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OR Excellence Session Previews - June 2016

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J U N E 2 0 1 6 O R E X C E L L E N C E . C O M 4 3 I t takes a great nurse to be a healthcare leader, but it also takes more than that. While the lessons of leader- ship aren't typically taught in nursing school, the neces- sary qualities may already be within you, says David Taylor, MSN, RN, CNOR, director of the cardiovascu- lar OR at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. In his presentation "Healthcare Leaders Aren't Born, They're Made," he'll illuminate how front-line providers grow into top- drawer managers. • A new frontier. I don't believe nursing school pre- pares us to take on the role of healthcare leader as it's defined today. We're trained Making of a Healthcare Leader Providing patient care and managing surgical services are very different worlds. • Retired at the rank of major from the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in 2009 after 25 years of service. • Delivered compre- hensive consulting services to commu- nity hospital sys- tems, teaching hos- pitals and level I trauma centers nationwide. • Author of "Perioperative Leadership: Managing Change With Insights, Priorities, and Tools," in AORN Journal, July 2014 (osmag.net/3KjNNs). David Taylor, MSN, RN, CNOR Speaker Profile for patient care, but leader- ship today requires us to understand HR, finance, growth and strategy. We're responsible for the business office as well as surgical services, ensuring that staff provide effective care, but also hit certain metrics. We began our careers in nursing, and being a leader is much more than we were prepared for, so we might be caught at a disadvantage. • Training takes time. Some people are natural leaders and some aren't. Some have charisma and some don't. But we all have to grow into leadership. You can learn to lead, but you have to be given the opportu- nity to learn how. Imagine asking a CFO to scrub in, to gown and glove up, to join a surgery. He wouldn't be able to. Well, why not? He's the CFO of a hospital that does surgery, it's the business he's

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