Leadership, like beauty, is difficult to describe, but you know it when you see it. This intangible aspect of leadership has often led to the unfortunate perception that it is like perfect pitch—you either have it or you do not and, consequently, it cannot be learned. While the study of leadership is not an exact science (as evidenced by the many different styles of effective leaders) and there...

The concept of using a checklist in surgical and anaesthetic practice was energized by publication of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in 2008. It was believed that by routinely checking common safety issues, and by better team communication and dynamics, perioperative morbidity and mortality could be improved. The magnitude of improvement demonstrated by the WHO pilot studies was surprising. ...

AIMS To explore the feasibility of recruiting surgical oncology patients and implementing a surgical integrated discharge (SID) programme led by advanced practice providers (APP). BACKGROUND Burden of illness and complexity of treatment regimen makes it challenging for surgical oncology patients to participate in research. Surgical oncology nurses may have the necessary expertise to overcome ...

Formalized rural health service delivery networks are emerging as an over-arching response to the attrition of rural surgical and maternity services in Canada. In effective networks, there is strong collaborative leadership, form follows function, core network elements are identified and site-specific variations are accommodated to meet the surgical needs of the population in each geographic ca...

background and objectives: the healthcare organization are often fail to realize their strategic goals due to the lack of effective leadership. to address this efficiency, factors can possibly influence the management performance should be identified. thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style and explore the relationship between leadership style in hosp...

and Key Points 1. Oncology surgery includes operations to diagnose malignancy (biopsies), to remove known cancer of the primary tumor and metastases, and for palliation. 2. A fifth category of oncology surgery, reconstructive surgery, is not strictly speaking, cancer surgery, but practically all cancer operations involve some reconstruction. Frequently, plastic or vascular surgeons assist with ...

In January 2003, leadership of the Medicare National Surgical Infection Prevention Project hosted the Surgical Infection Prevention Guideline Writers Workgroup meeting. The objectives were to review areas of agreement among the published guidelines for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis, to address inconsistencies, and to discuss issues not currently addressed. The participants included authors...

Optimal management of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remains one of the highly debated areas in the field of neurosurgery. Earlier studies comparing open surgical intervention with best medical management failed to show a clear benefit. More recent experience with minimally invasive techniques has shown greater promise. Well-designed phase II trials have confirmed the safety and pre...

background in today's changing and uncertain environment, there is a need for transformational leaders. besides, due to lack of effective leaders in organizations, identifying factors influencing managers to act as transformational managers is very important. spirituality is one of the factors, which cause managers to act as transformational managers. objectives this study aimed to investigate ...

Background: Non-technical skills are interpersonal and cognitive skills involved in safe performance and preventingadverse events during surgery. it is necessary to dominate the non-technical skills to ensure patient safety. This studyhas aimed to assess the validity and reliability of Oxford Non-technical skills 2 system (Oxford NOTECHS 2) in Iran andto evaluate surgical teams’ non-technical s...