Nursing Leadership

Canadian Nursing Leadership Study

The overall goal of this study is to profile nursing leadership/management structures in current Canadian hospitals by examining the organizational and structural characteristics of nursing management roles in 67 teaching and community hospitals. This study will also examine how nursing leadership roles in hospital settings across Canada have changed and the factors that are important in enabling nurse leaders to perform their roles.

Nursing Leadership Study Webpage

Since 1992 Dr. Laschinger has been Principal Investigator of a program of research at the University of Western Ontario School of Nursing designed to investigate nursing work environments using Rosabeth Moss Kanter's organizational empowerment theory. Current directions of this research involve extending the workplace empowerment model to nursing practice behaviour and linking it to patient empowerment.

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Summary Leadership Program Chart

CASN National Office has prepared a summary of leadership programs available in Canada and the United States.

Click here to view chart (under review - 2009)

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation - EXTRA Program

The Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) is a national training program giving health-system managers the skills to better use research in their day-to-day work.

Click here to access CHSRF EXTRA