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TONL News & Updates
By Kathy Dassler MS RN, Chief Nursing Officer, President of STONL
Greetings to all of our TONL members. In this article, I would like to speak to our recent COVID pandemic and surge, not to speak about all the negatives but to speak about three key components that I have observed and been intimately involved in during the last six months as a Chief Nurse in the Rio Grande Valley. While most of it pertains to the organization where I am the executive, it mirrors what all my esteemed colleagues were challenged with and endured to provide the highest levels of quality care during a time that none of us have ever experienced in our careers and hopefully will never have to face again. While COVID is here to stay, I would like to focus on the following.
By C. Plonien
Successful organizations are built on leadership, inclusive of past leaders as well as present and future leaders. As TONL moves forward, it is important that we as members remember, recognize, and honor nurse leaders of the past, who have given a significant portion of their professional lives to create our professional environment, developing the organization of today to support and promote excellence in nursing leadership.
The first in our series of recognition is Dr. Cole Edmonson. He served as president of TONE/TONL from 2014-2016; he also served as Region 7 representative to AONE/AONL 2017-2019. His ongoing contributions to nursing leadership and his national influence cannot be overstated. He is truly a living legacy and a role model for the reach that each of us can attain through service – as nurse leaders, managers, and administrators.
By C. Plonien
For many reasons, 2020 has been a year of challenge for nurses. Nurses, who in this Year of the Nurse, have also become front-line “heroes” in heath care as they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Time given and time taken during the pandemic has hit nursing on numerous fronts. Nurses at the “at the point of care” and nurses “behind the scenes” – as caregivers, managers, leaders, or administrators, have all sacrificed their time and energy to ensure high-level care of patients, often risking their own personal health. Consequentially, their responses in giving of time and energy has brought innovative ideas of positive change with applications to a new world of health care.
By Wendy Wieneke RN, MSN, Nursing Administration Graduate Student, University of Texas at Arlington, Graduation December, 2020.
My inspiration to pursue a degree in nursing administration stems from my desire to be the effective leader that I feel is so desperately needed in healthcare today. This program has taught me the value of evidenced-based practice, financial management, and how to effectively perform research, but I was always looking for a guide on effectively leading people. I finally found that in Brene’ Brown’s book Dare to Lead. I have learned that being an effective leader is two-fold process for me: working on myself and working for others.
Nursing Leadership
HealthLeaders
Handling crisis situations well and extending professional generosity to other nurses are among the recommendations for strengthening nursing leadership. Emerging RN Leader
Demonstrating servant leadership could play a role in retaining younger nurses, according to recent research. Becker's Hospital Review
Expert predictions for the future of nursing including the expansion of nursing research and nursing's role in emerging models of care. HealthLeaders
Areas affected by the virus that nurse leader have been called to address include care delivery and nurse burnout. Careismatic Brands, Inc.
Careismatic Brands has relased a music video entitled "In the Year of the Nurse, a Tribute to Courage," which kicked off the company's "19 Days of Gratitude" campaign, which ran from September 24 through October 12. For the latest news from the Nurses on Boards Coalition, visit https://www.nursesonboardscoalition.org/news/.
Education and Events
The TONL Annual Conference will be held virtually February 24 - 26, 2021. We're excited about the use of new technology to continue to deliver quality educational and networking opportunities to our members! As always, the TONL Annual Conference will provide an excellent forum to share your knowledge, accomplishments, and innovations with nursing colleagues across the state.
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AONL's new podcast Today in Nursing Leadership hosts monthly conversations with nursing leadership experts. Each episode will provide information, insights and innovations that drive change and provoke action. Hear from experts highlighting challenges facing nurse leaders today and how to navigate these for success. Subscribe today on Spotify, Apple, Google, Stitcher and all other podcasting platforms, and listen to the first episode: Highly Reliable Nurses Listen
Healthcare Industry
Practice and Patient Care
Nurse.com
Nurses are using a variety of coping strategies in dealing with the challenges created by the pandemic. Daily Nurse
Preparing an end-of-life plan for themselves can make nurses better able to discuss end-of-life issues with patients. 
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