Dr. Sellars Educate

Hi Lifelong Learners! Are you interested in taking the Certified Nurse Educator course?  If yes, take a look at the snapshot of Competency 5 and subscribe to my YouTube channel to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpzqDFTXliMjJ69Gyq56uPQ/videos  Yours truly, Nurse Leader Today

📚    Nurse Educator-How do I get started? 📕 In the challenging times that we are living in with a national pandemic, financial ruins, and social injustice, education is more critical than ever.  📌 So, how do we engage with our learners to equip them with the knowledge they need to provide quality nursing care? Well, it begins with the understanding of how learning happens and the value of engagement and connection.  📖 Educating the most trusted profession in America is a privilege and honor. It's a form of servant leadership and hope you'll go on this journey with me as I kick off the next several blogs sharing my experiences and thoughts on the Nurse Educator role and why our time is NOW!💥 💎 Here are a few keys to us getting started... 💡 #1: What is your current role? ~If you're in a staff nurse role, let your manager know that you're interested in nursing education. ~If you're in a leadership role, let your manager know about your passion and develop a ...

Word clouds can influence patient care, and help us better understand complex issues we experience in healthcare everyday.  Here is an excerpt of an article written by me, and several of my colleagues about the influence word clouds can have... Healthcare is experiencing intense, unprecedented reformation. The workforce is becoming increasingly diverse, dispersed, and more horizontally aligned, requiring more collaboration than competition. Leadership styles associated with improved patient outcomes, increased teamwork, and reduced medical errors are needed to change culture and transform the healthcare environment. Word clouds, also known as tag clouds or term clouds, are an emerging technology for analyzing qualitative data. It's recommended to use word clouds as dashboards because they provide easy, quick, and meaningful analysis of qualitative data. Word clouds summarize or analyze text data and provide meaningful interpretations through text size and color....

There is power in nursing, and we should work collaboratively to ensure quality patient care is delivered 24/7.   As a leader, we should empower our teams to act on what they know, and instill confidence in their own ability to be successful (Huber, 2018). The power of leadership can transcend the healthcare environment to one of high quality, great patient satisfaction, and great enjoyment and satisfaction for staff. The leader must have values of trust, respect, and self-worth. These values will sustain and support the leader as they maneuver their various phases of their role as manager, leader, peer, advisor, counselor, disciplinarian, and even friend. As a new manager, it takes time to get to know staff. It’s a tough start because most nursing management positions need you to hit the ground running, yet, take the time to connect with staff is critical to your success. The value of getting to know staff, and connecting with them is the breeding ground for developing trus...

Now that we've started the conversation about the importance of nurses being educated at the BSN-level, let's dig dipper into the cost of education.  As politicians continue to talk about the debt that college graduates are being faced with, I don't see alot of legislation that is bringing us any relief. The Committee on Education and the Workforce continues to discuss the challenges on their website https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402070 Until next time, Your Nurse Leader Today

It's been a while since I've posted, and alot has changed!!   Just to catch you up...I've had my 1st CNO job (for 2 years, and I learned alot) and now finally I'm blessed to serve in my passion as an academic leader in the role of Director of RN-BSN Option and Associate Professor at Winston-Salem State University.   Enough about me...let's get to the topic of this post, BSN in 10 for RNs in NY legislation has been signed by Governor Cuomo.  I'm not going to get into the details about the politics, but will focus on the impact that this legislation will have on our nursing profession.   There are several benefits with this legislation, and it's highlighted very nicely in this article from 2008.   1. Nursing leaders are increasing their tuition reimbursements to help support this initiative.  -Going back to school is expensive, and many private institutions are charging twice as much as public institutions.   -To really...