MISSION
The mission of the Alabama Board of Nursing (ABN) Leadership Institute (LI) is to provide educational opportunities to improve patient care, promote public protection, increase regulatory knowledge, and enhance nursing leadership throughout the state.
VISION
Develop effective nursing leadership that is transformative and improves communication, collaborative, and fosters paradigm shifts that improve the general health and protection of the public for Alabama.
GOAL
The ABN Leadership Institute’s framework is one of progressive learning appropriate to the hierarchy of various health care settings. The goal is to educate nurses on management issues, nursing regulation, and quality initiatives that improve patient care. The ABN will offer numerous educational classes to strengthen nursing leadership skills and assist the nurse in driving change to improve every aspect of patient care, regardless of the of the specific clinical setting. All nurses have a part to play in public protection and we know that knowledge grows and patient care transforms through education and access to information.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
The ABN developed the Leadership institute to improve public protection and patient care through a series on educational opportunities that are foundational to professional growth and development as a staff nurse and as a nurse leader. Improving patient care and public protection through education allows the ABN to provide a broad curriculum that begins at the individual level by improving communication in all settings and at all levels of access to care. Drawing on over one hundred years of regulatory experience, we recognize that communication is foundational for individual growth and for appropriate patient care. Nurses are the gatekeepers on the front line of advocacy for the patient, so they must know how to communicate effectively to patients, families, peers, and persons in authority.
OBJECTIVES
The foundational objective of the Alabama Nursing Leadership Institute is to continuously provide for and improve communication, competency and education for nurse licensees and
nurse leaders within the state. This will be achieved by:
- Establishing an educational framework and curriculum plan that provides for training in regulatory standards, nursing leadership, communication, collaboration, and problem
solving. - Creating multiple online continuing education (CE) opportunities that enhance education and professional development for nurses, licensees, students, nurse leaders, and the public.
- Ensuring that data assists in the development and design of online CE programs designed to close knowledge gaps for licensees.
- Utilizing patterns in ABN disciplinary data, as applicable, to drive components of continuing education development annually to ultimately improve public safety and eliminate licensee knowledge deficits.
- Encouraging graduate and doctoral nursing students to participate and become engaged in providing education for licensees and the public in the state.
- Developing and conducting leadership training for charge nurses, nurse leaders, nursing directors, and chief nursing officers that is transformative to daily practice and improve
public protection. - Providing annual educational seminars for licensees and nurse leaders.
- Promoting attendance and completion of all levels of the Leadership Institute.
