Resources
For Nurses
As a nurse, you can make a unique contribution to achieving the goals of improved health and efficient and effective health care systems at the local, state and national levels. Our goal is to build healthier communities in America by increasing nurses’ presence on corporate, health-related, and other boards, panels, and commissions. The following are resources to help you on your journey to becoming board ready!
Helpful Documents
- Board Core Competencies
- Preparation and Education Resources
- Getting on Board – created in collaboration with the American Nurses Foundation, funded in part through the generous support of the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Articles
- Resources for Current and Aspiring Nurse Leaders – Dr. Jan Jones-Schenk, DSC, RN, and NE-BC Academic Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer, WGU College of Health Professions
- Answering the Call for Nurses on Boards – Rita Wray, MBA, RN, BC, FAAN, The Chamberlain, January 17, 2018
- Everyday Advocacy: Nurses serving on Boards – Lisa J. Sundean, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts Boston
- What Will This Year Bring for Nurses? – Medscape January 26, 2018
- Nurses – Get on Board! – Lippincott NursingCenter blog
- From the bedside to the boardroom: Are you ready to serve? – American Nurse Today July 2017 Vol. 12 No. 7
- Lippincott NursingCenter leadership blog series “Nurses on Boards: Building a Healthier America”
- Serving on Boards Allows Nurses to Improve the Nation’s Health – ONS Voice April 2017
- Nurses on Boards: My Experience on the Moonshot – Deborah Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN. Oncology Nursing Forum 2016
- Empowering Nurses to Serve on Boards – Brenda B. Petersen, PhD, MSN, RN, APN-C, CPNP-PC Associate Dean of the School of Nursing & Public Health at Caldwell University
Useful Links
- American Academy of Nursing Institute for Nursing Leadership
- American Hospital Association (AHA) Trustee Services
- BoardSource
- Campaign for Action Leadership Activities
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety Program
- Center for Healthcare Governance
- Center for Nonprofit Excellence
- CompassPoint Non Profit Services
- Governance for Quality and Safety Program
- National Council of Nonprofits
- Nurses and the Business of Caring: An Interview with John Bluford [Podcast]
- Preparing Nurse Leaders: An Interview the F. Patrick Robinson, PhD, RN, FAAN [Podcast]
- Standards for Excellence Institute
- The Governance Institute
- Trusteeship Magazine (Higher Education)
FREE Webinars
- The History and Mission of NOBC
- Building a Board-Ready Resume
This webinar was made possible through the generous support of the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation and the American Nurses Foundation - How to be an Effective Health Care Organization Board Member: Special Focus on Compliance
- Nurses at the Table: Training Modules for Board Service
The Wisconsin Center for Nursing board service training modules - Nurses on Boards 101
From the PAAC-PONL Future of Nursing Webinar “Leadership and the Nurses on Boards Coalition” - Nurses on Boards in Kansas: A Kansas Action Coalition Series
Session 1: Board Basics | Session 2: Finance Basics
Special acknowledgment to the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action for the content and graphics presented on slides 16-19 in Session 1 - Serving on a Corporate Board: Uncover If It’s for You & Where to Start
This webinar has been provided compliments of Women in the Boardroom
Videos
Board Meeting Simulation
Wonder what it’s like to attend a board meeting? Watch this 90 minute board meeting simulation experience provided to Ohio nurses in 2017. The board packet is available here for you to follow along. Video is courtesy of the Ohio Action Coalition.
Board Roles and Responsibilities – Active Participation
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNPE), a program of United Way of Central New Mexico, offers this free video discussing board roles and responsibilities and the critical role played in ensuring sustainability.
Leading Change Through Board/Committee Appointments
At the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s Leadership and Legacy Summit in Phoenix, three panelists discussed the importance of nurses’ service on boards, and tips for getting appointed to a board. This hour-long conversation, facilitated by Sue Hassmiller, senior adviser for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, is a must-watch for anyone who has considered board service and what it takes to get there.
Lessons in Leadership: The Betty Irene Moore Speaker Series
Lessons in Leadership is a collection of 13 short videos featuring nationally-recognized leaders in nursing or health care who share the strategies that shaped their career and the lessons they learned. The leaders include CEO, executive directors and board members of the nation’s leading health care and nursing organizations; several recipients of “Living Legend” awards; faculty members from top universities; and influential policy advisors. All of them began their careers as nurses.
Transforming Health Care Through Nurse Leadership
Nurses can help transform the nation’s health care system, create healthier communities, and build a Culture of Health. But what are the keys to becoming a nurse leader? Be willing to step outside of your comfort zone, seek a mentor, and more: Leaders from the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and the 2014 Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing share their advice.
Education Offers
ANA Leadership Institute
Nurses on Boards
Nurses getting a “seat at the table” has been a long-standing issue for the profession. Serving on boards is a key component for any nurse trying to elevate their career and the profession as a whole, enabling them to make decisions and have a lasting and profound impact on issues impacting nurse safety, patient care and outcomes, and the culture of nursing as a whole. This webcast covers why it’s important to a nurse’s career and to the profession as a whole to serve on boards. It also details strategies on how to get to serve on boards – what skills nurses need to do so in order to succeed and the process for getting a board seat.
Sigma Board Leadership Institute
The Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) represents national nursing and other organizations working to build healthier communities in America by increasing nurses’ presence on corporate, health-related, and other boards, panels, and commissions.