Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses
Program Overview
- Self-paced video-based sessions
- Online readings & resources
- Start any time
- Live Zoom session with faculty upon course completion
Transform Your Nursing Leadership Impact—on Your Own Schedule
Nurse managers are one of the principal frontline workers in health care. They must possess sophisticated management skills and strategic vision to drive organizational success. Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses helps mid-level nurse managers transform into leaders with foundational concepts to excel in their roles, improve health outcomes, and implement change in their departments to fix issues they experience first-hand.
Led by distinguished Harvard faculty and industry experts, Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses participants will master essential leadership competencies that help them move into leadership roles, including performance management strategies, negotiation skills, financial management, and more. Program participants will also learn analytic frameworks to help them make progress through quality improvements, allowing participants to immediately implement and share new skills within their group.
The program was also designed as an online self-paced program to serve working nurses better. After registering, you will be able to—at your own pace, over seven sessions—learn how to lead your team to create better health outcomes for your patients.
Program Details
Career Benefits:
- Learn contemporary leadership frameworks for health care settings
- Develop advanced negotiation and communication skills
- Learn to integrate emerging technologies and AI into health care delivery
- Build technological, financial, and resource management expertise
- Create effective quality improvement initiatives
- Gain practical tools for immediate workplace implementation
- Expert instruction from Harvard faculty and leading health care innovators
- Comprehensive curriculum covering essential leadership competencies
- Interactive online learning format promoting engagement and practical application
- Focus on emerging technologies and AI in health care
- Opportunity to create individual quality improvement projects
- Global perspective on health care leadership
Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses is a flexible, self-paced program that allows you to begin at any time and learn at your own pace. The course features approximately 7-hours of content, including high-quality videos, readings, and exercises developed and taught by esteemed Harvard faculty.
After you submit payment, you’ll receive an email with access to our online learning platform, Canvas. If you have any questions, please contact us at enrollment@hsph.harvard.edu.
Participants will have the opportunity to meet with Program Director Dr. Stephanie Ferguson in a live Zoom session with fellow learners upon completing the course. This intimate, interactive setting offers a valuable chance to debrief course content, discuss career goals, and explore how to build on what you’ve learned with guidance from an esteemed global nurse leader.
Dr. Ferguson has worked in more than 100 nations as a technical advisor, consultant, and facilitator for preeminent global health entities—including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN). She is also a Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard Chan School.
Learn from Expert Harvard Faculty
Program Logistics
- Module 1: 7 C’s of Leadership (Rifat Atun)
- Module 2: Strategies for Performance Management (Stephanie Ferguson)
- Module 3: Financial Management: Basic Principles and Tools of Resource Management (Richard B. Siegrist Jr.)
- Module 4: Negotiations and Effective Communications (Stephanie Ferguson)
- Module 5: Health Care Technology: Implications for Nursing (Heather Mattie)
- Module 6: Quality Improvement & Cost Effectiveness (Stephanie Ferguson)
- Module 7: Framework for Improvement of Health Services Delivery (Stephanie Ferguson)
Current faculty, subject to change
Rifat Atun
Director
Executive and Continuing Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Global Health Systems
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Stephanie Ferguson
Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Faculty Director
Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Heather Mattie
Lecturer on Biostatistics, Co-Director, Health Data Science Master’s Program, Director of EDIB Programs
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Richard B. Siegrist Jr.
Senior Lecturer on Health Care Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 7 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.