A new empowerment nursing care model is designed to strengthen nurses’ leadership abilities to improve their practice and deal with complexity, Amy Wilson, Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations, says in a column for Becker’s Hospital Review.
Amy says that as healthcare reform led to restructuring and transformation in U.S. healthcare organizations, the nursing workforce has been tasked with maintaining an outdated care delivery model.
Nurses have dealt with heavier workloads, lower staffing levels, and poor and complex work environments, she says, leading to burnout, turnover and vacancies.
“Healthcare leaders must modernize nursing care models to decrease burnout and empower nurses to improve and advance the care they deliver,” she says.
That’s why Ascension has confronted these issues head on. Amy discusses a new empowerment nursing care model at Ascension sites of care.
“The integration of a new care model included leadership development, agile methodology, design thinking and formation. Nurses became empowered by learning how to problem-solve and articulate concerns and solutions, so they were able to confidently address complex, modern issues and improve their practice environment,” she says. “Unit management and hospital leadership were taught transformational leadership skills to give nurses the time and space they needed to be creative and innovative, express themselves and solve problems, while flattening the hierarchy of the organization.”
Click here for her full column at Becker’s.
