back to Move Forward in recognition of the 50th anniversary of ALSN. The ALSN began as the Council of Graduate Education for Administrative Nursing (CGEAN) in 1970. Today, ALSN maintains the goals of shaping graduate education and research to inform nursing leadership practice.