Professional development helps keep passion alive

To reignite their nurses’ passion for nursing practice one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing leaders at Novant in the Winston-Salem, N.C. area, created an RN professional development experience, which combined reflection, peer review, and structured one-on-one conversations with their managers. Nurses were asked to create a plan with two goals, one for professional development, the other for self-care, and to provide feedback on how leadership could better support the nursing staff. AONL member Loraine Frank-Lightfoot DNP, RN, vice president and chief nursing officer of Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center, described the effort in the May issue of Voice of Nursing Leadership. (Voice of Nursing Leadership article, 5/1/22)