Leadership
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda.

28 Oct 2009 PROBLEM: Hospitals in rural Africa, such as in Rwanda, often lack electricity, supplies, and staff. In our setting, basic care processes, such monitoring vital signs, giving drugs, and laboratory testing, were performed unreliably, resulting in ... Read more...

Hospital strategies to engage physicians in quality improvement.

29 Sep 2009 In the last decade, growing evidence that the quality of U.S. health care is uneven at best has prompted greater attention to quality improvement, especially in the nation's hospitals. While physicians are integral to hospital quality improvement ... Read more...

Career mapping: developing nurse leaders, reinvigorating careers.

29 Sep 2009 Nurse leaders must ensure the continued development and learning of all nurses, including those who postpone participation in existing professional development activities. In this article, the authors describe a career mapping program for nurses who ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Leadership'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Why start an academy? 30 Oct 2009
• RSO Interview with Nazia Zakir. Interviewed by René Michel. 30 Oct 2009
• Lessons from nursing leaders on implementing TCAB. 30 Oct 2009
• Creating leaders for the future. 30 Oct 2009
• Commitment of the entire organization. Interview by Laurie Lewis. 30 Oct 2009
• TCAB: the 'how' and the 'what'. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda. 28 Oct 2009
• [Patients safety work also for physicians] 24 Oct 2009
• Enabling women in medicine to reach the top. 22 Oct 2009
• Hospital strategies to engage physicians in quality improvement. 29 Sep 2009
• Mentoring: our obligation ... our heritage. 29 Sep 2009
• Career mapping: developing nurse leaders, reinvigorating careers. 29 Sep 2009
• Online knowledge networking: what leaders need to know. 29 Sep 2009
• Teaching levels of evidence: the Santa project. 29 Sep 2009
• A case study in evaluating infrastructure for EBP and selecting a model. 29 Sep 2009
• Wicked problems in designing healthcare facilities. 29 Sep 2009
• Creation of a scholars program in dental leadership (SPDL) for dental and dental hygiene students. 29 Sep 2009
• Interim department chairs in academic medicine. 29 Sep 2009
• Presidential operations. 29 Sep 2009
• Presidential operations. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Leadership'

Definition: The function of directing or controlling the actions or attitudes of an individual or group with more or less willing acquiescence of the followers.

Descriptor UI: D007857

Alternative terms: Leadership; Influentials;

Tree Number: F01.752.609;

Technical Notes: no qualif