The Department of Education, Training, and Research of PSCCQ has successfully organized a two -day activity entitled “The Nursing Leadership and Management Course” on 9-10 December 2019 at the PSCCQ Cardiology Conference Room. A total of Thirty (30) participants were in attendance. This activity was part of the series of courses offered by the Nursing Education, Training, and Research and was purposely aimed to develop leadership and managerial nursing skills among the nurses within the center as well as from the various hospitals in the Region. This was accredited by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties for 16 CME hours.

The Deputy Nursing Director, Ms. Laila Abed Eddin, emphasized that lectures and workshops were conducted in a span of two days. The lectures discussed include Leadership Styles, Writing Nursing Strategic Plan, Effective Time Management, and Writing Improvement Projects, Team building Workshop, Conflict Resolution, Change Management, Effective Communication Style, Emotional Intelligence among Nurse Leaders and Mangers and Staffing Management –Analysis and Application. 

All throughout the activity, everyone was thankful for having been part of such a very substantive and informative program. At the conclusion of this course, the attendees will be able to understand the elements of leadership, managerial functions. Moreover, the participants also will learn to be able to differentiate between a leader and a manager, as it is common knowledge that this roles are oftentimes get confused with the other.