DON Playbook: The Daily DON: Organizing Your Time, Tasks, and Team1/20/202612:30pm
Presented By:
- Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC
Contact Person:
Proactive Medical Review and Consulting [email protected]
Course Description:
This session focuses on organization and time management for serving effectively as the Director of Nursing, with an emphasis on effective leadership, and staff engagement. There will be an overview of daily responsibilities and expectations, and an examination of successful strategies for delegation of nursing department duties that represent a day in the life of an effective DON.
Learning Objectives
- Review common day-to-day responsibilities of the DON
- Describe processes for nursing systems oversight, and organization/time management.
- Implement an effective strategic planning process for delegation of nursing department duties and staff engagement.
Course Content
- 20 minutes Review of common daily and weekly responsibilities
- 15 minutes Review of common monthly and quarterly responsibilities
- 10 minutes Strategies for effective planning and delegation of nursing department duties
- 10 minutes Tips for ongoing nursing systems oversight
- 5 minutes Closing Comments/Q&A
Target Audience: Nursing Leadership staff (DON, ADON, Unit Managers, Nursing Supervisors)
Instructional Level: Basic to Intermediate
Program Length: 1 hour
List Learning Objectives: What participants will gain from attending this session:
Content: Bullet-point list of information covered to meet learning objective:
1. Review common day-to-day responsibilities of the DON
- Review of Delegation of Duties Document
- Prioritizing Nursing oversight by frequency
- Review of Daily tasks
- Review of Weekly tasks
- Review of Monthly tasks
- Review of Quarterly tasks
- Review of Annual tasks
2. Describe processes for nursing systems oversight, and organization/time management
- Monitoring methods to ensure nursing systems oversight
- Techniques for Nursing leader organization and time management
3. Implement an effective strategic planning process for delegation of nursing department duties and staff engagement.
- Strategies for delegation of nursing system tasks
- Using the Delegation of Duties Document for staff orientation and training
- Delegation of nursing tasks to promote engagement