- Nursing education and management
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Ethics in medical practice
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
University of Alberta
2007-2023
Western University
2013-2022
Laurentian University
2021
Western University of Health Sciences
2014-2017
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2010-2014
City Of Hope National Medical Center
2014
Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
2014
Victorian Order of Nurses
2014
Health Research Foundation
2014
Mount Sinai Hospital
2014
Do experiences with racial discrimination at school predict changes in African American adolescents' academic and psychological functioning? Does ethnic identity buffer these relations? This paper addresses two questions using waves of data from a longitudinal study an economically diverse sample adolescents living near major East Coast metropolis. The were collected the beginning 7th grade after completion 8th grade. As expected, one's teachers peers predicts declines grades, ability...
Abstract Aim To report a study conducted to test model linking authentic leadership of managers with nurses' perceptions structural empowerment, performance, and job satisfaction. Background Authentic has been proposed as the root element effective needed build healthier work environments because there is special attention development empowering leader–follower relationships. Although influence style empowerment on satisfaction well documented, are few studies examining outcomes. Design A...
wong c.a., laschinger h. & cummings g.g. (2010) Journal of Nursing Management 18, 889–900Authentic leadership and nurses' voice behaviour perceptions care quality Aim The purpose the present study was to test a theoretical model linking authentic with staff trust in their manager, work engagement, perceived unit quality. Background Authentic is guide for effective needed build healthier environments because there special attention given honesty, integrity high ethical standards development...
giallonardo l.m., wong c.a. & iwasiw c.l. (2010) Journal of Nursing Management 18, 993–1003Authentic leadership preceptors: predictor new graduate nurses' work engagement and job satisfaction Aim To examine the relationships between perceptions preceptor authentic leadership, satisfaction. Background During a time when retention nurses is upmost importance, reliance on preceptors to facilitate transition paramount. Methods A predictive non-experimental survey design was used study variables....
Frontline mental health care professionals (FMHPs) in a variety of roles such as nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, case managers and workers are often required to provide ...
Aim To examine the effect of authentic leadership and structural empowerment on emotional exhaustion cynicism new graduates experienced acute-care nurses. Background Employee is a fundamental component healthy work environments that promote nurse health retention, nursing key to creating these environments. Method In secondary analysis data from two studies we compared pattern relationships among study variables in Ontario groups: 342 with <2 years experience 273 nurses more than 2...
Aim To examine the relationships among nurses' perceptions of nurse managers' authentic leadership, overall person–job match in six areas worklife and their work engagement. Background Reports have highlighted impact demanding unsupportive environments on wellbeing, resulting a need for strong nursing leadership to build sustainable healthier environments. Methods A secondary analysis data collected from non-experimental, predictive design survey random sample 280 registered nurses working...
As a large cohort of experienced nurses approaches retirement, it is critical to examine factors that will promote the engagement and empowerment newer workforce, allowing them provide high quality patient care. The authors used predictive, non-experimental survey design test theoretical model in sample new graduate nurses. More specifically, relationships among structural empowerment, six areas work life (conceptualized as antecedents engagement), emotional exhaustion organizational...
This longitudinal study used a national probability sample of adolescents to examine whether attachments the family and school reduced five forms adolescent deviance: cigarette smoking, alcohol use, marijuana delinquency, violent behavior. The authors assessed these factors overall frequency, prevalence, intensity each problem also examined power reduce deviance among who were differentiated in terms gender, ethnicity, their community’s level economic deprivation. Overall, tended deviant...
A decade of healthcare restructuring and policy reform has dramatically changed the working conditions Canada ' s registered nurses resulting in job insecurity stress dissatisfaction Increased
Objective: The authors tested a model linking specific leader-empowering behaviors to staff nurse perceptions of workplace empowerment, occupational stress, and work effectiveness in recently-merged Canadian acute care hospital. Summary Background Data: An integration Kanter's organizational empowerment theory Conger Kunungo's the leader process constituted theoretical framework for study. Few published studies were found which linked empirically nurses' empowerment. Methods: Staff nurses (n...
Abstract A key element of a healthy work environment is trust: trust between staff and their leaders. Authentic leadership proposed as the core effective needed to build because its clear focus on positive role modeling honesty, integrity, high ethical standards in development leader‐follower relationships. model linking authentic behaviors with management, perceptions supportive groups outcomes (including voice or speaking‐up behavior, self‐rated job performance, burnout) using secondary...
Abstract Purpose: The primary goal of this trial was to determine the response rate single-agent vorinostat in patients with metastatic breast cancer. secondary goals included assessment time progression, evaluation toxicities, and overall survival. Experimental Design: From June 2005 March 2006, 14 received vorinostat, 200 mg p.o., twice daily for days each 21 day cycle. Response progression were evaluated using Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria. Results: median age all...
Workplace empowerment is an important strategy for creating positive nursing work environments in a time of severe shortage. The purpose this study was to test model linking staff nurse perceptions their perceived fit with 6 areas life and engagement/burnout using Kanter's theory. We tested the cross-sectional correlational survey design random sample 322 nurses acute care hospitals across Ontario. Overall, environment be only somewhat empowering. Fifty-three percent reported levels burnout....