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NTI

Every Nurse a Leader: Empowering Bedside Nurses Through Informal Leadership

Facilitator(s): Latonya Brumfield, MSN,RN,CCRN; Shelly Sanders

Contact Hours 1.00
CERP C 1.00
San Diego Conference
Date Wednesday 5/20/2026
Time 11:30AM - 12:30PM PT

Session Summary

This session explores the often-overlooked influence of bedside nurses who lead without titles. Through evidence-based strategies, participants learn to identify, develop and support informal leaders within their teams, ultimately strengthening clinical performance, teamwork and patient care outcomes.

Objectives

  • Define the characteristics and value of informal leadership in clinical nursing settings.
  • Evaluate strategies that foster leadership growth in frontline nursing teams.
  • Apply practical techniques to support and sustain informal leadership development at the bedside.
Topics Leadership
Role Manager, Educator, APRN, Staff

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Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.

Disclosure

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.

Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion. 

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.