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Professional Excellence and Career Advancement in Nursing: A Conceptual Framework for Clinical Leadership Development
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Professional Excellence and Career Advancement in Nursing: A Conceptual Framework for Clinical Leadership Development

Rita Adeniran, Anand Bhattacharya and Anthony Adeniran
Nursing administration quarterly, v 36(1)
01 Jan 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/NAQ.0b013e31823b0fec
PMID: 22157789

Abstract

Career advancement Health care industry Leadership Nurses Professional development
Increasingly, stakeholders in the health care community are recognizing nursing as key to solving the nation's health care issues. This acknowledgment provides a unique opportunity for nursing to demonstrate leadership by developing clinical nurse leaders to collaborate with the multidisciplinary care team in driving evidence-based, safe quality, cost-effective health care services. One approach for nursing success is standardizing the entry-level education for nurses and developing a uniform professional development and career advancement trajectory with appropriate incentives to encourage participation. A framework to guide and provide scientific evidence of how frontline nurses can be engaged will be paramount. The model for professional excellence and career advancement provides a framework that offers a clear path for researchers to examine variables influencing nurses' professional development and career advancement in a systematic manner. Professional Excellence and Career Advancement in Nursing underscores professional preparedness of a registered nurse as central to leadership development. It also describes the elements that influence nurses' participation in professional development and career advancement under 4 main categories emphasizing mentorship and self-efficacy as essential variables. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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