title: Preparing Leaders in Maternal-Child Health Nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe leadership and patient outcomes from an international leadership development program undertaken by a nursing organization (Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing) in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Corporate Contributions to strengthen the leadership base of maternal-child bedside nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Pretest/posttest design with no control group program evaluation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Health care facilities, academic institutions, and public health clinics.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mentor/fellow dyads (N = 100) of the Maternal-Child Health Nurse Leadership Academy (MCHNLA).
  
  
  METHODS
  The MCHNLA engaged participants in an 18-month mentored leadership experience within the context of an interdisciplinary team project. Each mentor/fellow dyad was paired with a faculty member during the program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred dyads have participated and conducted projects to improve health care for childbearing women and children up to age 5 years during the past decade. For the two cohorts for which consistent data were obtained, mentors and fellows enhanced leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Review of 2010 to 2011 cohort project reports revealed they had the potential to influence more than 1000 students, 4000 nurses, and 1300 other health care students or professionals during the project period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This leadership development model is replicable in other areas of nursing and other professions.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: Leigh
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Small
authors.forename: Diane L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Spatz
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lessard
authors.forename: Sarah Williams
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Leng
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000193:education*; D008611:Mentors; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration
keywords: Kouzes and Posner transformational leadership model; leadership development; patient outcomes