Connecting academia to practice: giving tomorrow's nursing leaders a head start.

Nurse leaders and the innovation competence gap.

BACKGROUND Nurses are well-positioned for innovation in health care delivery, although innovation is not generally learned in formal educational programs. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess critical competencies for innovation success among nurse leaders in academia and practice, the perceived gaps on those competencies, and teaching methods that would be helpful in developing co...

Today's students, tomorrow's leaders.

International collaboration: a concept model to engage nursing leaders and promote global nursing education partnerships.

This article describes a newly developed, internationally focused concept model, Engaging tomorrow's international nursing leaders (ETINL). The primary tenets of the ETINL model encourage advocacy, activism, and professional accountability in preparing nursing leadership. The article presents the foundation and application of the ETINL model in providing an on-going forum for student and facult...

Incivility in nursing: the connection between academia and clinical settings.

Incivility and bullying in nursing are complex problems that have garnered much attention in recent years. Emerging evidence suggests that incivility in the workplace has significant implications for nurses, patients, and health care organizations. Because today's students are tomorrow's colleagues, conversations regarding how to address incivility and bullying should include specific aspects o...

Making sense of Communities of Practice at the University Level: Connecting Academia and Industries

High-tech entrepreneurship education is the challenge of connecting practical university teaching with well-known concepts of life long learning in companies. New kinds of communities of practice emerge from these efforts. We present experiences made with a course in applied computer science, which was based on this concept. In our “Entrepreneurship and New Media” lab project teams of students ...