With March upon us, we have reached the one year mark since the pandemic so quickly and dramatically changed our world. We know that this year has challenged all of us in ways that we could not have imagined a year ago. Throughout this difficult year, we have been honoured to witness the strength, tenacity, and care of the members of the Partnership Grant. We are grateful too for the surprising gifts that have arisen in the form of creative and compassionate problem-solving, discovery of new opportunities, and building supportive relationships. The team has met this year with a truly Strengths-Based approach.
This month marks the mid-way point of our research project. As we prepare to submit our midterm report to the funding agencies, we are humbled by all that we have accomplished together thus far.
The coming months bring the gift of spring and the final preparations for the SBNH Leadership Program. As we prepare to launch our recruitment and welcome participants into the program, we do so with renewed optimism and hope.
Below is an excerpt from the quarterly newsletter on the activities of the Partnership.
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Executive Update:
The Executive Committee continues to meet virtually each week to strategize, review progress, and oversee administration for the project.
We are pleased to highlight our collective accomplishments since fall 2020. Together, we:
- completed the inter-provincial recruitment of faculty for the Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare-Leadership (SBNH-L) Program
- hosted a Faculty Development Day in February 2021
- developed an innovative story-sharing facilitation guide for SBNH-L faculty and mentors
- Recruited a mentorship consultant and an online course designer
- finalized the evaluation design for the SBNH Leadership Program
- developed authorship guidelines for the research team
- finalized the research protocol, including recruitment strategies for all five sites
- increased our knowledge mobilization activities, detailed below
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Knowledge Mobilization Update
Laurie Gottlieb has been invited to give a talk to the Canadian Academy of Nursing as a speaker in the inaugural Global Changemakers series, an initiative of the Canadian Nurses Association.
Co-Investigator M茅lanie Lavoie-Tremblay will give a talk entitled 鈥淪BNH: an approach to care for nursing students and nurses鈥� at the Competence Network Health Workforce virtual conference in April 2021.
RA Sonia Castiglione鈥檚 and Co-Investigator M茅lanie Lavoie-Tremblay鈥檚 co-authored paper entitled 鈥淎n integrative review of organizational barriers and facilitators to large-scale transformations in healthcare鈥� was accepted for publication in the May 2021 issue of the Journal of Nursing Administration.
Bruce and Laurie Gottlieb have authored a paper, along with Dr. Vasiliki Bitzas of the Jewish General Hospital, entitled 鈥淓mpowering Nurses & Autonomy through Nursing Leadership鈥�. This paper was requested by the Journal of Healthcare Leadership and will be published later this year.
Julie Fr茅chette and Kathleen Boies drafted a proposal for copyright of the SBNH-L Scale, a tool developed to assess the extent to which nurse managers have developed SBNH leadership behaviors. Articles arising from the development of this tool will be submitted to journals by the end of the year.
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Spotlight on SBNH-L
In a recent editorial in the Journal of Nursing Management entitled , Dr. Alistair Hewison of the University of Birmingham discussed the crisis in nursing leadership and identified several promising areas of development, introducing SBNH-L as 鈥渁 new way forward for nursing leadership research and practice鈥�. Of our project, Dr. Hewison says, 鈥淭he findings from this study鈥� will be vital in uncovering the contribution and potential of nursing leadership. Investigation of nursing leadership using new perspectives and approaches that take account of the reality of practice rather than outdated notions of what leadership should be represents an exciting opportunity to advance nursing leadership.鈥�
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Partner Profiles
In our ongoing series of profiles introducing the members of the Partnership Grant, the most recent introduces Videographer and Story-Sharing Consultant Kitra Cahana. Kitra is also the subject, along with her father and grandmother, of a new book by Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, . A conversation between Kitra and Dr. Soltes . Congratulations, Kitra!
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Closing
We are proud of and inspired by the work done by this incredible group of people during an unprecedented year. Our deep thanks to every member of this team for all they have done on behalf of this project, and on behalf of the workplaces and communities to which they belong.
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