Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 29 Issue 7

Research “push”, long term-change, and general practice

Andrew Morden, Lauren Brooks, Clare Jinks, Mark Porcheret, Bie Nio Ong, Krysia Dziedzic

Intervention evaluations have not always accounted for long-term implementation of interventions. The purpose of this paper is to explore implementation of a primary care…

The contribution of community leadership upon the performance of mutual health organisations in Ghana

Augustine Adomah-Afari

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of social dynamics on the performance of mutual health organisations (MHOs) exploring the influence of community wealth and…

Participation in medical college activities: a case study of the Australasian experience

Nicola McNeil, Sandra Leggat, Timothy Bartram

Medical Colleges rely on the volunteer labour of their Fellows to undertake their key functions. In the Australasian context, there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that Fellow…

Reorganising hospitals to implement a patient-centered model of care: Effects on clinical practice and professional relationships in the Italian NHS

Elisa Giulia Liberati, Mara Gorli, Giuseppe Scaratti

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the introduction of a patient-centered model (PCM) in Italian hospitals affects the pre-existent configuration of clinical work and…

Culture and cognition in health systems change

Jenna M. Evans, G. Ross Baker, Whitney Berta, Jan Barnsley

Large-scale change involves modifying not only the structures and functions of multiple organizations, but also the mindsets and behaviours of diverse stakeholders. This paper…

The impact of mindfulness on leadership effectiveness in a health care setting: a pilot study

Louise Wasylkiw, Judith Holton, Rima Azar, William Cook

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of mindfulness awareness practice (MAP) on mid-level health-care managers’ leadership.

Examining challenges to reliability of health service accreditation during a period of healthcare reform in Australia

David Greenfield, Deborah Debono, Anne Hogden, Reece Hinchcliff, Virginia Mumford, Marjorie Pawsey, Johanna Westbrook, Jeffrey Braithwaite

Health systems are changing at variable rates. Periods of significant change can create new challenges or amplify existing barriers to accreditation program credibility and…

Lessons from Albion: Can Australia learn from England’s approach to primary healthcare funding?

Richard Norman, Suzanne Robinson

As Australia struggles to meet increased demand for healthcare and contain expenditure there has been a focus on primary care and its role in demand management and keeping people…

How hospitalists work to pull healthcare teams together

Benjamin Chesluk, Elizabeth Bernabeo, Siddharta Reddy, Lorna Lynn, Brian Hess, Thor Odhner, Eric Holmboe

– The purpose of this paper is to document everyday practices by which hospitalist physicians negotiate barriers to effective teamwork.

Providing rehabilitation online – invisible work and diagnostic agents

Malene Bødker, Annegrete Juul Nielsen

Telecare promises to deliver healthcare services more efficiently while, at the same time, improving the quality of care. The purpose of this paper is to challenge these promises…

Hospital management training for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: time for a change?

Fauziah Rabbani, Farah Naz Hashmani, Aftab A Ali Mukhi, Xaher Gul, Nousheen Pradhan, Peter Hatcher, Mounir Farag, Farhat Abbas

The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office has emphasized health system strengthening among the top five strategic priorities. One of the integral elements of health systems…

Evaluating Schwartz Center Rounds® in an urban hospital center

Denise Irene Deppoliti, Denise Côté-Arsenault, Gina Myers, Jennifer Barry, Connie Randolph, Brendan Tanner

Schwartz Center Rounds® (SCRs) bring multidisciplinary caregivers together to discuss authentic patient cases from the social and emotional perspective. The monthly sessions…

Strategies to promote practice nurse capacity to deliver evidence-based care: An example from sexual healthcare

Ann Dadich, Penny Abbott, Hassan Hosseinzadeh

Evidence-based practice is pivotal to effective patient care. However, its translation into practice remains limited. Given the central role of primary care in many healthcare…

Responses to professional identity threat: Identity management strategies in incident narratives of health care professionals

Annemiek van Os, Dick de Gilder, Cathy van Dyck, Peter Groenewegen

The purpose of this paper is to explore sensemaking of incidents by health care professionals through an analysis of the role of professional identity in narratives of incidents…

Managing processes of inpatient care and treatment: Swedish healthcare process managers’ descriptions

Kerstin Nilsson, Mette Sandoff

The purpose of this paper is to establish a knowledge bank for the development of overall hospital processes. Description and analysis are used to show how process managers…

The importance of role sending in the sensemaking of change agent roles

Danielle A Tucker, Jane Hendy, James Barlow

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what happens when a lack of role-sending results in ambiguous change agent roles during a large scale organisational reconfiguration…

Is psychotropic medication use related to organisational and treatment culture in residential care

Kathryn Peri, Ngaire Kerse, Simon Moyes, Shane Scahill, Charlotte Chen, Jae Beom Hong, Carmel M Hughes

– The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between organisational culture and psychotropic medication use in residential care.

Managing different forms of distances in Dutch healthcare organizations: The relation between managers and professionals as a dynamic continuum of distance and proximity

Annemiek Stoopendaal

Dichotomous “gap” thinking about professionals and managers has important limits. The purpose of this paper is to study the specific ontology of “the gap” in which different forms…

New nurse transition: success through aligning multiple identities

Yee Mun Jessica Leong, Joanna Crossman

The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of new nurses in Singapore of their experiences of role transition and to examine the implications for managers in terms of…

Configurations of leadership practices in hospital units

Ninna Meier

– The purpose of this paper is to explore how leadership is practiced across four different hospital units.

Investigating healthcare IT innovations: a “conceptual blending” approach

Steven Cranfield, Jane Hendy, Barnaby Reeves, Andrew Hutchings, Simon Collin, Naomi Fulop

The purpose of this paper is to better understand how and why adoption and implementation of healthcare IT innovations occur. The authors examine two IT applications, computerised…