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Goals

• Advance educational change and responsiveness to the leadership challenges of the nursing workforce
• Promote closer relationships between nursing educators and employers who depend on education programs to produce a workforce prepared for the leadership challenges of the next century
• Create and disseminate innovative leadership curricula and other learning experiences for baccalaureate-level nursing programs
• Provide Fellows with technical assistance through access to an on-going electronic communications network.
• Promote development and implementation of curricular change at participants home institutions.

Activities

Each five-day institute will consist of the following components:

• Leadership Development: Provides nurse educators with the skills and competencies needed to serve as a model for their students and develop new nursing leaders
• Curriculum Design Workshop: Provides an opportunity for each team of Fellows to develop new baccalaureate-level leadership development curricula and programs
• Critique/Implementation Planning: Fellows review and critique each other's curriculum plans. Program faculty facilitate a discussion on implementing change, and in particular, developing strategies to confront barriers to change and innovation at the institutional level.
• On-going participation: Fellows remain active in the program by participating in a communication network of program graduates. Fellows are expected to develop and implement their leadership curriculum at their home institution.
• Evaluation: A follow-up survey is conducted to determine the effectiveness of the new curricula, institutional barriers encountered during implementation and student responses to new leadership courses

The grant supporting the LINE program concluded on December 31, 2001. To receive announcements of future activities, send your name, institution and e-mail address to jenv@itsa.ucsf.edu.