For Nurse Managers at Kaiser Permanente
The institute is a joint endeavor between Kaiser Permanente's National Patient Care Services and The Advisory Board Company, Washington , DC .
Although the Advisory Board serves the entire nursing leadership team, the Nursing Leadership Academy (NLI), its curriculum and services primarily serve the educational needs of frontline managers.
The curriculum addresses concerns about the growing gap between the increasing responsibilities and the skills of nurse managers at the front line of patient care. The focus is on topics that are directly applicable to the day-to-day work of front-line nursing leaders.
In 2003, the NLI program was expanded to all eight Kaiser regions and to date, close to 300 all-day seminars have been held across the program, with 8,912 participating managers (as of May 2007).
In 2006 alone, the NLI held 67 all-day seminars in all eight regions with 2,186 participants from all levels of nursing leadership.