Around the World

The Truth about Burnout has now been translated into Estonian. It joins a long list of other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, German, Swedish, Italian, Greek, and Slovenian.

Media Coverage

Dr. Leiter was interviewed for an article for New York Magazine entitled "Can’t Get any Satisfaction: in a culture where work can be a religion, burnout is its crisis of faith." [more]

Projects

Nursing Leadership

COR&D is involved in a new project on nursing leadership with Dr. Laschinger from the University of Western Ontario. The project, Nurses’ Career Aspirations to Management Roles: Identifying the Next Generation of Nursing Leaders, is a national study with data gathered from Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada. In the Atlantic region we will conduct 5 focus groups with staff nurses and managers and 5 interviews with new managers in June 2009. In 2010, we will distribute surveys to nurses from the 4 Maritime provinces.  [more]

Enhancing the Quality of Workplace Communities

COR&D is pleased to announce Enhancing the Quality of Workplace Communities, a new three year project funded through the Partnerships for Health Improvement program of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca). The project is receiving additional funding from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (www.nshrf.ca), Health Canada (Office of Nursing Policy), and the participating district health authorities and hospitals for a total over $400,000.  [more]

Developing a Safety Culture: Shared Assumptions and Interventions

Creating a Safety Culture (March 09-Feb 10) COR&D, with the South Shore District Health Authority, received funding from WorkSafe BC to conduct a project to increase the Safety Culture among nursing staff. Despite the presence of informed policies, training in effective procedures and availability of relevant technology, preventable injuries continue to occur. Anecdotal reports convey that safety practices on hospital units are not consistent with policies and procedures. This research project tested a workgroup intervention to enhance safety citizenship among nurses. [more project information]  [view timetable poster]
We will be holding a conference February 10th in Bridewater. [view conference invitation]

Department of Health Responsive Leadership Project

COR&D was contracted to develop a highly interactive ten month program to increase change leadership capacity in continuing care leaders and in the continuing care sector as a whole. [more]

NSHRF Research Capacity Awards - Research on Aging in Nova Scotia

As a result of a workshop sponsored by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF), a new collaborative team was developed. The team will develop an application for a Community Alliance Research Grant in January, 2009. The team is looking at the quality of work life in continuing care during the transition to the new model of service delivery. Please contact cord@acadiau.ca if you would like more information or to get involved with the team.