Finding the Balance in Nursing Education Management

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Finding the Balance in Nursing Education
Management

• Dr Sharon Vasuthevan
• NEA Conference
• NMMU 15 November 2006

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Change, Change and more Change!!!!

• Legislation
• Workplace practices
• Human resources
• Technology
• Funding

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Definition of major change

• PERSONAL shifts in values, aspirations and
  behaviours
• Usually accompanied by
• ORGANISATIONAL shifts in processes, strategies,
  practices and systems

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Change is disruptive

• Control becomes an issue
• Fears are raised
• Opportunities seen

Current State
Future way of working
The way people work now
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And challenging

• Threatens/Disrupts persons
• Competence
• Confidence
• Comfort
• Control
• Capacity

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Legislation

• South African Qualifications Authority Act
• Skills Development Act
• Employment Equity Act
• Higher Education Act
• General Further Education Training Act
• Nursing Act

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Strategies

• Higher Education Plan
• Skills Development Strategy
• Human Resource Development Strategy
• Further Education Training Certificate
• General Education Training Certificate

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"The best of times and the worst of times".

• Employers are being sold on training due the
  skills shortage in the country.
• Virtual consensus amongst executives that
  learning must be a major factor in their ongoing
  strategies for business success

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Focus on the solution
Success
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Times - Nursing Education
Past Nursing Education
Highly regulated Predictable Standardized Single
ETQA
Current
New legislation Multiple ETQAs Disorganized Unpred
ictable Challenging
Future
?
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Balancing Act for Managers
Physical Resources
Regulating Authorities
Staff
Learners
Employer needs
Programmes
Legislation
Financial control
Research
Human resources demands
Clinical resources
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Focus

• Focus on what you are doing in your present job -
  Passion will shine through
• Your performance will lead you to your next job -
  Dont think about your next job
• People will want to take a chance on you because
  of your performance

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Leader versus Manager

• Leader
• Creates something new
• Sees what others dont see
• See possibilities/take risks

• Manager
• Organize
• Process
• Work hard
• Mitigate risks

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21st Century Leadership Changes

• Information is no longer power.
• No longer barriers of time, access and wealth
• Technology can unlock human potential empower
  people
• Once every process becomes digital, virtual,
  mobile and personal anyone can lead
• Role of authority is different

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Leadership

• Requires moving beyond subject matter experts
• Leaders can access SMEs to figure it out
• Most SMEs like to share their knowledge and
  opinions Ask for help
• 2. Requires understanding that common sense and
  logic are important
• Never underestimate the power of the right
  question, common sense and logic

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Leadership (cont)

• 3. The ability to provide a suitable alternative
• Criticism, problem identification are easier
• Suggesting alternatives and solutions are
  difficult
• 4. Overcoming FEAR
• Scary to lead risk taking
• Many people have the potential to lead few take
  it most of them are afraid to take a risk or
  make a stand
• Leadership happens in big ways and small ways -
  in a family, community, city, country, field of
  work

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Leadership (cont)

• 5. Leadership requires TRUST
• People you are leading put their trust in you
• Leadership cannot happen alone
• When you trust people, they can succeed you,
  betray you or assist you.
• Trust determines success or failure
• 6.Requires BALANCE
• Balance is the art of leadership
• Not valued very much swing between the extremes
• Balance between profit and growth business

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Universal Balance Points

• Optimism and realism
• Leaders have to be optimistic
• Ability to know that things will change for the
  better
• Opposites Pessimists(worse), Cynics(no faith),
  Sceptics( fence sitters)
• Reaism is understanding the barriers, SWOT,
  difficulties
• Unrealistic leaders will not succeed or achieve
  the goal

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Universal Balance Points

• 2. Consistency Flexibility
• Consistency is about predicatability,people know
  what the leader believes in and wants to achieve
• Goals do not change frequently
• Flexibility things happen e.g. sailing, you do
  not sail in a straight line, we tack.
• Leaders can change the path or change the tactics

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Universal Balance Points

• 3. Confidence humility
• Confidence that you can make a difference take
  a risk
• Humility you cannot do it alone
• Leaders dont know everything. Know what you know
  and what you dont know.
• Best leaders are those who surround themselves
  with people who are different to themselves
  complicated but there will be a better outcome
  different thinking!

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Leaders are Present

• Effective leaders bring all of themselves to the
  job
• Understand the big picture and the detail
• Cannot have big picture but not understand the
  detail
• Execution without strategy is problematic
• Strategy without execution is futile

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Leadership requires an Internal Compass

• Never sell your soul. No one can pay you back!
• There will be many things to throw you off course
• Leaders get lots of advice, but take decisions
  alone
• Know who you are and what you believe in
• Dont make choices or trade offs that dont feel
  right

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Leadership Authenticity

• Leadership is not about style all leadership
  styles work in different situations
• Cannot fake it
• Use your head, listen to your gut and heart
• Ask the same of your followers
• Be present in all of your job or tasks

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Leadership is a Choice

• Leadership is not about power, titles, pay
  cheques etc
• It is a CHOICE that anyone can make
• It is about raising peoples sights, making them
  see what they could not see and helping the
  achieve more than they thought possible

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Leadership is.

• Focussing on possibilities
• Capability
• Collaboration
• Character

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Circle of Influence
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If life is an auditorium, where are you sitting?
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Seating

• Front row participating
• Back row detached
• Middle row sitting on the fence

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Only the crazy will survive
In this generation of nursing education
managers..

• IQ EQ HUGG MaD

Intelligence Emotional Intelligence Huge
Unbelievably Great Goals Making a difference
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Nursing Education from
Great
Future Nursing Education
What is inside the box?
Good or OK
Current Nursing Education

• Attitude
• Confidence
• Will power
• Commitment
• Perceptions of yourself
• Expectations
• Perseverance
• Goals

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Which room are you in?
Regeneration
Complacency
Chaos
Denial
Basement (or death)
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BIG 5

• Choose a positive attitude
• Understand the impact
• Set HUGGS
• Develop resilience
• Take personal responsibility

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Get Organized
Information is power!
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Create a forum for networking

• Share current information
• Lobby on nursing education issues
• Establish your own professional website
• Make representations to top level persons
• Protect your interest
• Encourage participation

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Be at the cutting edge!
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Get involved
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Get involved

• Present papers
• Write about your experiences
• Set high standards for yourself
• Share success stories
• Engage in research

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