THEME: "Current Challenges, Innovations and Best Practices in the Field of Nursing"
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Saudi Arabia
Title: Cultivating resilience in times of crisis: the role of nurse leaders
Hawazen Albalawi is a Head
Nurse in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
with a clinical background in Medical-Surgical Nursing. Her career highlights include clinical,
educational, and leadership functions as a Staff Nurse, an Education Liaison Nurse and a Nurse Manager. Hawazen has been serving as a Unit Nurse Manager in MERS-CoV isolation unit, business/medical
protocol unit and outpatient department since 2015. Hawazen completed a Master’s of Advanced Nursing in Leadership
and Management in Monash University-Australia in 2018. She is a member at
Psi-Zeta At Large, chapter of Sigma Global Nursing Excellence and Saudi Nurses
Association (SNA). Hawazen’s research interest includes leadership and
management styles, team coaching, collaborative healthcare models, shared governance
and practice development.