Toward a National Initiative in Cancer Rehabilitation: Recommendations From a Subject Matter Expert Group.

The health care delivery system in the United States is challenged to meet the needs of a growing population of cancer survivors. A pressing need is to optimize overall function and reduce disability in these individuals. Functional impairments and disability affect most patients during and after disease treatment.

Part 1: The influence of personal and situational predictors on nurses' aspirations to management roles: preliminary findings of a national survey of Canadian nurses.

Aim: To examine the influence of personal and situational factors on direct-care nurses' interests in pursuing nursing management roles.

Background: Nursing managers are ageing and nurses do not appear to be interested in nursing management roles, raising concerns about a nursing leadership shortage in the next decade. Little research has focused on factors influencing nurses' career aspirations to nursing management roles.

Part 2: Nurses' career aspirations to management roles: qualitative findings from a national study of Canadian nurses.

Aim: Our aim was to investigate direct-care nurses' interests in formal management roles and factors that facilitate their decision-making.

Background: Based on a projected shortage of nurses by 2022, the profession could be short of 4200 nurse managers in Canada within the next decade. However, no data are currently available that identify nurses' interests in assuming manager roles.

Parish nursing and hospitals.

Parish nursing is an emerging area of specialized professional nursing practice that focuses on health maintenance and health promotion for parishioners and the community. Health care occurs across a continuum along which hospitals provide a key function. There is a role for hospitals in relation to parish nursing and faith-based health care organizations have a greater obligation than secular ones to partner with parish nursing programs.

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path" Abraham Lincoln.

We see nursing leadership existing at all levels in nursing...