title: Health care leadership academy: a statewide collaboration to enhance nursing leadership competencies.
abstract: Competency in leadership skills is necessary to manage in the current chaotic health care environment and proactively participate in the creation of a better environment. Although interest in pursuing a career in health care is growing, lack of leadership competence contributes to employee frustration and dissatisfaction, which directly and indirectly impacts the supply of health care workers. To addressthe lack of leadership competence and its disturbing consequences, the Arizona nursing community designed a model for nursing leadership and created a partnership to provide a high-quality, affordable leadership education program focused on enhancing the leadership competencies of frontline nursing supervisors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Marla J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Weston
authors.forename: Betty
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Falter
authors.forename: Gerri S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mahon
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Malloch
authors.forename: Keith G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Provan
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roe
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Werbylo
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009726:Nurses; D011361:Professional Competence; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation