Join us for the next Nurse Policy Entrepreneur Café!
📅 Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
⏰ Time: 12:00pm Eastern
💻 Location: Virtual Meeting (Register here)
This Month's Topic: 🤝 The Nurse Diplomat 🤝
In an increasingly complex landscape, nurses are uniquely positioned to lead with diplomacy, fostering collaboration, advocacy, and meaningful change. As trusted professionals with firsthand knowledge of patient care and systemic challenges, nurses serve as essential bridges between policymakers, administrators, and patients.
Diplomatic leadership in nursing requires strong communication skills, cultural competence, and the ability to navigate diverse perspectives to drive policy and practice improvements. Whether engaging in legislative discussions, negotiating healthcare reforms, or advocating for patient-centered policies, nurses who lead with diplomacy can influence decision-making while maintaining professional integrity and fostering mutual respect.
This month's discussion will explore how nurses can cultivate diplomatic leadership, engage in constructive dialogue, and build alliances to advance healthcare initiatives. By embracing diplomacy, nurses can not only enhance patient outcomes but also shape the future of the profession and the broader healthcare system through thoughtful, strategic engagement.
About the Café:
The Nurse Policy Entrepreneur (NPE) Café seeks to be the go-to compendium and location for all nurses interested in becoming effective policy entrepreneurs by learning from one another through professional dialogue.
We envision that nurses at all levels will be inspired to become thought leaders and full partners with other disciplines to reform and improve the quality of healthcare policies at the local, state, national, and global levels. We support a diversity of all nurses, regardless of education, experience, or practice setting, to express their desire to advocate for others through policy-making and implementation.
The NPE Café is not about societal issues, but about creating a safe and productive environment to prepare nurses to address them. Because we are neither funded nor affiliated with any nursing association or organization, we are free to build this supportive structure as an emerging, pertinent, and relevant mechanism to support the necessary growth of nurses' knowledge, skills, abilities, and confidence to be change agents for healthcare reform. There is no cost or subscription since we rely solely on the kindness of volunteers.
Think about the Café as if you were sitting in a coffee shop with friends deeply entrenched in a productive and lively discussion!
We meet online monthly @ 12pm Eastern, every 2nd Saturday of the month.
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Ongelique Conflenti MSc, RN, PCCN
Brooklyn NY
United States
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