4031-16: Leading Through the Night: How an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Successfully Engaged and Empowered their Night Shift Staff
Recorded On: 10/22/2016
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4031-16: "Leading Through the Night" How an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Successfully Engaged and Empowered their Night Shift Staff
The need for engaged, empowered, and highly qualified nurses is no less important on the night shift. This presentation will describe one hospital’s journey to successfully engage, empower, and transform their night shift nurses. This is a journey of re-igniting passion through transformational leadership, shared governance, and valuing our staff.
Presenters: Nancy Moore, MSN-BC; Linda Tayyun, BSN, RN-BC
Disclosures: The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.
Session Length: 31 minutes
Target Audience: RN
Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the obstacles encountered when attempting to increase engagement in night shift staff in an inpatient psychiatric hospital.
- Discuss specific transformational strategies employed by our CNO and how those strategies empowered the night supervisors to then engage and empower the staff.
- Identify specific steps that were taken to engage and empower the night shift staff and how you can use them in your own practice.
Keywords: Night Shift, Engagement, Sleep Routine, Transformational Strategies
Continuing Nursing Education
0.5 contact hours. * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.
The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Originally Presented
APNA 30th Annual Conference
Hartford, Connecticut
Saturday, October 22
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Release Date: January 19, 2017
The contact hours for this session expire: November 30, 2019
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