RNAO BPG: Developing and Sustaining Nursing Leadership
Gain knowledge in leadership practices that result in healthy outcomes for nurses, patients/clients, organizations and systems.
This guideline addresses:
Leadership
Strengthening Primary Health Care through Primary Care and Public Health Collaboration - 2012
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF): The objectives of this four and a half year program of research were to: explore structures and processes required to build successful collaborations between primary care (PC) and public health (PH); understand the nature of existing collaborations in Canada; examine roles that nurses and other providers played in collaborations. The research represents academic reserchers and decision makers fromBritish Columbia (BC), Ontario (ON) and Nova Scotia (NS), as well as national leaders in PC and PH.
Factors Influencing Teamwork and Collaboration Within a Tertiary Medical Center - 2012
Evidence to Inform Staff Mix Decision Making. A Focused Literature Review - 2012
This literature synthesis strengthens our understanding of the elements that influence staff mix decision-making, including patient, provider and organizational factors. In addition, it provides further evidence to support the evaluation framework (CNA et al., 2005) that is broadly structured using those three components. While some progress has been made toward the development and implementation of tools and processes to inform staff mix decision-making, substantial gaps in this area remain.
Evidence to Inform Staff Mix Decision-making: A Focused Literature Review - 2012
This literature synthesis strengthens our understanding of the elements that influence staff mix decision-making, including patient, provider and organizational factors. In addition, it provides further evidence to support the evaluation framework (CNA et al., 2005) that is broadly structured using those three components. While some progress has been made toward the development and implementation of tools and processes to inform staff mix decision-making, substantial gaps in this area remain.
Staff Mix: Decision-Making Framework for Quality Nursing Care - 2012
The Staff Mix Decision-making Framework for Quality Nursing Care is a comprehensive and evidence-informed resource presenting a systematic approach to staff mix decision-making that can be used in all clinical practice settings. Decisions concerning staff mix must reflect nurses’ scope of practice and unregulated care providers’ (UCP) scope of employment and must conform to legislation, professional standards and organizational policies.
Developing Emotional Intelligence for Healthcare Leaders - 2012
Skills in emotional intelligence (EI) help healthcare leaders understand, engage and motivate their team. They are essential for dealing well with conflict and creating workable solutions to complex problems. EI skills are grounded in personal competence, upon which
build the skills for social competence, including social awareness and relationship management.
Health Professional Networks as a Vector for Improving Quality and Safety: A Systematic Review - 2012
Interest in networks as collaborating, professionalised structures continues to grow. As a post-bureaucratic form of organisation, networks have gained increasing popularity for governments and policymakers. With a considerable corpus of literature on networks within and outside the health sector, it is timely to assess the current state of knowledge, particularly in relation to how the features of networks may be applied to improve quality and outcomes of care.
Innovation in Transformative Nursing Leadership: Nursing Informatics Competencies and Roles - 2012
This paper focuses on an emerging “avant-garde executive leadership competency recommended for today’s health leaders to guide health system transformation.
Specifically, this competency is articulated as “state of the art communication and technology savvy,” and it implies linkages between nursing informatics competencies
and transformational leadership roles for nurse executive.
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Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC) / CNA Expert Commission - 2011
Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC): Brief in Response to the CNA National Expert Commission Call for Submissions.
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