Leadership team roulette: a new teaching strategy for students

Leadership and coordination are key skills for pre-registration nurses, particularly in their transition from student to qualified nurse. A session was designed to develop their confidence and understanding of leadership roles. Using a problembased learning approach, leadership team roulette facilitates team communication and shared decision making, and explores managerial skills such as delegation, prioritisation, assertiveness and time management.

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In this article…

• How an initiative was developed to improve student nurses’ leadership skills

• How and why the students made decisions about theoretical clinical scenarios

• How the initiative was evaluated and adapted to benefit students

Key points

Leadership is essential for nurses, and involves teamwork and delegation

In an initiative, student nurses were asked to make decisions about clinical scenarios

Students took it in turns to lead the group, then received feedback from lecturers and their peers

The initiative received positive evaluations and was adapted to be delivered online

Students developed decision-making, teamwork and delegation skills