What does the nursing workforce look like today? The demographics are changing as baby boomers begin to retire and the number of millennials have doubled in the workforce. With a drive to make a difference, be understood, and thrive, millennials generally have certain aspirations for professional development and influencing their environment.

This 1.5 course provides nurses with an update on the response to the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine’ s, recommendations for the future of nursing, describing the progress toward the eight recommendations for transforming nursing practice and the ways nurses can be part of moving the future of nursing forward.

Transformational leadership has been shown to be particularly effective in uncertain environments, such as those found in today’s healthcare organizations. This module discusses what transformational leadership is, why transformational leadership is a key part of Magnet nursing organizations and how it can promote work satisfaction among nurses and improve care for patients.

A key element of the Future of Nursing Report focuses on the need to double the number of doctorate-prepared nurses by 2020. This activity provides information on three terminal degrees relevant to nursing practice, PhD, DNP, and EdD, in terms of typical scope, purpose, and career progression.

Structural empowerment includes staff involvement in structures of an organization that result in an empowered nursing professional practice. It increases nursing autonomy, promoting the highest levels of clinical excellence, and professional practice. Nurses in these environments enjoy job satisfaction, autonomy and dedication to their organizations.

Do you feel empowered to navigate your career? Are you trying to decide which specialty to pursue, how to begin your professional nursing career, or how to make a change to an existing career? Learn about how you can make your personality characteristics work for you by considering correlated nursing specialties and environments you might enjoy more than others.

Mentoring is not new to nursing; however, nurses often confuse mentoring with other career development relationships, such as coaching, precepting or peer strategizing. This module offers information about the mentor/protégé relationship, the benefits of such relationships and how to go about establishing one.

Leaders in nursing, from the senior management team to the charge nurse and the staff nurse on the front line, can improve performance, facilitate exceptional teamwork, and enhance professional development with coaching. The concepts and coaching skills described in this 5.60 contact hour course will provide the map to transforming your unit and your organization.

Gallup polls reveal that the public has a high level of trust in nurses. The public has little understanding of what nurses do and doesn’t think of them as key players in healthcare. This module provides an overview on nursing and its image and how nurses can enhance the public’s perception of nursing by taking action individually and as a profession.