KOYA, Kushwanth, ANDERSON, Jane and SICE, Petia (2017). The embodied nurse: Interdisciplinary knowledge exchange between compassionate nursing and recent developments in embodied leadership studies. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73 (12), 3028-3040.
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Abstract
Aims: To report a potential knowledge exchange between nursing studies and the
results obtained from a study conducted into the attributes of embodied leadership.
Background: Leadership theories have been applied to evaluate, improve, and train
nursing practitioners in several previous studies. However, leadership research has
entered a new phase where the focus is to produce sustainable leaders through
authenticity and compassion, the same two characteristics identified as being of
most success in emergent nursing practice. There are few studies that have indicated
a knowledge exchange between the latest developments in leadership studies
and nursing.
Design: An exploratory and qualitative study.
Methods: Between February 2012 - July 2012, a focused sample of 14 medical
care professionals was interviewed across a chain of hospitals. The aim was to evaluate
embodied leadership characteristics and understand the factors that contribute
to the manifestation of these characteristics. The transcribed interviews were analysed
using thematic analysis.
Findings: Several factors that contribute to the characteristics of embodied leadership
have been identified in the interviews and in subsequent literature searches on
the characteristics and contributing factors found to be associated with nursing
research. These could prompt a knowledge exchange.
Conclusion: The results suggest common ground between nursing and contemporary
leadership research in the exposition of behaviours; namely, being non-judgmental,
listening actively, reflective practice and embracing uncertainty. Several
implications can therefore be expected through the exchange of knowledge resulting
from collaboration between researchers in the two disciplines.
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