Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing
The Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing (KILN) program assists students to maximize their leadership potential, prepares them for the challenges of providing nursing care in our increasingly multicultural society, and nurtures their ability to create positive social change. KILN scholars receive financial support, faculty mentorship, and opportunities to network with nurse leaders as they pursue their undergraduate or graduate studies.
The KILN program was started in 2009 with a federal Nursing Workforce Diversity grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. Since 2012, additional funding from the Price Family Foundation enables continuation and expansion of the program. Currently more than 50 KILN scholars per year participate in KILN.听
“The things I learned through KILN were life changing. I felt like I grew as a future nurse caring for her patients, and also as a person.”
Framework for KILN
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KILN program graduates
The basic tenets of the Social Change Model鈥攖he framework that defines KILN鈥檚 goals and endeavors鈥攈elp KILN graduates as they transition into professionals.
CSON practitioners possess self-awareness; value inclusivity, integrity, and commitment; and promote equity, social justice, service and collaboration throughout their careers.听
The Social Change Model for Leadership
The Social Change Model was developed by the Higher Education Research Institute (1996) of UCLA for college students who want to learn to work effectively with others to create positive social change over their lifetimes. The assumptions of the SCM assert that leadership is a collaborative, service-oriented, values鈥揵ased process that is about effecting change on behalf of society.听
These seven values of the Social Change Model are defined as follows:
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Being aware of the values, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs that motivate one to take action, including how one understands others.
Thinking, feeling, and behaving with consistency, genuineness, authenticity, and honesty towards others.
Implies intensity and duration.听 It requires a significant involvement and investment of one鈥檚 self in the activity and its intended outcomes.听It is the energy that drives the collective effort.
The primary means of empowering others and self through trust.听 Collaboration can occur when one has trust in the diversity of multiple talents and perspectives of the group members and the power of that diversity to generate creative solutions and actions.
To work with shared aims and values.听 It implies the ability to engage in collective analysis of the issues at hand and the tasks to be undertaken.听 It requires that all members of the group participate actively in articulating the purpose and the goals of the leadership development activity.
Recognizes two fundamental realities of any group effort: that differences in viewpoint are inevitable and valuable, and that such differences must be aired openly but with civility.
The process whereby the self is responsibly connected to the environment and the community.听 It acknowledges the interdependence of all involved in the leadership effort. Citizenship thus recognizes that effective democracy involves individual responsibility as well as individual rights.
KILN Award Recipients
Sun Kim 鈥�22
The Key Award is awarded to a senior scholar who demonstrates a tireless devotion for social听justice and supporting others from under-represented and under-resourced backgrounds. This scholar actively participates in service and advocates for people of color.
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Melissa P茅rez Capotosto
The Mentorship Award recognizes a faculty mentor for their tireless involvement and devotion to their mentee. This faculty member exemplifies what it means to be a leader in the community, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to the professional growth and development of their mentee.
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Brianna Cheatham 鈥�22
The Leadership Award is awarded to a scholar who demonstrates outstanding leadership by motivating and inspiring