Annual Conference Program Book
The Organization of Nurse Leaders New Jersey (ONLNJ) is pleased to announce the 2025 Annual Meeting and Conference “Limitless Transformational Leadership” scheduled on April 10 & 11, 2025 at the Princeton Marriot at Forrestal, 100 College Road East, Princeton NJ 08540.
Limitless Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership in nursing is a management style that motivates nurses to take ownership of their roles and perform beyond minimum expectations. This style motivates team members by appealing to their desire to demonstrate higher moral values and integrity in practice. Transformational leadership in nursing encourages teams to work toward the greater good of an organization and its people instead of considering self-serving interests.
Transformational Nurse Leaders can significantly impact professional relationships and promote positive patient and organizational outcomes. These nurse leaders possess four key elements that separate them as transformational from others in nursing leadership roles.
Four Key Elements of Transformational Leadership include.
- Inspirational Motivation: Effective transformational nurse leaders believe in themselves and others to do their best, articulate a clear vision and communicate with a sense of commitment and passion.
- Individual Consideration: Transformational nurse leaders take the time to know each team member, learn their strengths, weaknesses, and motivations and dedicate themselves as mentors and leaders to those in their charge.
- Intellectual Stimulation: Transformational nurse leaders value the idea of team members who think outside the box and search for better ways of accomplishing things. They encourage creativity, welcoming new ideas and input.
- Idealized Influence: Transformational leadership in nursing includes the act of idealized influence, setting a good example for others to follow and doing so in a manner that makes them want to be better.
Join ONLNJ in hearing from many talented speakers including Keynote Presenter, Penny Zenker, author of “Reset the Mindset” who will explore how to maintain focus and clarity in the face of rapid change in healthcare. Steve Miller, Entrepreneur and author, will deliver an inspiring discussion on how to become a leader whom others will follow. Dr. Michael Arcaro will discuss the challenges of AI in healthcare.
Please join ONLNJ at this year’s Annual Meeting and Conference, “Limitless Transformational Leadership” and leave with the tools and strategies to develop yourself into the best transformational nurse leader you can be!
Target Audience: Nurse managers, nursing coordinators, assistant nurse managers, clinical nurses, chief nursing officers, vice presidents of patient care, assistant vice presidents of nursing, administrative directors, directors of nursing, aspiring nurse leaders, new ONLNJ mentors and mentees, Nursing Workplace Environment Staffing Council members, university deans, nurse educators, nurse researchers and scientists, post-acute leaders and nursing home administrators.
Learner Outcome: At the conclusion of this educational event, the learner will gain knowledge on becoming a transformational leader in challenging times and will self-report on a Likert Scale of (1-5) an increase in knowledge and self confidence in adopting at least two key strategies to becoming a transformational leader in challenging times, which may be transferable to their practice and/or organization.
Eighty percent of the leaders will report that they have gained knowledge and self-confidence on Likert Scale (1-5), in implementing at least two key strategies to becoming a transformational leader in challenging times, which may be transferable to their practice and/or organization.
Successful completion of the course is defined as in-person attendance for 100 percent of the didactic learning session and a completed course evaluation.
Continuing Nurse Education Credits: This activity has been submitted to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses for approval to award contact hours. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.