Developing Future Aviation Leaders: Advice from Today’s Leaders!

Developing the future nurse leaders of Fiji.

BACKGROUND Nurse leaders in Fiji are currently involved in meeting the challenges of being at the forefront of an AusAID supported Health Sector Improvement process. Fiji is experiencing the same shortages of health professionals (including nurses) as is occurring internationally, while simultaneously striving to improve the quality of its health services. PRIMARY ARGUMENT This paper provides...

Developing leaders? Developing countries?

A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the way to develop an economy. But ...

Elements of success in telemedicine programs: advice from telemedicine leaders.

Developing dental hygiene students as future leaders in legislative advocacy.

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of a legislative advocacy project on the knowledge, values, and actions of dental hygiene students enrolled in a leadership course. A quasi-experimental design was employed with a convenience sample of twenty-one undergraduate and seventeen graduate students. The data collection instrument was designed by the authors with three scale...

Building a successful career: advice from leaders in thoracic surgery.

The contributors to this article have been recognized as outstanding leaders in thoracic surgery. Each has addressed particular elements that he or she considers to be important in developing a successful thoracic surgical career. These unique perspectives provide valuable insights.