What Nurse Leaders and Adult Nurses Can Learn From Their Pediatric Nursing Colleagues:: A Leadership Change Perspective

Abstract

There is a focus on the importance of the close partnership between the care team and the patient and family unit in pediatric units that differs from adult units with the approach and measures used. An opportunity exists to use similar measures with adult patients. By recognizing the importance of the patient and family partnership, an openness to explore alternative measures to provide excellence in human caring becomes evident. Pediatric nurse leaders can share tactics that are used in pediatrics in the adult population that may not have been considered previously. There is a focus on the importance of the close partnership between the care team and the patient and family unit in pediatric units that differs from adult units with the approach and measures used. An opportunity exists to use similar measures with adult patients. By recognizing the importance of the patient and family partnership, an openness to explore alternative measures to provide excellence in human caring becomes evident. Pediatric nurse leaders can share tactics that are used in pediatrics in the adult population that may not have been considered previously. Courtnay Elizabeth Caufield, DNP, RN, MSN, CENP, CNML, NE-BC, RN-BC, is the Executive Director of Pediatric Services, Childrens Health Institute and Interim Executive Director for Women's Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She can be reached at [email protected] .