Overview
The Stanley Shalom Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence oversees the practice and education of nearly 35,000 nursing caregivers at Cleveland Clinic. Through the years, the Zielony Nursing Institute has developed and honed best practices, tools and services that have driven our mission to provide quality, compassionate care that puts patients first.
We invite your organization to learn more about our individualized programs and consulting and advisory services. Our dynamic offerings are designed to help guide your organization and can be customized to meet your needs.
We welcome the opportunity to work with you in achieving nursing excellence.
Consultation & Observation Services
Healthcare organizations across the globe are facing complex issues as they consolidate facilities, respond to increased demands and the need for continuous improvement. To address these issues, healthcare organizations often turn to Cleveland Clinic to find out how we are successfully addressing similar challenges.
Through the years, we have pioneered advanced techniques and procedures that let us give our patients innovative, compassionate, quality and evidence-based care. Nurses often comprise the majority of the healthcare workforce in healthcare organizations. Because nursing care has such a profound impact on patient outcomes and experience, many times those organizations seek nursing solutions. Our consultants will work with your nursing team to adapt practices to fit your institution. We will evaluate any programs or initiatives your health organization is currently pursuing.
Our Office of Nursing Education and Professional Development will do a thorough inquiry into the needs of your organization. In collaboration with you, we will create objectives to match your needs and identify the best approach. The resulting experience is often a mixture of targeted consultation, observation, and discussion among nursing leadership and specific program experts.
Consultation and Advisory services can be onsite at Cleveland Clinic, or our consultants can come to you. Our nursing professionals are available for teleconferences, on-site assessments and training. To ensure your success, consultation may be one time or ongoing for a finite period.
We provide analysis on most clinical, operational and strategic challenges. We can work to develop and improve:
- Resource management practices
- Continuous improvement (CI) efforts
- Education and development programs
- Technology usage
- Patient care protocols and best practices
- Research initiatives
- Standardization and onboarding efforts
- Nurse residency programs
- Shared governance
- Certification efforts
- Nurse recruitment efforts
- Innovation Leadership
Working with our consultants will help your health system capitalize on investments, streamline costs, explore new opportunities for growth and provide quality patient care.
Email Kathy Mau, at mauk@ccf.org to discuss consultation fees and how Cleveland Clinic can best work with you.
Visiting Nurse Scholars
The Visiting Nurse Scholars Program is an immersive, on-site observational experience at Cleveland Clinic that provides nursing leaders with the opportunity to expand their knowledge and develop new skills while addressing the current challenges facing healthcare organizations.
Each experience is tailored to the scholar’s career goals and the priorities of their sponsoring institution. Scholars are paired with Cleveland Clinic experts who serve as mentors, providing guidance, insight and exposure to innovative approaches in patient care and the management of complex cases.
The program typically lasts one to four weeks and is customized to each scholar’s objectives. Longer visits may be considered on a case-by-case basis to accommodate specific learning goals.
Individual experiences can be tailored across a wide range of clinical and professional areas. Focused nursing tracks may include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced Practice
- Clinical Specialties (e.g., cardiology, neurology, oncology, etc.)
- Emergency Department
- Nursing Education
- Leadership
- Research and Evidence-Based Practice
- Perioperative Practice
- Quality and Patient Experience
Through the program, scholars will gain knowledge and tools to elevate patient care and implement best practices wherever they serve, as outlined by The Stanley Shalom Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence.
Participant eligibility requirements
- Recommendation letter from the sponsoring institution
- Three or more years of nursing experience in an appropriate clinical or institutional setting
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
- Submission of an intake form outlining learning goals and objectives
Tuition and travel expenses
Tuition is customized to each scholar’s experience, learning objectives and length of visit.
Transportation, housing, meals and other personal expenses are the responsibility of the visiting scholar and/or their sponsoring institution. While medical care is available during the visit, any healthcare costs are the scholar's responsibility.
Narrative responses from visiting nurse scholars
“Great learning experience that added value to my learning journey in nursing. Staff are forthcoming and willing to share their wealth of knowledge.”
- Yeo Ai Wah, MSN, RN, National University Hospital, Singapore
“I’m able to take back great ideas to my hospital, especially on quality. There is such a big focus on providing high-quality care. I saw it everywhere.”
- Shih Chun, Lin, MS, RN, NP, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Taiwan
“My overall rating of this experience on a Likert scale of 1 to 5 scores 5++. The overall organization, general interest, quality of the experience and the teaching-learning environment are rated as extremely satisfactory.”
- Rafika Zaatari, MSN, RN, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
Interested in a visiting nurse scholar experience?
Fellowships
International Emerging Leader Fellowship
The International Emerging Leader Fellowship is a two-month immersion program designed to give your organization's high-potential leaders a solid understanding of a specific functional area within a healthcare system.
View more information on the International Emerging Leader Fellowship
Executive Nurse Fellowship
In today’s complex and constantly evolving healthcare landscape, it’s more important than ever for nurses to be front-and-center as key drivers and contributors in senior hospital leadership. Executive nurse leaders bring unique, patient-centered viewpoints to the decision-making table that drive organizational success and most importantly, patient experience. Unfortunately, there are limited programs that educate aspiring nurse leaders. As one of the nation’s top nursing institutes, and a designated National League of Nursing Center of Excellence in Education, Cleveland Clinic is well equipped to meet this need.
The Executive Nurse Fellowship (ENF) program is a 5-day immersive experience where participants will gain essential leadership insights and learn from Northeast Ohio’s top academic and service executives. The ENF is rich in compelling interactive learning, problem-solving, group exercises, role-based scenarios, and simulation. Participants will utilize real-world healthcare issues to further expand their knowledge and influence to address systemic issues through networking and community partnerships. In-depth debriefing and analysis provides participants with leadership strategies and competencies to quickly analyze, respond and lead.
Unlike other nursing leadership programs, the ENF is learner-centric with role-specific curriculum tailored to meet each fellow’s unique skill set and professional development needs. Fellows will be partnered with expert executive mentors to enrich the immersive experience and support continued learning and development throughout the first year following completion of the program. In this way, the Executive Nurse Fellowship program creates a pipeline of future executive leaders who are well equipped to lead their respective healthcare organizations.
As a participant you will:
- Enhance your ability to create, influence and drive outcomes and organizational change
- Develop strategies to create high impact relationships
- Discover your leadership strengths and enhance your leadership journey
- Build an action plan to address systemic issues and incorporate promote systems thinking in a changing healthcare ecosystem
The curriculum will focus on:
- Essential financial skills
- Performance metrics
- Technology optimization
- Influence (tactical and inspirational)
- Social capital and communication strategies
- Leader relationships
- Patient engagement
- Emotional intelligence
- Learning agility and innovation
- Academic and community partnerships
- Legislative policy
Postdoctoral Distance-Mediated Clinical Research Fellowship
Go to Clinical Research Fellowship for more information.
For more information about the Executive Nurse Fellowship program or to become a participant, email Nurseleadershipacademy@ccf.org.
