A nursing fellowship--building leadership skills.

A postgraduate nursing fellowship helps future nursing leaders deal with constant change, focus on learning and development, think systemically and mobilize resources through team building and goal directedness. An administrative fellowship program helps to develop future leaders, with the skills necessary to assume key positions in health care. Core competencies--leadership criteria, roles of the fellow and preceptor, skills of the fellow and preceptor and fellowship projects--are described.

Development of leadership within the university and beyond: challenges to faculty and their development.

Environmental changes in health care are driving changes in academic health centers. Nursing faculty have an opportunity to shape the changes on campus and in future health care delivery systems through participation in campus initiatives, but some may lack the skill set to be active participants. Leadership is defined as the ability to influence behavior and includes the skills of negotiation, facilitation, conflict management, organizational improvement, political savvy, systems thinking, personal mastery, and others. Opportunities for acquiring stronger leadership skills include feedback, partnering, mentoring, formal classes, and 360 degrees feedback.