Power Up: Enhancing Self-Awareness to Lead Through Complexity
Structural inequities and power imbalance add significant complexity for patients and team members in interprofessional care teams. We need effective strategies to address this complexity, and one approach is relational leadership (RL).
RL is a human-centered approach to working with others that cultivates connection and awareness to increase belonging, collaboration, equity, and impact across health systems. RL is vital for care teams to lead change, advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and navigate the complexities of modern healthcare delivery.
People are multi-faceted, and workshop participants will explore their identities and positionality, including their sources of power. An essential skill of self-management is knowing how our identity impacts our biases and informs our interactions with others, including how we wield power. Addressing power dynamics can reduce complexity by re-distributing power in our practices and creating opportunities for input and decision-making for all members of the team.
Interprofessional healthcare teams must learn RL skills to enhance trust and engagement. If teams do not incorporate a relational mindset, they risk constraining improvement efforts, increasing workforce burnout, and preventing interdependent collaboration. Additionally, power imbalances can impede team-based care, leading to poorer quality and suboptimal clinical outcomes.
Participants will explore simple and immediately applicable skills to put into practice in the workplace to promote the redistribution of power across their teams.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1: Define relational leadership and describe how a relational mindset enhances diverse, interprofessional, mission-driven teams
Learning Objective 2: Identify the lenses impacting our perception and our identity and how those form our biases, beliefs, and assumptions.
Learning Objective 3: Describe the effects of power (what power is, where it comes from, and the difference between power with and power over) and how it fosters equity and inclusion and creates a sense of hopefulness both within ourselves and others.
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (National Center OICPD). The National Center OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
The National Center OICPD (JA#: 4008105) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs).
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with their participation.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Athletic Trainers: This program is eligible for Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Learners can claim CE credit by completing the Daily Evaluation.