Knowledge is power: using nursing information management and leadership interventions to improve services to patients, clients and users

Abstract

The conclusion is that sustained quality information could be embedded in nursing practice at Yelday Lodge or elsewhere by evaluating and discussing the different information management approaches within the practice area through the use of structured management and leadership interventions. The use of the CLINLAP model is recommended for use as a model for managing information, knowledge and communication for results within nursing and health care services.

Positive Interventions in Positive Organizations

“…Such leaders should inspire trust, respect, and pride so as to increase optimism, hope, and resilience in order to develop to a greater extent than expected (Quick, Macik-Frey, Mack, Keller, Gray, & Cooper, 2006). In a number of different studies transformational leaders have been shown to have a positive impact on: (1) followers' information and learning, as well as on their capacity to go about their daily clinical activities and to improve the quality of service with the patients (Phillips, 2005); (2) individual and collective work engagement through the "contagion of engagement" (Bakker, Le Blanc, & Schaufeli, 2005) from one team member to another, especially when their members collaborate closely to accomplish particular tasks (Salanova, Llorens, Cifre, Martínez, & Schaufeli, 2003); (3) followers' health and well-being (Nielsen, Yarker, Randall, & Munir, 2009); (4) positive affect experience (relaxation, enthusiasm, pleasure, optimism, resilience, and job satisfaction) and work engagement (Llorens, Salanova, & Losilla, 2009), as well as in-and extra-role performance in teams (Cruz et al, in press); (5) self-efficacy, work engagement, and extra-role performance (Salanova, Lorente, Chambel, & Martínez, 2011); and (6) the performance of the group, particularly when leaders transfer their positive emotions (George, 1996).…”

Nursing leadership development: why should any nurse be led by you?

“…These transformation processes (see Figure 1), if clear and unambiguous, will lead nurses to implement good management and leadership while simultaneously delivering high‐quality care and service for and with patients, clients and colleagues (see Jumaa & Alleyne 2002, 2007, Kennedy & Jumaa 2002, Jumaa et al. 2005, Phillips 2005, Phillips et al. 2005, Alleyne & Jumaa 2007, Jumaa & Rendal 2007).…”

“…The time is now. We need to get on with leading and managing and get the results our stakeholders need and desire (Jumaa 2005a, Phillips 2005, Jumaa & Rendal 2007). When we write and talk about leadership or/and management and leadership development (MLD) we need to stop debating about their definitions.…”

“…Based on the evidence that organizations that encourage and facilitate a culture of learning among employees in the work place outperform those that do not (Goffee & Jones 2000, Goleman 2000, Burgoyne et al. 2004, Phillips 2005, Phillips et al. 2005, Mabey 2005, Alleyne & Jumaa 2007), this editorial is presented under four sections.…”

PSYCHOMS®, An electronic nursing management system to facilitate interdisciplinary communication and improve patient outcomes in psychiatric hospitals

“…Psychiatric hospitals are encouraged to develop support programs to facilitate the integration of patients with mental disorders back into the community [1]. The following considerations are 978-1-61284-729-01111$26.00 ©2011 IEEE 447 relevant to providing timely adjustment of psychiatric services in order to achieve the goal of reintegration of psychiatric inpatients back into the community [2][3][4][5][6] The creation of an operating system that facilitates cooperation between the hospital staff and the patient's family and care givers;…”