The large-scale, first-of-its-kind call for nurse leaders' best practices and innovations will become a resource to address key nursing workforce issues.
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) has extended the deadline on the call for best workforce best practices and innovations from nurse leaders.
Submissions are now due on Friday, September 9. Those submissions will become part of a growing digest of resources for nurse leaders to address key nursing workforce issues by focusing on what has worked and can be used to facilitate changes in other organizations.
AONL and the AONL Workforce Committee ask nurse leaders to share their examples and scenarios, with an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging examples, in seven key workforce areas:
- Frontline nurse leader recruitment and retention
- Talent acquisition and attraction
- Leadership
- Compensation and benefits
- Academic-clinical partnerships
- Positive practice environment
- Culture of inquiry
AONL’s workforce committee and subcommittees, under the leadership of Deb Zimmerman DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN and Claire Zangerle, DNP, RN, FAONL, FAAN, will evaluate submitted best practices and innovations, structure recommendations, including models of care delivery, and leadership responsibility and education for each of the seven topic areas.
The digest of resources, to be released in three sections starting in October 2022, will highlight real-life scenarios and stories from front-line leaders, AONL says. It will go beyond published literature and focus on successful strategies used to effectively improve the work setting and support nurse leaders.
Though the initial deadline is September 9, AONL will be collecting best practices on an ongoing basis to keep the resources updated. For inquiries, contact Ronda Hughes.
Carol Davis is the Nursing Editor at HealthLeaders, an HCPro brand.