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Leadership comes in different styles and qualities. A licensed nurse brings an essential set of skills — time management, critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal — as well as reliability and hands-on experience to his or her participation on a board, committee, or commission. It’s a role no other clinician can fill.

The Oregon Nurses on Boards Project is dedicated to providing everything you need to know about board service. From how to find a board to an description of its various roles and responsibilities, we’ve got up-to-date resources, tools, links, and tips to help you step into your own leadership, start to make a greater impact on your community, and bring your powerful nurse’s perspective to the boardroom.

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TESTIMONIALS

David M. Silva, MN, BSN, RN

Nurse Manager, Ambulatory Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University

“As nurses, we are there during people’s most vulnerable times. Most boards will be enriched by the perspective we bring — a piece of humanity that connects us all. And, like me, nurses who serve on boards can bring back new ideas and apply them directly to patient care.”
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Ericka Waidley, MSN, MA, RN

Visiting Assistant Professor, Linfield College

"Everyone has the potential to be part of a board of directors. My own experience began with my need and passion for quality after-school child care. In my first community board role, I brought my nursing expertise and experience as a pediatric nurse, which gave me credibility to advocate for child safety and nutrition. Board service provided me an enormous boost of confidence and opened doors for my own leadership."
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Gladys Campbell, RN, MSN, FAAN, NC-BC

Health, Wellness, and Leadership Coach and Consultant

"I've always viewed my nursing license as a statement of public trust and my nursing career as much larger than just a job. Putting myself in places of influence like board roles, accepting political and policy appointments, and serving the larger professional community allows me to uphold the obligation nurses have to serve the weakest members of society while honoring the public’s trust in our profession."
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Jake Creviston, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC

Assistant Professor at Linfield School of Nursing

"As a nurse, I listen. And because I listen, I gain valuable information about what it’s like for those struggling to navigate an increasingly complex health care system. As a patient advocate, I have a duty to share this struggle, from the bedside to the boardroom, so that one day we may realize health care that is available to — and works for — everyone."
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Reneé Menkens, MS, RN

Board Vice President, Coos County Friends of Public Health

"As a board member for a non-profit that supports public health services, I help create a culture of health in my community. I bring my nursing perspective on issues discussed by the board and help raise money to support my local public health department. In this role, I can make sure that health-related services for women, children, and others are funded and available to those who need them."
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Michael Polacek, MSN, RN-BC

Professional Development Specialist, Clinical Education, Salem Health

“Serving on a Board of Directors changed my perspective. It activated my contract with society — to apply my preparation and expertise as a nurse to the reform of health care. I became a full partner with other thought leaders and for the first time could see my profession as strategic and not just the practice of bedside care."

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Dianne Feinstein

"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want."
Carlos Ghosn

"The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them."
Woodrow Wilson

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
Arnold Glasow

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Peter F. Drucker

"Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
Colin Powell

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt, and offer a solution everybody can understand."
Ken Blanchard

"The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."
Nancy D. Solomon

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
Leroy Eimes

"A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see."
Warren Bennis

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Dolly Parton

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."
Kenneth W. Thomas

"Make sure you’re not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve... Figure out what’s going on and make a plan to improve things."
Harry Truman

"In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Roy T. Bennett

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

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