AIM To explore the perceptions of early career nursing academics on leadership in academia. BACKGROUND There is growing emphasis on leadership capacity building across all domains of nursing. However, there is limited evidence on leadership capacity in early career academics. This study tested an intervention to develop leadership capacity amongst early career nursing academics in two Austral...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to explore involving doctors in shared leadership. It examines the policies that have led to the focus on shared leadership and the implications for practice. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH This is a conceptual paper, examining policy developments and key literature to understand the move towards shared leadership. It focuses on UK NHS, and in particular doct...

background and objectives: the healthcare organization are often fail to realize their strategic goals due to the lack of effective leadership. to address this efficiency, factors can possibly influence the management performance should be identified. thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style and explore the relationship between leadership style in hosp...

Achieving high quality health care against a background of continual change, increasing demand, and shrinking financial resource is a major challenge. However, there is significant international evidence that when clinicians use their voices and values to engage with system delivery, operational efficiency and care outcomes are improved. In the UK National Health Service, the traditional divide...

In medical school and during the residency and fellowship training periods, the focus of the educational process centers appropriately on health, illness, and the disease process. This is the time period where skills are developed and honed to provide exemplary care of the patient as well as the development of research interests and proficiency. Once the training period has been completed, the ...

It is impossible to ignore the focus in the past few years on clinical leadership both in the pro­ fessional literature and in government papers, most notably the landmark Darzi Report, also known as the NHS Next Stage Review (Darzi 2008). Lord Darzi’s report set the scene in terms of high­ lighting the importance of involving clinicians in leadership roles, which in subsequent years has been d...

BACKGROUND Effective team performance is essential in the delivery of high-quality health-care. Leadership skills therefore are an important part of physicians' everyday clinical life. To date, the development of leadership skills are underrepresented in medical curricula. Appropriate training methods for equipping doctors with these leadership skills are highly desirable. OBJECTIVE The revie...

BACKGROUND Foot ulcers are a significant problem for people with diabetes. Comprehensive assessments of risk factors associated with diabetic foot ulcer are recommended in clinical guidelines to decrease complications such as prolonged healing, gangrene and amputations, and to promote effective management. However, the translation of clinical guidelines into nursing practice remains fragmented ...