The future of leadership: A practitioner view

Assessing leadership in nurse practitioner candidates

Objective The aim of this study was to explore the concept of leadership as it applies to nurse practitioners (NPs) and examine the issues around assessing NP candidates in Australia for leadership qualities. Setting Currently in Australia, registration as a nurse, midwife, enrolled nurse or nurse practitioner is conducted at the Assessing leadership in nurse practitioner candidates state or te...

Understanding leadership in community nursing in Scotland.

There is limited evidence concerning leadership in community nursing. NHS policy also fails to clarify and define what leadership is, though regarding it as key to developing safe and high quality care. This paper reports the findings of a research study that aimed to identify how leadership is perceived and experienced by community nurses, and to examine the interaction between recent policy a...

Emotional Intelligence : Sine Qua Non of Leadership or Folderol ?

Executive Overview Emotional intelligence (EI) is a divisive topic for many individuals interested in the subject of leadership. Whereas practitioner-oriented publications have claimed that EI is the sine qua non of leadership, academics continue to discuss EI’s relevance for understanding leadership emergence, behavior, and effectiveness. Here we critically review recent empirical evidence to ...

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it

The nurse practitioner role: into the future.

Advanced practice nursing in Canada is receiving attention locally and nationally as gaps in our healthcare system persist, specifically as they relate to access to care and wait times. Nationally, nurse practitioners (NPs) and nursing leaders have developed documents that begin to define the foundation required for the successful introduction, evolution, evaluation and sustainability of the NP...