Picture this, you are in an interview for your dream job. The panel chair states, “This is the last question.” As you quietly sigh with relief, they follow with, “Describe your leadership style, and what makes you an effective leader?” Your mind goes blank, and then a corporate word salad enters your brain – bureaucratic,…
Transformational leadership in its ideal form, creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. The term ‘transformational leadership’ was originally termed in 1985 by Bernard M. Bass. This concept work extended by Burns (1978) to define transformational leadership as an approach that causes change in individuals…
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Leadership Faculty links nurses who have an interest in Leadership. The aim of the Leadership Faculty is to provide opportunities for members to enhance their leadership skills and knowledge through mentorship, networking and sharing current evidence-based research and best practice guidelines. Members will share experiences and learnings with their…
The word leadership is used frequently, but do we actually know what it means to be a leader? The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) believes there are many ways to display leadership. With this in mind, we asked some of our Emerging Nurse Leaders (ENL) to provide a short response on what leadership means to…
Some of our ENLs at the ACN Nursing and Health Expo 2018 Are you an early-career nurse keen to make a difference to our profession? The Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Emerging Nurse Leader (ENL) program aims to empower nurses by nurturing and developing their leadership skills. All early-career nurses— from undergraduate students to nursing…
In this blog series, Out and about with our ENLs, participants of ACN’s Emerging Nurse Leader program share their stories. Today you’ll read how the journey is shaping out for Jemma Poxom MACN, Stage 5 ENL. When I heard there was a program for emerging nurse leaders I jumped at the opportunity to apply. The…
A major aspect of ACN’s Emerging Nurse Leader program is creating valuable professional and mentor relationships. In this two-part blog series you’ll hear from from our ENL, Emma Bugden MACN and her mentor Lieutenant Anthony Russell MACN on what this mentorship meant to each of them. The mentor’s experience By Lieutenant Anthony Russell MACN, Senior Nursing…