The Charge Nurse: Leading a Shift
The most under-supported leadership job in the hospital, taught properly.
Program overview
Charge nurses are promoted for clinical excellence and then given a leadership job with no preparation. This course addresses that directly: allocating a shift against skill mix and acuity, running an effective safety huddle, supervising without hovering, handling a sick call and an escalating ward simultaneously, giving difficult feedback to a peer, managing upward, and protecting your own capacity to think. Practical, realistic about the constraints, and written specifically for the first-line clinical leader rather than for general management.
Why this program
Written for the first-line clinical leader
Allocation and huddles taught concretely
Includes giving feedback to former peers
Realistic about constraints and competing demands
Who it is for
Program objectives
- Allocate a shift against skill mix, acuity and continuity
- Run a safety huddle that changes the shift
- Supervise and support without undermining autonomy
- Manage concurrent operational and clinical pressures
- Give difficult feedback to a peer or former peer
- Escalate to and negotiate with senior management effectively
Learning outcomes
- Allocate a described shift against stated acuity and skill mix
- Structure a safety huddle for a described ward situation
- Prioritise competing demands in a described pressured shift
- Deliver difficult feedback using a structured approach
- Construct an escalation to management with a clear ask
- Identify the support a struggling team member requires
Curriculum
Module 1: From Clinician to Charge
1 lessonsFrom Clinician to ChargePreview
The role change nobody prepares you for.
Module 2: Allocation and Skill Mix
1 lessons- Allocation and Skill Mix
Module 3: The Safety Huddle
1 lessons- The Safety Huddle
Module 4: Supervision Without Hovering
1 lessons- Supervision Without Hovering
Module 5: Difficult Conversations
1 lessons- Difficult Conversations
Module 6: Managing Upward
1 lessons- Managing Upward
Duration and structure
6 lessons across 6 modules. Duration is expressed in study hours.
What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of The Charge Nurse: Leading a Shift. Duration is expressed in study hours.
Delivery format
- Self-paced — start any time.
- Study on any device.
- Lifetime access to the version you enrolled in.