Implementing Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare: A Decade of Leadership and Learning in a Canadian Pediatric Rehabilitation Setting.

The nursing context in pediatric rehabilitation is that of caring for children with disabilities and complex developmental differences and health conditions in an ever-changing and demanding environment. Rehabilitation nurses aim to continuously advance nursing leadership, practice, education and research to meet service needs. Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare (SBNH) is a philosophy and value-driven approach that aligns with and enables the advancement of strengths-based rehabilitation nursing and family-centred care.

Balancing Resiliency and New Accountabilities: Insights from Chief Nurse Executives amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This article outlines how chief nurse executives (CNEs) in an urban regional hospital network are navigating the balancing act of organizational (internal) and system-level (regional and/or provincial) accountabilities amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Key to their leadership efforts is finding the right balance in making critical decisions and building trust to ensure staff resiliency and safety amid managing their own resilience while enacting both internal and external accountabilities. These accountabilities include having presence and influence at the regional planning, executive planning and incident command decision-making tables.

Towards a Responsive, Sustainable and Collaborative Model of Care at Toronto's Michael Garron Hospital.

In 2008, Michael Garron Hospital, transformed its approach to care delivery. The rationale: to improve quality, increase safety and boost patient and staff engagement and satisfaction. The Coordinated Care Team (CCT) model has enabled nurses to not only work to their full scopes of practice within a team of interprofessional providers and unlicensed staff, but also helped create a culture of safety and patient-centredness in a value-driven context.