Nunavut: Building Nursing Capacity

Building capacity in nursing: creating a leadership institute.

The authors describe the development of the Dorothy M. Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute, an innovative partnership of the Nursing Effectiveness, Outcomes and Utilization Research Unit at the University of Toronto site and nurse consultants with expertise in organizational and human resource development. The context for the initiative, needs and rationale, supporting literature and the coaliti...

Capacity building within primary healthcare nursing: a current European challenge.

Building Capacity for Cancer Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: the Cancer Nursing Professorial Precinct Initiative

Corresponding author: Raymond Chan, PhD, MAppSc, BN, RN, FACN Director of Research and Innovation, West Moreton Hospital Health Service NHMRC Health Professional Research Fellow Queensland University of Technology President, Cancer Nurses Society of Australia Address: Level 2, Building 34, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Metro North Hospital and Health Services, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia...

Building community and public health nursing capacity: a synthesis report of the National Community Health Nursing Study.

OBJECTIVES 1) To describe the community health nursing workforce in Canada; 2) To compare, across political jurisdictions and community health sectors, what helps and hinders community nurses to work effectively; 3) To identify organizational attributes that support one community subsector--public health nurses--to practise the full scope of their competencies. METHODS Our study included an a...

Capacity building in Nepal*

There’s an old saying: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” But do we believe this? Many health care providers sacrifice their time and money to provide medical aid to underserved populations in remote environments. But is this helpful? Underserved populations need more than just another doctor. Short-term medical aid, with the exception of disa...