{"title":"Nurse executives' values and leadership behaviors. Conflict or coexistence?","authors":"Linda K Perkel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurse leaders struggle to provide for the delivery of humanistic and holistic healthcare that is consistent with nursing values in a changing economic environment. There is concern that nurse executives find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the differences between organizational economics and their personal and professional identities. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between nurse executives' perceived personal and organizational value congruence and their leadership behaviors (i.e., transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire). Four hundred and eleven nurse executives employed by American Hospital Association hospitals located east of the Mississippi participated in the study. Findings provide insight into the values held by nurse executives, personal and organizational value congruence and conflict perceived by nurse executives, and the leadership behaviors used by nurse executives. For example, the findings indicate there is a moderate degree of value congruence between nurse executives' personal and organizational values; however, the degree to which specific values are important is significantly different. Nurse executives report that they most often engage in transformational leadership behaviors, but there was no relationship between their leadership behavior and the degree of personal and organizational value congruence. Implications for nursing and nursing research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"6 4","pages":"100-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22251270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the culture of an ICU. The imperative for facilitative leadership.","authors":"Jane Conway, Margaret McMillan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents findings of a study conducted in an Australian Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The authors were invited by staff of the unit to provide education to them to improve their experience of the workplace. Attempts to determine what staff would see as useful professional development activity, however, revealed an inability to specify their professional development needs. Exploration of the workplace situation with all nurses in the unit revealed that issues related to the workplace culture--the impact of a changing health care contexts on ICU nurses, a lack of collegial support, and a lack of preperation for the roles of ICU nurses--resulted in increased tension in the workplace and heightened job dissatisfaction. The article provides a discussion of these issues and suggests that while all who work in ICU are accountable for their interaction, those employed as educators have both a right and a responsibility to undertake a leadership role in the workplace. It is argued that the current role of educators in demonstrating procedures and equipment, assessing clinical competence of those new to the area, and supporting students who participate in accredited ICU training does not embrace the potential role of ICU educators to facilitate a change in unit culture and behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"6 4","pages":"117-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22251273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leader as expert.","authors":"Betsy Frank","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rapidly changing and uncertain health care delivery system requires well-educated nurse leaders who can work to achieve organizational missions that are appropriate for the needs of all who seek health care. Educators in both undergraduate and graduate programs can use the four ways of knowing as outlined by Carper (1978) to design curricula that will prepare nursing leaders as experts.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"7 2","pages":"57-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22418256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.","authors":"Shirley S Chater","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"7 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22329671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinic closure brings power to a community. Lessons learned to inform health policy.","authors":"Pamela N Clarke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Development of a community clinic as a campus/community partnership served as a model for community empowerment in a unique demonstration project in a rural state. The purpose was to provide primary health care and illustrate the impact of expert faculty practice with extremely vulnerable populations. Advanced practice students in a variety of disciplines participated with faculty in health care delivery in an underserved area.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"7 1","pages":"30-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22330848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for successful research project management.","authors":"E R Lenz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Beginning researchers may not fully appreciate the complexity of implementing a study, or the degree of rigor and precision involved. Successful project management requires careful planning, conscientious follow-through, and continuous monitoring. Several aspects of project implementation are discussed: defining roles and responsibilities of project personnel, overseeing progress of the project, planning and managing the budget, and record keeping. Concrete strategies are provided, with the emphasis being on proactive approaches that prevent problems rather than on reactive crisis management.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"4 1","pages":"26-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21634938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invisible inventors. A historical overview of creative midwives and nurses.","authors":"W C Hiestand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This historical overview documents women's inventions for providing nursing care dating from 1608 to 1928. The word invention is broadly defined and includes ideas that created therapeutic activities, caregiving environments, and specific devices for care. It focuses on the creative contributions of early outstanding midwives and other practicing nurses around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources include illustrations of patented items, practical hints published in early issues of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), published translations of original documents from Europe, original historical research on women in Europe and America, and records from the U.S. Government Patent Office. The role of nurses in creating and developing tools and methods for providing nursing care has gone unrecognized. It is important to clarify the record of women's and nurses' inventiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"4 1","pages":"18-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21634937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing successful learning programs.","authors":"J M Novotny, J Murley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article gives an overview of the opportunities in distance learning for degree-granting programs in schools of nursing. The focus is on the unparalleled innovations in technology and the centrality of that technology to nursing education. One of the important aspects of the use of technology is the development of sound educational programs and practices. Schools of nursing embarking on a distance learning model should determine the approach that will be used and examine critical success factors to ensure a quality program and economically successful outcome. The promise of interactive communication as a pedagogical strategy has potential and promise for the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"4 1","pages":"10-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21634934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous quality improvement initiatives. A new philosophical approach to quality assurance?","authors":"J P Bellack","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80103,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership forum","volume":"4 1","pages":"4, 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21634931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}