Nursing at UF Health

This yearlong fellowship is designed to provide RN participants at UF Health Shands with the experiences, insight, competencies and skills necessary to serve in a formal and informal leadership role.

The program offers competency and skill development opportunities through the following means:

• Leadership development seminars and workshops
• Individual learning/career development plans
• Coaching and mentoring
• Leadership project development, implementation and evaluation

Fellowship activities focus on self-knowledge, vision, risk-taking and creativity, interpersonal and communication effectiveness, inspiring and leading change, and a variety of business management topics.

This yearlong fellowship is created for professionals who aspire to higher-level leadership and management positions by developing leadership skills at the organizational level, incorporating mentorship, didactic experiences and collaborative team projects.

Nurse applicants must have:

• BSN degree or higher
• Specialty board certification
• Current or prior leadership experience or graduate of the Emerging Leader Fellowship

Curriculum topics include leadership, project management, human resources, health care finance, budgetary planning, legal and regulatory environment in health care, and working with state and federal legislative bodies.

The Professional Practice Recognition Program provides monetary recognition for bedside nurses who wish to advance their careers through demonstrated individual excellence in the following areas:

• Clinical education and certification
• Professional accomplishments
• Clinical adaptability

Annual opportunities may include participation in research, publishing and/or community outreach initiatives. The program is open to all registered nurses with excellent clinical skills and at least one year of satisfactory performance as a unit resource person at UF Health Shands Hospital.

Our centralized and unit-based Shared Governance structures empower frontline professional nursing staff to collectively impact their practice and patient outcomes. The governance model recognizes the clinical expertise and decision-making abilities of nurses and provides the opportunity for participation on policymaking councils.

UF Health Shands Nursing recognizes the benefit of utilizing specially-trained resource nurses to provide unit-based leadership within a variety of clinical and administrative focus areas.

We are committed to supporting and encouraging professional advancement of our nurses and have programs in place to remove the financial barriers of obtaining specialty board certification and advanced degrees.