The experiences of patients, caregivers and donors on transplant journeys in Canada: A convergent parallel mixed methods study.

Introduction: The organ donation and transplantation (ODT) system in Canada is complex and can be challenging for individuals to navigate. We thus aimed to illuminate the experiences of individuals on transplant journeys using a patient-oriented convergent parallel mixed-methods approach.

Methods: We captured data on adult patients, living donors, and caregivers on transplant journeys across Canada through an online survey (n = 935) and focus groups (n = 21).

Student-faculty relationships and its impact on academic outcomes.

Objective: The aim of this review of the literature is to synthesis the knowledge attained about determinants of student-faculty relationships and its impact on student outcomes. While adding to the body knowledge, the researchers discuss the importance, barriers, and facilitators to student-faculty academic relationships in nursing education.

Design: We conducted a narrative literature review using a modified version of the framework of the Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome method to develop the research question for this review.

Parental Evaluation of a Nurse Practitioner-Developed Pediatric Neurosurgery Website.

Background: Parents often turn to the Internet to seek health information about their child's diagnosis and condition. Information, support, and resources regarding pediatric neurosurgery are scarce, hard to find, and difficult to comprehend. To address this gap, a pediatric nurse practitioner designed a website called the Neurosurgery Kids Fund (NKF).

Teaching EBP Using Game-Based Learning: Improving the Student Experience.

Background: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is considered a key entry to practice competency for nurses. However, many baccalaureate nursing programs continue to teach "traditional" nursing research courses that fail to address many of the critical knowledge, skills, and attitudes that foster EBP. Traditional classroom teaching strategies do little to promote the development of competencies critical for engaging in EBP in clinical contexts.

Shifting the Balance: Relationship as Power in Organizational Life.

Background: Power has traditionally been studied and experienced within organizations from a hierarchical and positivist perspective. However, organizational complexity has never been greater, and in our attempts to find new ways to live amid this complexity we seek alternative theoretical perspectives that may better represent and inform our experiences of organizational life.

Aims: This article summarizes the positivist view of power within organizations and the limitations of attempting to study power from this perspective.

Complex responsive processes: a new lens for leadership in twenty-first-century health care.

Problem: Health care is currently in the midst of an age change. Leadership styles and organizational structures that were prevalent in the twentieth century no longer apply in twenty-first-century health care. Leaders of health care must embrace and help others to embrace new ways of being and relating in twenty-first-century organizations.