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Confidence and truthfulness

Your presence on the management board guarantees certainty and truthfulness. In our turbulent health care environment, we face old problems and recent challenges that require immediate solutions and planning. According to Helen Keller, “optimism is the belief that leads to achievement. Without hope and trust, nothing can be done.” That being said, your role on the board puts you able of influence. Your ideas, positions and nursing experiences provide a solid foundation for influence, enhanced by self-confidence and truthfulness.

How are you able to be confident?

  1. Learn from failures, failures and successes.
  2. Be well versed in the subject of dialogue.
  3. Be aware of your body language.
  4. Express your views in a non-threatening and non-judgmental way.
  5. When expressing your comments, be clear and concise.

Your nursing perspective is useful in keeping stakeholders informed in regards to the realities of the issue, evidence-based information, recent research, and stories. What we communicate can impact colleagues, families, communities or society. The information and perspective you share may form the idea of a difficulty that may have political, economic and social implications in each the short and long run.

How are you able to be truthful?

  1. Communicate authenticity through openness, humility and transparency.
  2. Be diligent in discharging your fiduciary duties.
  3. Representing nursing and other disciplines at board meetings.
  4. Communicate to take care of credibility and construct relationships.
  5. If you do not fully understand a difficulty, ask for clarification to achieve full understanding.

According to Mary Beth Kingston, executive vp and chief nursing officer at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee Wisconsin and former AONE board of directors:

A call to motion

When you serve on a board or desire to serve on a board, do not forget that it requires self-confidence and truthfulness. We hope our column will function a tool for reflection and amplifying your influence in your boardroom roles.

American Nurse Leadership Organization. (2015). . Chicago, Illinois. Downloaded from http://www.aone.org/resources/nurse-executive-competency.pdf

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