Nurse and Physician Co-Leadership: Exploring a Strategy to Enhance Quality and Patient Safety in U.S. Hospitals

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Nurse and Physician Co-Leadership: Exploring a Strategy to Enhance Quality and Patient Safety in U.S. Hospitals

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Laura Senn, PhD, RN, CNS , Women's and Children's Services, Sutter Memorial Hospital, Sacramento, CA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • Understand the different types of plural leadership and how co-leadership is unique.
  • Describe the unique aspects of nurse-physician co-leadership, including the factors that enhance and hinder the role development
  • List two examples of how nurse and physician co-leaders have used their complementary competencies to implement a quality improvement project

    • Submission Description:
    A new leadership model in healthcare, nurse and physician co-leadership, may be an effective strategy to use to bridge diffuse power structures found in the knowledge-based, pluralistic organization. Co-leadership is effectively used by at least 10% of business worldwide, but only a few hospitals across the country have implemented this leadership model. This plural leadership model is a strategy worth exploring to address the challenges of successfully implementing quality and patient safety innovations in hospitals.

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