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San Francisco, June 12, 2000-- The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (RWJF) today announced a new group of 15 nurse executives
who will receive a three-year fellowship through the RWJ Executive
Nurse Fellows Program.
Now in its third year, the fellowship is a national
leadership program for experienced nurses in executive roles who are
poised to lead and shape the US health care system for the future.
The RWJF program is unique because of the individualized
attention focused on each fellow. Major components of the program
include the completion of a core leadership curriculum, seminar
and workshop sessions, pursuit of an individual learning plan, completion
of an individual project, and a mentor relationship with a highly
experienced leader.
"Given our rapidly changing health care system,
strong leaders in the nursing profession are vital to provide a
vision and direction not just for the profession, but for the entire
system," said program director Marilyn Chow, DNSc, RN, FAAN.
The RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program focuses on
five key leadership competencies in the emerging health care system:
- Self knowledge
- Strategic vision
- Risk-taking and creativity
- Interpersonal and communication effectiveness
- Inspiring and leading change
Each fellowship includes $45,000 to be spent over
three years to support self-directed learning activities, independent
study, and access to an electronic communications network. Another
component of the program requires each fellow to undertake a high-level
project in their home institution.
The program is managed by the Center for Health Professions
at the University of California, San Francisco.
The fellowships are open to senior level nurses in executive roles
in health services, public/community health, and nursing education.
Successful applications will demonstrate the potential to advance
to higher levels of leadership.
A roster of the new RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows is
listed below. Applications for 2001 are due February 1, 2001. For
application materials, visit the Center for the Health Professions
website: futurehealth.ucsf.edu, or contact: Matt Weldon, Program
Assistant, at 415/502-6451 or by email at rwjenfp@itsa.ucsf.edu.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton,
N.J., is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to
health and health care.
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