Leadership engagement is an important aspect of integrating best practices at the bedside. The catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention workgroup at our academic medical center implemented leadership rounding in partnership with clinical staff to increase participation in CAUTI prevention initiatives on inpatient units. There was an associated decrease in urinary catheter ...

Central to the daily struggles that successful working women face is the misalignment of the current work culture and the values of the workforce. In addition to contributing to work-life integration conflicts, this disconnect perpetuates the gender leadership gap. The dearth of women at the highest ranks of academic medicine not only sends a clear message to women that they must choose between...

have benefitted from the addition of concrete examples and more theoretical material. Those chapters provide so little information that they would be of minimal use to a new administrator or to a staff member seeking to understand the political environment of a college campus. Several thought-provoking chapters balance these deficiencies, however. Frank Cervone provides an excellent description...

Schools and school leadership have continued to be scrutinized by the legislature and public. With the passage of such laws as No Child Left Behind in 2001, the accountability standard of public schools has risen to all-time levels. This literature review seeks to discover the effects school leaders have on student achievement. This literature review will look at a variety of leadership styles,...

introduction: there must be a dynamic relation between leadership and people's knowledge. this relationship takes place through motivation and encouraging people attitude for acquiring knowledge. the purpose of this article was to study relation between knowledge management and chairperson's leadership styles at isfahan university medical sciences from faculty point of views. methods: research ...

The United States National Academy of Engineering's seminal work, The Engineer of 2020 – Visions of Engineering in the New Century, was written to prepare industrial, governmental, and academic institutions for the future of engineering. The authors of the report state, “Emphasis on the creative process will allow more effective leadership in the development and application of next-generation t...

The success in the implementation of a quality computer assisted mobile learning and distance education in a Technology Enhanced Learning Management System is highly rely on the academic leadership in managing and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the tertiary level. The effectiveness of its leadership, knowledge, application and management of ICT and learning man...

OBJECTIVES To determine pre-implementation perspectives of institutional, practice and vendor leadership regarding best practice for implementation of two ambulatory electronic health records (EHRs) at an academic institution. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews with ambulatory care network and information systems leadership, medical directors, practice managers and vendors before EHR implement...

The purpose of this study was to describe the profile of nursing leadership structures in Canada and to assess relationships among structures, processes and outcomes pertaining to nurse leaders' work. Data were collected from nurse leaders in 28 academic health centres and 38 community hospitals in 10 Canadian provinces (n = 1,164). The results of this study revealed that the current contingent...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an association between sex and academic rank and track, leadership, productivity, income, and career satisfaction. DESIGN National cross-sectional survey. SETTING Academic dermatologists across the United States. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1263 full-time academic dermatologists. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The association of sex with the following predicti...