OBJECTIVES The Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report advocates for full nurse leader representation across multiple settings to address current challenges in our health care system. The purpose of this study was to examine nursing leadership development needs among Kansas registered nurses (RNs). METHODS Data were collected through an online survey and analyzed using quantitative a...

The aim of this review was to examine the evidence regarding barriers to nurse leadership. Nurses comprise the largest segment of the healthcare workforce. Nursing has consistently been ranked as the most respected position by United States Gallop Poles with the exception of 2011 when fire fighters were ranked number 1. However, the percentage of nurse hospital and health system board members d...

Senior leadership teams whose members play complementary roles have been chronicled as far back as Homer's account of the Trojan War: Although King Agamemnon commanded the Greek army, Achilles, Odysseus, and Nestor each played a distinct role in defeating Troy. Today, complementary-leadership structures are common and, in some cases, even institutionalized. Think of a CEO concerned mainly with ...

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 this paper we will present findings from a recent LFHE-funded study comprising interviews with 152 university leaders at various levels in 12 UK universities to explore competing perceptions, experiences and approaches to leadership within HE. In particular, we explore the concept of ‘distributed leadership’ and its potential as a descriptive and analytic framework. Analysis of transcripts r...

Research in shared mental models has immeasurably aided our understanding of effective teamwork and taskwork. However, little research has focused on the role that leaders play, if any, in influencing, developing and/or fostering shared mental models and thereby improving team performance. We developed an agent-based computational model based on McComb's theory of three-phase mental model devel...

Workshop Co-Sponsored by The Special District Leadership Foundation Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch. Limited class size register early! A practical career development workshop for senior executives and emerging leaders in special districts. This action-oriented workshop includes group and panel discussions on: the journey, roles, and skill sets of a general manager; id...

The Collegial Leadership Mo del of Emancipation (COLME) is used to address the concerns of transforming traditional management practices (TM Ps) in secondary schools . This model is based p rim arily on the princ iple s of co llaboration and p articipation that facilitate collegial leadership practices to flourish in an environment characterized by shared decision-making, shared values, shared ...