Effective Leadership to Foster Civility and Transform Nursing Education

Incivility and bullying behavior can devastate the health care environment and negatively affect patient care. Purposeful leadership is needed at all levels of nursing to transform the culture from one of dissatisfaction and distrust to one of high employee satisfaction and respect. This interactive workshop will describe and apply an evidence-based transformational change framework to successfully effect organizational change, to motivate nurses to take an active role in creating civil workplaces, and will stimulate and inspire dialogue on the role that nurses play in leading and sustaining positive change.