Justin James Kennedy
Title: The vital role of coaching leadership skills of nurses with applied neurological tools and in the development of the first Nursing Leadership Academy in the Middle East Region of Neuroscience to sustain performance in the hospital context and the application of appropriate neuro-cardiac technology.
Biography
Biography: Justin James Kennedy
Abstract
The literature has not yet been synthesized and there is a lack of clarity on what constitutes effective leadership for research use, in the Middle East or what kinds of intervention effectively develop leadership for the purpose of coaching and enhancing clinical practice. We synthesized the evidence on leadership coaching behaviors amongst nurses to then determine the effectiveness of interventions that promote these leadership behaviors Methods/Design A narrative synthesis will be further conducted to synthesize diverse forms of evidence. Narrative synthesis integrates evidence from multiple research designs, including experimental, quasi-experimental and observational studies to generate new insights for policy and practice and will be helpful in generating hypotheses for future experimental studies. This approach has been selected because the majority of leadership and management research is descriptive. A review of leadership research in health and business found that only 5 of 5,728 articles (less than 0.3%) investigated a correlation between leadership and measurable outcomes in nursing. With recent interests in healthcare leadership and research use, however, we anticipate more studies in the ME region. We used a systematic four-stage approach to conduct the review, in line with methodological guidelines set forth by Grimshaw. Using an integrated knowledge translation approach that supports a partnership between researchers and knowledge users throughout the research process, we further follow principles of knowledge synthesis using a systematic method to synthesize different types of evidence involving: searching the literature, study selection, data extraction, and quality assessment, and analysis. A narrative synthesis will be further conducted to explore relationships within and across studies and meta-analysis will be performed if sufficient homogeneity exists across studies employing experimental randomized control trial designs along with interviews of current nurses pre and post coaching. Findings and Discussion With coaching leadership to enhance engagement we will further synthesize healthcare and leadership research to understand what enables nurses to develop the leadership within an academy for the purpose of enhancing research use in clinical practice. The current results show a pressing need for such an academy. We present the medical, hospital needs achieved from the development of a leadership academy and coaching journey for nurses. The result has been the formulation of a leadership academy for nurses within a leading hospital group to coach and develops leading nurses.