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An innovative nurse leadership program that will develop a cadre of nurse managers in the United Arab Emirates was launched at Corniche Hospital, in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. This initiative allows current nurse leaders or those who are training to become managers to build on their strengths for future challenges.
“We are delighted to have had the opportunity to implement this important initiative at our hospital,” said Lynda Mikalauskas, Chief Clinical Officer, Corniche Hospital, who led the leadership program together with her Johns Hopkins Medicine International counterparts. “Nursing is essential to patient care and nurses are crucial members of the medical team. Today, health care focuses on quality and patient safety, service standards and customer retention. Our nurses are the key to achieving these results. Johns Hopkins is known for its global leadership position in nurse education and nurse leadership. We are glad that our colleagues in Baltimore were able to share their expertise in this area in a way that helped us to adapt the renowned Johns Hopkins’ leadership program to local needs and make it truly successful.”
The one-week program was offered to 32 attendees from all nursing departments in the SEHA hospital system and delivered by three Johns Hopkins nurse experts from Baltimore, USA. Areas of instruction included employee engagement, performance management, staff development and goal setting, service excellence and patient satisfaction, and problem solving and team work. Nurses and managers discussed how to foster an environment conducive to a culture of patient safety and quality improvement, and studied staff recruitment and retention.
“We believe that this program will have a strong positive impact on health care delivery at Corniche Hospital and in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi,” said Ronald Lavater, CEO of Corniche Hospital. “Corniche nurse leaders will benefit from the lessons they learned and there will be many opportunities in their daily work to implement the acquired knowledge. In addition, the initiative helped them to form strong work relationships and collegiality, and gave them a greater understanding of how other health care organizations and facilities operate.”
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