In 2005, with financial support from the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, a pilot nursing leadership project linked pediatric oncology nurses from Canada with nurses at the La Mascota Hospital in Managua, Nicaragua. Following consultation with the pediatric oncology team in Nicaragua, a program was developed to strengthen clinical nursing leadership in a clinical setting through continuing ...

In this paper we present a detailed analysis of World of Warcraft virtual team collaboration. A number of competitive synchronous virtual teams were investigated in-situ and unobtrusively. We observed a large gap in team performance between the various teams. An initial statistic study showed that, in teams of this level, individual player performance was not the primary driver for the large di...

We developed "co-op practice(work integrated learning)”in 2005. In this practicum, teams made up of a mix of graduates and undergraduates are given projects developed by various companies. The teams have to solve the problem in six month and its long-term programs. The practicum enables the graduates to take a leadership role in project management and contributes to their area of specialization...

Team-based care is a foundation of health care redesign models like the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Yet few practices rigorously examine how the implementation of PCMH relates to teamwork. We identified factors associated with the perception of a practice operating as a real team. An online workforce survey was conducted with all staff of 12 primary care sites of Cambridge Health Alli...

Residential, long-term care serves vulnerable older adults in a facility-based environment. A new care delivery model (CDM) designed to promote more equitable care for residents was implemented in a health region in Western Canada. Leaders and managers faced challenges in implementing this model alongside other concurrent changes. This paper explores the question: How did leadership style influ...

the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between leadership styles and emotional intelligence of the group sport team coaches participating in the ninth sport olympiad for male university students in iran. 56 coaches were randomly selected based on krejcie and morgan table as the statistical sample. for collecting the data, luthans (1985) leadership style inventory and bar-on (...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about how to develop collaborative multidisciplinary research teams. METHODS Following a comprehensive needs assessment, we developed a curriculum-based, multi-disciplinary, didactic and experiential Translational Leadership training program grounded in adult learning theory. In addition, we constructed collaborative clinical/translational research experiences for...

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