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"But we can't go back": Unexpected consequences of raising expectations through organizational leadership development.
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Langenhoff, P., Spiers, J.A., Cummings, G.G., Bhatti, A.., Sharlow, J.
In 2004, a provincial cancer agency in Canada developed and implemented a provincewide Leadership Development Initiative (LDI) to enhance organizational leadership and relationships. Research using a quasi-experimental survey design determined whether LDI implementation influenced the emotional...
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2007-01-01
Paper published in Pacific Arts, vol 3, pp115-127 (2007). Abstract: Commoner women’s textile-work is a key medium in the ongoing process of hybridizing Tongan culture for the contemporary ‘modernity plus tradition’ present. One set of wefts for this paper are ethnographic. Commoner women’s...
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2013
Stewart, N., Morgan, D. G., Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P., Squires, J. E., Poss, J. W., Doupe, M., Teare, G. F., Cummings, G. G.
Nursing homes have become complex care environments where residents have significant needs and most have age-related dementia. Building on research by Hirdes et al. (2011), we describe a resident profile in a representative sample of 30 urban nursing homes in the prairie provinces using Resident...
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Assessing health care in Canada’s North: what can we learn from national and regional surveys?
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Young, T. Kue, Ng, Carmina, Chatwood, Susan
"Background: Health surveys are a rich source of information on a variety of health issues, including health care. Objectives: This article compares various national and regional surveys in terms of their geographical coverage with respect to the Canadian North, especially their Aboriginal...
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2013
Higginbottom, G. M., Boadu, N. Y., Pillay, J. J.
Focused ethnographies can have meaningful and useful application in primary care, community, or hospital healthcare practice, and are often used to determine ways to improve care and care processes. They can be pragmatic and efficient ways to capture data on a specific topic of importance to...
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Information sharing with rural family caregivers during care transitions of hip fracture patients.
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Elliott, J., Stolee, P., Chesworth, B. M., Ceci, C., Forbes, D
INTRODUCTION: Following hip fracture surgery, patients often experience multiple transitions through different care settings, with resultant challenges to the quality and continuity of patient care. Family caregivers can play a key role in these transitions, but are often poorly engaged in the...
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Learning Together: A Cohort Approach to Organizational Leadership Development.
2009
Sharlow, J., Langenhoff, P., Spiers, J., Bhatti, A., Cummings, G.G.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the formation of the Leadership Development Initiative (LDI) and to demonstrate how the program was collaboratively tailored to meet the organizational and developmental needs of leaders in the organization, using a learning cohort approach for...
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2004-02-01
Moore, Sean, Young-Leslie, Heather, Lavis, Carrie
his paper describes an initial attempt to assess the subjective well-being of a sample of 227 Tongans via self-report. Using items adapted from the Subjective Well Being Inventory (SUBI; Nagpal and Sell, 1985; Sell and Nagpal,1992), participants rated their level of overall life satisfaction...