Worth the risk? Contemporary indications, yield and complications of lumbar punctures in a metropolitan Australian health service.

Background: Performing lumbar punctures carries a risk of harm to the patient, but the information cerebrospinal fluid provides often makes this procedure necessary. Clinicians in the Australian setting would benefit from having more information on these procedures, in order to help them in a risk versus benefit analysis.

Aims: To describe the contemporary indications, cerebrospinal fluid findings and complications of lumbar punctures in a metropolitan Australian health service.

Co-inquiry during unprecedented times.

The confluence of crises facing our global and local communities have challenged leadership educators to think and practice differently. This has meant shifts in how we teach, how we connect with students, and how we understand our role in making change in our institutions and communities. How can we navigate change personally and as a community? The purpose of this article is to introduce co-inquiry as an emerging method for professional community building, leadership learning, and action-oriented research.

Waves of change: Responding, recovering, and rebuilding in crisis.

In this article, we use the metaphor of a tsunami to illustrate the waves of change brought on by the global pandemic. We discuss the role of leadership educators in responding, recovering, and rebuilding in the aftermath of crisis. We draw from transition theory and complex adaptive leadership theory for sense-making and action.

Addressing contextual influences: Utilizing critical perspectives and social justice to inform leadership praxis.

Events, movements, and tragedies at the local, national, and global levels spark conversations that influence leaders' thinking and behavior. Understanding complexities of contextual factors as they relate to broader conversations and influence thinking and behaviors is a crucial step that can be overlooked. This article explores utilizing critical perspectives and social justice to inform leadership praxis.

A call for transdisciplinary approaches to address complex challenges.

Leadership education as a field of study has largely been considered multi- or interdisciplinary, yet many leadership educators find their programs siloed within the constructs of higher education institutions inadequate in addressing complex issues of today's world. The authors challenge organizations to embrace a truly transdisciplinary approach to equipping students with the capacity and skills to address issues of the world today.

Leadership educators: Acknowledging our whole selves in the work.

This article dives into the complexity of managing our "self" and our "roles," and how we can acknowledge the vast multitudes contained in each of our identities in our work as leadership educators. We wanted to incorporate a more conversational format to this article by highlighting the different ways ideas can be expressed and the gifts of the co-inquiry discussion model for gleaning deeper insights into a topic.