Leading the way in veterinary nursing
This course has been designed specifically for veterinary nurses who are currently in leadership positions or who aspire to be leaders. Developed to ensure that VN leaders are empowered with all the skills they require to successfully lead, manage, and motivate their teams; this course offers a practical approach to some of the challenges that might be faced in the role. This course offers the opportunity for veterinary nurses to develop as leaders, understand practice culture, communicate confidently and courageously and develop techniques to thrive as leaders.
The course is underpinned by a real-time discussion forum where you can ask any questions as you work your way through the lessons. There are also live Q&A sessions where you can chat with our speaker and other course delegates about the content or those challenging situations that you might be facing right now that you might need a little support with.
This course will run over a 9 week period and is the equivalent of (11 hours CPD/CE) for your record.
Access to this course is for 12 months from the start of the course going live on our website. If you sign up to the course after the live sessions have run, you will still be able to access the recordings from the live sessions. The discussion forum will be monitored for the course duration only.
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Course Content
- To define leadership and the skills required for successful leadership.
- To explore leadership through a Human Factors lens.
- To consider the veterinary practices as complex, ultra-dynamic systems and be familiar with the roles of the team.
- To understand human needs and core emotional concerns.
- To consider compassionate leadership.
- To create psychological safety in the teams we lead, build trust and develop relationships.
- To understand the concept of self-leadership.
- To explore the qualities of emotional intelligence and self-leadership.
- To identify personal core values and strengths and weaknesses.
- To discuss what culture is and how it is nurtured.
- To consider the types of culture applicable to healthcare.
- To consider the role of delegation and empowerment in establishing culture.
- To define incivility.
- To understand the impact of incivility.
- To consider how we can promote civility and understand what we can do when faced with incivility.
- To understand why good communication is so important.
- To explore the concepts of transactional analysis and non-violent communication.
- To consider how and when we can use appropriate assertiveness.
- To understand what resilience is and why it is important.
- To consider how we can recognise stress in ourselves and others.
- To develop strategies to build resilience.
- To understand how we make decisions.
- To discover priority management techniques.
- To learn how to delegate effectively.
- To understand the characteristics of consistently high performing teams.
- To consider how to implement ideas.
- To explore how to empower and motivate team members.
- This is your chance to chat with the course speaker and ask any questions that you may have about any of the content that we have covered during the course.
Meet the speakers
Helen Silver-MacMahon
MSc PSCHF, Cert VNECC, DipAVN (surg), Cert SAN, RVN