FUNDISA
Nursing Leadership: Building Future-Ready Leaders
Short course
Course type
12 hrs
Study time
Online
Mode of learning
💡Course overview
In today’s dynamic healthcare environment, effective leadership is essential to ensure high-quality patient care, resilient teams, and transformative nursing practice. Leadership Styles for Nurses: Building Future-Ready Leaders is a professional development course designed to empower nurses with the skills, insight, and confidence to lead with purpose and impact.
✅ This course offers a practical and evidence-informed exploration of leadership within clinical and educational nursing contexts. Participants will engage with diverse leadership theories and styles, develop self-leadership and team-building capabilities, and strengthen their ability to communicate decisions with clarity and influence. Whether you are a registered nurse preparing for a leadership role, an emerging nurse educator, or an operational manager looking to enhance your influence, this course will provide you with relevant strategies and tools to lead with purpose in an evolving healthcare landscape.
Who is this course for?
South African Professional Nurses
Required qualification
Individuals with a Degree or Diploma in General Nursing who aspire to be in leadership positions and those in leadership positions.
Course level
Intermediate
Develop your professional skills
Why choose this course?
After completing this course the learner will be equipped to:
- Collaboration and teamwork: Adapt leadership styles to strengthen teamwork and cohesion within nursing teams, healthcare organizations, and the broader community. This promotes effective collaboration and shared accountability in achieving healthcare goals.
- Self-leadership: Organize and manage responsibilities and professional conduct effectively across leadership contexts. This fosters personal accountability, resilience, and a strong professional identity.
- Critical application of leadership theories: Gather, analyse, and interpret leadership theories, styles, and evidence to inform decisions and evaluate leadership effectiveness in nursing education and healthcare settings. This enables evidence-based leadership practice.
- Effective communication: Use appropriate language, tone, and media to influence others, resolve conflict, and inspire a shared vision in clinical and educational environments. Clear communication strengthens trust and enhances team performance.
- Technology and ethical decision-making: Apply digital tools and evidence-based resources to support nurse leadership and decision-making, while promoting ethical practice and safeguarding the well-being of individuals, teams, and communities.
- Systemic impact of leadership: Understand healthcare leadership as part of an interconnected system, recognizing how leadership decisions affect patient care, team performance, and organizational outcomes. This broad perspective enhances strategic and sustainable leadership.
About FUNDISA
FUNDISA is a registered Not-for-Profit Organization (registration number: 076981 NPO) that is the national voice for South Africa’s nursing and midwifery programmes in higher education. FUNDISA provides ongoing events and opportunities to advance the interests and needs of nursing scholarship, through strategic partnerships with donors, regulators, other non-profit organisations, companies, associations, professional bodies, health and nursing faculties.
FUNDISA represents 21 member university nursing departments and 2 associate members namely the Harry Crossley Children’s Nursing Development Unit (UCT-CNDU) associated with the University of Cape Town previously known as the Child Nursing Practice Development Initiative (CNPDI), and the Quality in Nursing and Midwifery (NuMIQ) associated with the North-West University Potchefstroom campus previously known as the Quality in Nursing and Midwifery (INSINQ).
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Course developers & authors
Dr Patricia Mudzi
Dr Patricia Mudzi, a Programme Manager with a PhD in Nursing, brings extensive expertise in nursing education, public health, project management, and leadership. With a strong academic foundation and experience as a lecturer, she has led national training programmes, coordinated multi-partner research projects, and contributed to capacity-building initiatives. Passionate about advancing teaching and learning, she has secured over R3 million in grants to empower nurse educators and strengthen leadership in healthcare. She is skilled in curriculum development, stakeholder engagement, and strategic project execution.
Prof Anna van der Wath
Prof Annatjie van der Wath started her career in 1982 as a mental health nurse whereafter she specialised in child psychiatric nursing. She joined the University of Pretoria in 2009 as a lecturer in mental health nursing and was promoted to professor. Prof van der Wath is an experienced qualitative researcher who supervised 50 masters and doctoral students, and published 45 scientific articles. She served on the board of Gauteng College of Nursing and the Academy of Nursing of SA. After her retirement in 2024, Annatjie was appointed as the CEO of the Forum of University Nursing Deans of SA.
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