Leadership Research in Nursing and Health
AHFMR Research Program Establishment Grant
Start/End Dates: 2006 - 2010
Investigators: Cummings GG (PI)
Funder: AHFMR
Grant Amount: $253,000
Description: This start up grant supported the establishement of Cummings CLEAR Outcomes research program, which has the following objectives:
- Investigate new and existing theoretical conceptualizations of leadership and develop a comprehensive taxonomy of current leadership measures used in the many academic disciplines interested in leadership, including healthcare.
- Investigate the evidence for specific organizational and individual interventions to develop healthcare leadership in individuals and organizations.
- Investigate how (the mechanisms by which) specific leadership styles and practices influence the healthcare workplace environment, and healthcare provider and patient/client health outcomes.
- Examine the processes by which senior healthcare leaders implement policy and evidence-based decision-making, and thereby investigate how leadership facilitates or inhibits health practitioners, particularly nurses, in achieving evidence based practice and optimum patient outcomes.
- Analyze the impact of leadership on health system, nursing and patient outcomes.
Publications:
Cummings GG, MacGregor T, Davey M, Lee HP, Wong C, Lo E, Muise M, Stafford E. (2010). Leadership styles and outcome patterns for the nursing workforce and work environments: A systematic review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 47 (3): 363-385.
Cummings GG, Lee H, MacGregor T, Davey A, Wong C, Paul L, Stafford E. (2008). Factors contributing to nursing leadership: A systematic review. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 13 (4): 240-248.
Cummings GG, Midodzi W, Wong CA, Estabrooks CA. (2010). The contribution of hospital nursing leadership styles to 30-day patient mortality. Nursing Research, 59 (5): 331-339.
Estabrooks CA, Midodzi W, Cummings GG, Wallin L. (2007). Predicting research use in nursing organizations: A multi-level analysis. Nursing Research, 56 (4, Suppl 1): S7-S23.
Cummings GG, Estabrooks CA, Midodzi W, Wallin L, Hayduk L. (2007). Influence of organizational characteristics and context on research utilization. Nursing Research, 56 (4, Suppl 1): S24-S29.
Midodzi W, Hayduk L, Cummings GG, Estabrooks CA, Wallin L. (2007). An alternative approach to addressing missing indicators in parallel data sets: Research Utilization as a phantom latent variable. Nursing Research, 56 (4, Suppl 1): S47-S52.
Adewale A, Hayduk L, Estabrooks CA, Cummings GG, Midodzi W, Derksen L. (2007). Understanding Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications in Nursing Research. Nursing Research, 56 (4, Suppl 1): S40-S46.