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Background: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom |
The Clinical Leadership Programme evolved from the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom’s Ward Nursing Leadership Project, which ran from 1994-1997. This initial project aimed to explore the role equivalent to the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Assistant Director of Nursing or Nursing Director focusing on their leadership qualities. Significantly the project explored ways “to improve the quality of care patients receive”1.
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South Australia led the way in bringing the Clinical Leadership Programme to Australia. The Royal Adelaide Hospital, through the initiative of the Director of Nursing, Anaesthesia, Allied Health and General Service, Associate Professor Leslye Long, negotiated with the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom, as well as the (then) Department of Human Services (now the Department of Health) in South Australia, to bring the Clinical Leadership Programme to South Australia. The Department funded the introductory Programme, anticipating that it would assist in the retention of senior level health care professionals in the State. |
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Message from Executive Sponsor |
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It is my great pleasure to welcome you all here to the Clinical Leadership Programme in Australia™ website. For many years I and many other nurse leaders were concerned about the lack of recognition of the leadership component of the senior nurse role and the lack of formal preparation for this aspect of their role. |
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The primary aim of the Clinical Leadership Programme is to achieve safe quality person centred care by assisting health care professionals to develop leadership strategies to deal with the realities of day to day practice.
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About the Programme 