Transformational Leaders - Create the vision and pave the way for success, making sure we have the knowledge & tools for the practice of professional nursing.
Structural Empowerment - Provides mechanisms for nurses to have a voice in the practice of professional nursing and their daily work life - putting policies, procedures and processes in place - the structures that also support patient care.
Exemplary Professional Practice - The application of nursing's role with patients, families, communities, and the interdisciplinary team; what the practice of professional nursing can achieve.
New Knowledge, Innovations & Improvements - When staff have a positive and supportive environment to practice professional nursing - they will ask questions and look for new information which will lead to changes in practice and improvement in processes and patient care.
Summary - All the elements lead to our ultimate goal - Quality Outcomes. Each element is necessary to support our work - The Practice of Professional Nursing.
Looking at the model this way - you can see how all the concepts connect. Great leaders create and pave the way for the structure for staff to be involved and to do their work - which supports the development of great nurses - which leads them to explore the evidence and look for new and innovative ways to improve patient care - which results in great outcomes. This is what we do at Vanderbilt everyday.
