Nurse leadership during pandemics

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This Blended Intensive Programme focuses on nursing leadership in crisis situations, including epidemics and pandemics.

Topics such as nursing leadership, infectious diseases, stigma and its consequences, and ethical dilemmas are explored in an international context. Students learn how nursing leaders acted in the past and how to develop their own leadership for the future. The programme’s international setting enables comparison of national approaches and highlights the importance of global cooperation during future pandemics.

Assignments relate to these themes, and the programme concludes with a portfolio containing all online and on-campus work, plus a reflection on the overall learning outcomes.

Teaching and learning

You will learn through an engaging mix of online lectures, group work, self study, an excursion and presentations.

For whom?

This course is intended for nursing students.

Programme overview

    • Online programme

      The online programme includes lectures and group work, with students collaborating in both national and international teams on various assignments.

      • 6 May: supervised online meeting
      • 13 May: unsupervised online meeting
      • 20 May: supervised online meeting
      • 27 May: unsupervised online meeting

    • On campus week
      1 - 5 June: on-campus week in Zwolle

    • Learning outcomes

      By the end of the course, students can:

      • Share their own nursing-practice experiences in English and compare ideas, claims, and evidence about pandemics with international peers.
      • Reflect on their personal and professional learning goals related to international competences in past and future pandemics.
      • Critically assess and form an informed opinion on the role and leadership of nurses and nursing students worldwide during a pandemic.
      • Think creatively about ways to strengthen student awareness of Global Nursing and professional leadership among (international) nurses during a pandemic.

When

  • Four online sessions from 6 to 27 May 2026
  • On-campus sessions from 1 to 5 July 2026

Participants

Maximum 30

Credits

3 ECTS credits

Assessment

  •  Portfolio assessment

Investment

  • €40.32 per night (hostel dorm)
  • Flight cost varies by departure location
  • Daily budget: €15 - €25

Contact

Anja van den Berg
jf.vanden.berg@windesheim.nl