Authors

Epifanio Fernández Collado

Position

Catedrático de Enfermería. Director del Máster Universitario en Dirección y Gestión en Enfermería de la Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Contact address

Universidad Europea de Madrid. Urbanización El Bosque, C/ Tajo, s/n. 28070 Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid.

Abstract

This paper comes from the conference I had the chance to give during the 20 Day National Seminar on Nursing Supervision and Nursing Management, held in March 2009 in Valencia (Spain). In it I shared my doubts and experiences as a teacher and manager for over three decades. In this essay I have intentionally kept the format and tone that I used at that time as I wish to keep the intensity with which I prepared the speech and I tried to transmit in the auditorium, with the help of audiovisual media.
In preparing this lecture I wanted, above all, to wonder, to ask myself in order to understand and to think, with the aim to help you to understand my point of view. I tried a phenomenological exercise that has led me to carefully and consciously ask myself about my own project and training experience as a trainer and manager in nursing management and administration.
In other studies, shown in the reference section, you could find a more deliberate, structured, and perhaps more academic approach of my thoughts on the subject of education and management skills in nursing. In this essay I shall speak of those experiential aspects which seem more important after years of both teaching and management, the how and why it is necessary to develop integrative skills when training management nurses, particularly in this time of the development of the European Higher Education Area, with the development of the Degree, Master's degrees and Doctorate in Nursing.
To do this, I will share these brief reflections organized in six categories: 1) Introduction and contextualization; 2) The European Higher Education Area; 3) Nurse Manager: Workplace Relations; 4) A New Leadership: a New Management Role; 5) Management Skills and Learning; 6) Conclusion: the New Nurse Managers and the Development of Contextual Intelligence.

Keywords:

competence in nursing; contextual intelligence of nurses; European Higher Education Area; management skills in nursing; nursing leadershiptraining of nursing manager

Versión en Español

Título:

Un nuevo liderazgo en la gestión enfermera: EEES Competencias gestoras y aprendizaje