Integrating Appreciative Inquiry into a Postgraduate Nurse Leadership Curriculum: Creating a Student Experience

Identifying what is working well in healthcare requires a different mindset from the traditional problemsolving approach. Integrating Appreciative Inquiry into healthcare can bring out the best in individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole. This paper presents our approach to educating nurse leaders about AI practice, by using AI to create a community of leadership and management practice in a postgraduate nursing course on leadership and management in health care.

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RESEARCH ON BUILDING THE PROBATIONARY MECHANISM FOR LEADERS AND MANAGERS AT VIETNAM ACADEMY FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES*

Tạp chí Nghiên cứu dân tộc ◽

10.25073/0866-773x/341 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Dau The Tung ◽

Phan Hong Minh

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Management Practice ◽

Leadership And Management ◽

Leadership Management

Derived from the practical requirements of leadership and management of the Vietnam Academy for Ethnic Minorities; from the assigned task functions; from the Party and State's guiding documents on leadership, management practice and issues raised from probationary leaders and managers in a number of agencies, units, ministries, the groups of authors focus on studying and formulating a probationary mechanism for leaders and managers at the Vietnam Academy for Ethnic Minorities, in which special attention is paid to the practical conditions and the peculiarities of the Vietnam Academy for Ethnic Minorities.

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A Scoping Review of Telehealth-Assisted Case Management for Chronic Illnesses

Western Journal of Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/01939459211008917 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019394592110089

Author(s):

Jee Young Joo ◽

Megan F. Liu

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Case Management ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Access To Health Care ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Care Delivery ◽

Management Practice ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Chronic Illnesses ◽

Future Research

This scoping review aimed to examine telehealth-assisted case management for chronic illnesses and assess its overall impact on health care delivery. Guided by the PRISMA statement, this review included 36 empirical studies published between 2011 and 2020. This study identified three weaknesses and four strengths of telehealth-assisted case management. While the weaknesses were negative feelings about telehealth, challenges faced by patients in learning and using telehealth devices, and increased workload for case managers, the strengths included efficient and timely care, increased access to health care services, support for patients’ satisfaction, and cost savings. Future research can be designed and conducted for overcoming the weaknesses of telehealth-assisted case management. Additionally, the strengths identified by this review need to be translated from research into case management practice for chronic illness care. This review not only describes the value of such care strategy, but also provides implications for future nursing practice and research.

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Linking authentic leadership and management capability to public hospital performance: the role of work engagement

International Journal of Organizational Analysis ◽

10.1108/ijoa-10-2020-2436 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Mohammed Aboramadan ◽

Main Naser Alolayyan ◽

Mehmet Ali Turkmenoglu ◽

Berat Cicek ◽

Caterina Farao

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Authentic Leadership ◽

Hospital Performance ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Leadership And Management ◽

Content Type ◽

Management Capability ◽

The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to propose a model of the effect of both authentic leadership and management capability on hospital performance. This model proposes work engagement as an intervening mechanism between the aforesaid links. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 380 medical staff working in Jordanian Public hospitals and were analysed using the structural equation modelling analysis technique. Findings The results suggest that both authentic leadership and management capability have a positive effect on hospital performance. Although positive, the direct effect of management capability on performance was not significant. Furthermore, work engagement demonstrated to play a full mediation effect between management capability and hospital performance and a partial mediation effect between authentic leadership and hospital performance. Practical implications This study may be of use for public medical services providers in general and other services sectors in terms of the role authentic leadership and management resources can play in contributing to positive work-related outcomes at the individual and organisational levels. Originality/value Considering the mainstream literature in health-care management, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to date to integrate the impact of both authentic leadership and management capabilities in the public health-care sector. Further, the research model has not previously been introduced when taking into account the role that work engagement can play between the examined variables.

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Developing and Using Vignettes to Explore the Relationship Between Risk Management Practice and Recovery-Oriented Care in Mental Health Services

Qualitative Health Research ◽

10.1177/1049732317725284 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 371-380 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jessica Holley ◽

Steven Gillard

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Health Workers ◽

Management Practice ◽

Health Care Research ◽

Empirical Literature ◽

Care Research

There is a lack of literature evaluating the development and use of vignettes to explore contested constructs in qualitative health care research where a conventional interview schedule might impose assumptions on the data collected. We describe the development and validation of vignettes in a study exploring mental health worker and service user understandings of risk and recovery in U.K. mental health services. Focus groups with mental health workers and service users explored study questions from experiential perspectives. Themes identified in the groups were combined with existing empirical literature to develop a set of vignettes. Feedback focus groups were conducted to validate and amend the vignettes. Following use in research interviews, results suggested that the vignettes had successfully elicited data on issues of risk and recovery in mental health services. Further research using creative, comparative methods is needed to fully understand how vignettes can best be used in qualitative health care research.

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An Oral Health Promotion Module for the Primary Health Care Nursing Course in Acornhoek, South Africa

Public Health Nursing ◽

10.1046/j.1525-1446.1999.00351.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 16 (5) ◽

pp. 351-358 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eyitope O. Ogunbodede ◽

Michael J. Rudolph ◽

Norma M. Tsotsi ◽

Helen A. Lewis ◽

Jonathan I. Iloya

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Promotion ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Oral Health ◽

Oral Health Promotion ◽

Primary Health ◽

Nursing Course ◽

Care Nursing

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Strategic leadership and management factors driving sustainability in health-care organizations in Thailand

Journal of Health Organization and Management ◽

10.1108/jhom-05-2021-0165 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Suparak Suriyankietkaew ◽

Pavinee Kungwanpongpun

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care Organizations ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Strategic Leadership ◽

Sustainable Leadership ◽

Leadership And Management ◽

Content Type ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Management Factors

Purpose This empirical study aims to identify the essential strategic leadership and management factors underlying sustainability in healthcare. It also examines which factors drive sustainability performance outcomes (SPO) in health-care organizations, an analysis lacking to date. It provides a strategic leadership and management perspective toward sustainable healthcare, responding to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.Design/methodology/approachThe investigation adopted Sustainable Leadership as its research framework. Using a cross-sectional survey, 543 employees working in health-care and pharmaceutical companies in Thailand voluntarily provided responses. Factor analyses and structural equation modeling were employed.Findings The results revealed an emergent research model and identified 20 unidimensional strategic leadership and management factors toward sustainability in healthcare. The findings indicate significant positive effects on SPO in health-care organizations. Significant factors include human resource management/development, ethics, quality, environment and social responsibility, and stakeholder considerations.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was conducted in one country. Future studies should examine these relationships in diverse contexts. In practice, health-care firms should foster significant strategic leadership and management practices to improve performance outcomes for sustainability in healthcare.Originality/value This paper is the first empirical, multidisciplinary study with a focus on strategic leadership, health-care management and organizational sustainability. It identifies a proxy for measuring the effects of essential strategic leadership and managerial factors for sustainability in pharmaceutical health-care companies. It advances our currently limited knowledge and provides managerial implications for improving performance outcomes toward sustainable healthcare.

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