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Empowering Future Nurses: Clinical Leadership & Decision-Making Program at AIIMS

In August 2025, the competence program “Clinical Leadership and Decision-Making – Steps Towards Empowering Future Nurses in CMD Care” was launched for faculty members at the Nursing College, AIIMS, New Delhi and the Danish University Colleges. 

The program was created in close collaboration between faculty at AIIMS and the Danish University Colleges and the course brought together a total of 28 participants—16 faculty members from AIIMS and 12 from Danish University Colleges. 

The program emphasized that clinical leadership and decision-making are core nursing competencies, rooted in values, reflection, and professional judgment. The purpose of the competence program was to support faculty in developing educational approaches that strengthen these competencies, emphasizing that leadership is not taught as mere content but developed through reflective, practice-oriented teaching that empowers both educators and students. 

The overall aim of the program was to support faculty in understanding, identifying, and applying the concepts of clinical decision-making and clinical leadership in CMD nursing care while promoting and strengthening their reflective competencies. 

The program consisted of four modules: 

Module 1: Clinical Leadership as a Foundation for Reflective Evidence-Based Practice 

Module 2: The Empowered Reflective Nurse 

Module 3: Teaching Clinical Leadership – From Knowledge to Pedagogical Action 

Module 4: Anchoring, Testing, and Evaluation 

The program was developed using the e-tivity model and the in-and-out-of-classroom approach. Modules 1–3 were delivered as online blended learning with online moderation and mentoring. Module 4 took place on-site at AIIMS, New Delhi, with attendance of faculty from AIIMS and the Danish UC.  

Voices from the participants- insights that inspire future learning and growth 

“Now, I can claim that I know a little bit about the clinical decision making, which is if which is really helpful for me to use these models when we teach or when we interact with our student.” 

“I can say that every action should be reflected before, during and after” 
 

 “So yeah, I'm also looking forward to more such workshops and modules in the future.” 

 

International working group on CMD for Nursing Education - AIIMS and Danish UCs takes action to fights CMD

AIIMS has identified three key focus areas within CMDs, where they want to improve the quality of the nursing education viz. retinopathy, MASLD, and gestational diabetes. To support AIIMS, the CMD group meetings have focussed on theories and models for lifestyle and behavioral change, with a particular emphasis on motivation. The group has worked with Prochaska and DiClemente’s “Stages of Change” model, which focuses on motivation for transformation.  

Through dynamic online sessions, both patient and nursing perspectives have been discussed and subjects included practical interventions, communication strategies and the role of clinical leadership in guiding change. 

Members of the CMD group: 

College of Nursing at AIIMS, New Delhi: Dr. Latha Venkatesan, Dr. Shashi Mawar, Tarika Sharma, Aditi Sinka, Mamta Choudry, Milan Tirwa, Manita Dalal, Ujjwal Dahiya 

Tha Danish UC’s Absalon, KP and VIA: Mette West, Helene Helsø, Lene Munch, Charlotte Pedersen, Lene Søndergaard, Helen Højgaard