Building Our Future: The Public Library Leadership Fellows Program

Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future.

Beyond the therapy model: building our future.

One thing, among several, that I have learned over the years from my dialogues with occupational therapists across the country is that if I want to be engaged in an animated, challenging exchange, I need only question whether occupational therapy is an evolving profession and whether the profession has a commitment to ongoing change. From these encounters, as well as from a review of our litera...

Building our youth for the future

Adolescents and young adults are at increased risk for HIV due to the many developmental, psychological, social, and structural transitions that converge in this period of the lifespan. In addition, adolescent deaths resulting from HIV continue to rise despite declines in other age groups. There are also young key populations (YKPs) that bear disproportionate burdens of HIV and are the most vul...

A leadership program in an undergraduate nursing course in Western Australia: building leaders in our midst.

This paper discusses a leadership program implemented in the School of Nursing at Edith Cowan University to develop leadership in fourth semester nursing students enrolled in a three year undergraduate nursing degree to prepare them for the dynamic 'changing world' environment of healthcare. Students were invited to apply to undertake the program in extracurricular time. Nineteen students appli...

The RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program, Part 2: Mentoring for leadership success.

This article is the second in a 3-part series describing the RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program, an advanced leadership program for nurses in senior executive roles who aspire to help lead and shape the US healthcare system of the future. Part 1 (October 2005) described the program, its core leadership competencies, and the primary components. This article discusses the mentor experience that ...