The Development and Implementation of a Model of Nursing Clinical Practice: A Journey.

The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) is a large academic health sciences centre that employs over 4,300 nurses. TOH came into existence in 1998 with the provincially mandated merger of five academic and community hospitals. In addition to the challenges of merging competitive cultures and differing work processes, patient care was carried out at the different campuses through diverse delivery models.

Implementation of an Electronic Data Collection Tool to Monitor Nursing-Sensitive Indicators in a Large Academic Health Sciences Centre.

Background: Monitoring the quality of nursing care is essential to identify patients at risk, measure adherence to hospital policies and evaluate the effectiveness of best practice interventions. However, monitoring nursing-sensitive indicators (NSI) is a challenge. Prevalence surveys are one method used by some organizations to monitor NSI, which are patient outcomes that are directly affected by the quantity or quality of nursing care that the patient receives.

A span of control tool for clinical managers.

During the second half of the 1990s, healthcare in Canada experienced significant downsizing and reform. One of the consequences of these reorganizations has been a reduction in the number of clinical managers and a significant increase in their span of control, to the point that often their abilities to fulfil their role as clinical managers are hindered (Altaffer 1998; Counsell et al. 2001; Pabst 1993).

Developing global leaders through doctoral education.

Nursing leadership has become a major theme of discussions in many countries. The phenomenon is also present in nursing as the profession is redesigning and reinventing itself in all domains of practice. This paper discusses the development of global nursing leaders through doctoral education in the context of 21st century realities.