October 8, 2010
DRAFT - Executive Nurse Fellows Program Logic Model
September 14, 2010
A cadre of nursing leaders with enhanced leadership capacity who drive improvements
in 1) population health, 2) access, cost and quality of American health care systems, and 3)
the identification and formation of future health professionals.
Program Activities
Executive Nurse Fellows
fully engage in multiple
program components:
Seven F2F sessions
over 3 years
Action Learning Team
projects (years 1-2)
Individual coaching
and mentoring
Intersession activities
including webinars,
myCCL, etc.
Individual Leadership
Project (year 3)
Post program
leadership
development activities
Engagement with
networks: within
cohort, with other
ENFP cohorts, NAC,
and alumni
Short-term - Outcomes (1-3 years)
Intermediate Outcomes (2-6 years)
Fellows improve skills as leaders at four
levels and begin to impact health care
system by more effectively:
ENFP alumni integrate and apply skills to
create:
Leading Self: Increasing self awareness,
developing adaptability, managing
self/resiliency, learning agility, leading with
purpose
Leading Others: Managing teams, building
and maintaining relationships, leveraging
diversity and difference, developing others,
communicating effectively
Leading Organizations: Leading change,
making decisions, managing politics and
influencing others, boundary spanning,
setting vision and strategy, and exerting
transformative leadership
Leading in Health Care: Appreciating paths
to leadership and unique challenges and
opportunities of leadership on boards/expert
panels and through professional
organizations, inter-professional contexts,
political/legislative action, and efforts to
improve health and health care.
Direction
Alignment
Commitment
to…
… improve health and health care programs,
policies, organizations, and systems by…
…creating a culture of leadership
and cross-boundary collaboration
within the nursing profession
…taking on broader responsibility
within their organizations and
through extra-professional
activities
…mentoring and coaching fellows
from other ENFP cohorts
…leveraging their professional
and inter-professional networks
Program Assumptions
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Nurse leaders play a vital role in improving the US health and health care system. The nursing profession makes up the largest segment of the
nation’s healthcare workforce and nurses have a great impact on the quality of patient care.
Accessible, high-quality care cannot be achieved without exceptional nursing care and leadership (2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing).
Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States (2010 IOM
report on the Future of Nursing).
Nurse leaders can be developed to take on new leadership roles and responsibilities in the turbulent and complex future of health and health
care.
This program will contribute to the development of a pipeline of highly competent and innovative nurse leaders.
Applicants will be drawn from an exceptional, ample, and diverse applicant pool.
Fellows from each cohort will fully participate in all components of a three-year program.
The design and length of the program will provide a depth of development that will lead to sustainable change.
Alumni will stay engaged in the alumni network and post program activities.
Fellows will apply what they learn in ENFP to their work and to extra-professional activities focused on improving health and healthcare
systems.
Fellows will engage with each other, alumni, faculty, and the NAC in ways that create a long-term, supportive community within this network.