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1. Building Leadership Capital: A Nurse-Librarian Knowledge Transfer Partnership Patricia Barrett Analyn Cohen Baker University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries Canadian Health Libraries Association Conference May 31, 2007

2. Overview • Nursing Environment in Manitoba • Nursing Leadership Framework • Nurse-Librarian Partnership • Webliographies • Project Challenges Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

3. Nurses, Nurses, Everywhere! • 1960s to 1980s • Overall expansion of the Canadian nursing workforce • Example: 1972 • Approximately 600 new nursing graduates Baumgart, Alice J. (1997). Hospital reform and nursing labor market trends in Canada. Medical Care. 35 (10), Supplement: OS124-OS131. Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

4. Where Did the Nurses Go? • 1990s • Victims of health care restructuring • Loss of full-time positions • Direct layoffs • Conversion to part-time and casual status • Example: 1999 • 200 nursing graduates Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

5. How Did We Get Them Back? • 2000 • Manitoba’s Five-Point Nursing Strategy • Increase the supply of nurses • Improve access to staff development • Improve the utilization of nurses • Improve working conditions • Increase nurses’ opportunities to provide input into decision-making . Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

6. Nursing Numbers • 1. Increase the supply of nurses • 2000 – present • Recruitment • Nursing Recruitment & Retention Fund • Increase nursing education seats • “Come Home to Manitoba” campaign • Nursing Refresher Programs Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

7. So Now We Have More Nurses … Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

8. ... But Why So Few Leaders • 1980 - present • A decrease of 10,000 management positions held by RNs in Canadian hospitals • Elimination of “assistant” management positions removed the natural career path from clinician to manager Aiken, L.H., Clarke, S.P., Sloane, D.M., Sochalski, J., & Silber, J.H. (2002). Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 1987-1993 Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

9. Staff Development • 2. Improve access to staff development • Educational initiatives • Leadership tool for potential nurse leaders • Dorothy Wylie Nursing Leadership Framework Simpson, B., Skelton-Green, J., & O’Brien-Pallas, L.(2002). Building capacity in nursing: creating a leadership institute. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 15 (3), 22-27. Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

10. Nursing Leadership Development Framework Components • Business of Health Care • Relationship Management • Resource Management • Competencies of Leadership • Use of Self • Profession of Nursing Elements Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

11. Building Leadership Capital: A Nurse-Librarian Knowledge Transfer Partnership • Promotion of the leadership program • Opportunity for librarians to contribute to the development of effective nurse leaders Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

12. Filling in the Framework

13. Nursing Offensive Launched • Nursing Leadership Council outline of modified Dorothy M. Wylie Framework: • approximately 140 literature searches • Council determined criteria: • online articles only (no books) • contain abstracts • ability to append comments to each article • one click to the full-text article • RefWorks/RefShare chosen Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

14. As it Turned Out… • Content suitable • Comments feature suitable • RefShare format not visually appealing • Learning curve (RefWorks navigation, searching articles by keyword or in-house subject headings, linking to full-text articles) Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

15. Back to the Drawing Board • Webliography format: • visual appeal • easy to navigate • SFX enabled • comments • Prototype webliography created with links to full-text articles • Included books, e-books, audio-visual resources, and web sites for comprehensive coverage Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

16. Webliography Creation • Editorial guidelines for standards, consistency, and authorial direction • APA style • resource order on page • navigation menu/tools • Team training for webliographers • access rights to web management software • software training • collaborative working sessions Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

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18. 11-Step Leadership Program Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

19. WRHA Link to Libraries’ Webliographies Instructions for obtaining full-text articles from the Library Link from each element to the webliography on the Libraries’ web site Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

20. Webliographies Home Page Link to WRHA Nursing Leadership Program web site Four components and their elements Article Index Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

21. Webliography Example Component: Business of Health Care Element: Relationship Management Page navigation menu Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

22. Webliography Example: Journal Articles Articles selected by WRHA Nursing Leadership Council UM Links: SFX link to full-text articles or Document Delivery order form Forum: nurses can post online comments about articles Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

23. SFX: Article Linking or Document Delivery Nurses can access full-text article from the Libraries’ licensed resources Document Delivery menu will appear if an article is not available online Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

24. nTreePoint Software: Article Forum Type in comment and click “Add” Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

25. Webliography Example: Books Books available in the University of Manitoba Libraries Titles linked directly to the Library Catalogue Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

26. Webliography Example: Practice Guidelines and Online Resources Practice Guidelines and Online Resources link directly, where possible, to the document Navigation links for webliographies site Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

27. Health Sciences Libraries’ Home Page Nursing Leadership link under “Health Topics” www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/health Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

28. Project Challenges • Evolving framework • Develop a labelling system for literature • Streamline method to transmit literature search results to Nursing Leadership Council • Archives for older journal articles • Assess outcome of program Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

29. Project Summary This knowledge transfer process will enable nurses to: • Focus on competencies of leadership and their application to nursing practice • Self-identify/identify potential leaders • Access the best leadership evidence • Communicate with peers and mentors about leadership literature Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries

30. Webliographies Team Patricia Barrett Analyn Cohen Baker Laurie Blanchard Lisa Demczuk Lori Giles-Smith Tania Gottschalk Kerry Macdonald Angela Osterreicher Melissa Raynard Christine Shaw-Daigle Patricia Barrett and Analyn Cohen Baker, UM Health Sciences Libraries