The career core of successful scientific leaders in nursing – Their motivators and strategies
(2020) In Journal of Healthcare Leadership 12. p.49-57- Abstract
Background: No studies explore the career core of successful scientific leaders in nursing, a context where role models and career support would be desirable. To achieve a successful academic career, there is a need for an in-depth understanding of how successful scientific leaders in healthcare think in order to guide junior researchers through their early careers. Aim: To explore the main concern of successful scientific leaders in nursing and their mindset, motivators and strategies for dealing with it. Methods: A strategic group of 24 scientific leaders in nursing (professors and associate professors) in the United States (US) (n=12) and Sweden (n=12) was interviewed. The transcribed text was analysed using grounded theory. Results:... (More)
Background: No studies explore the career core of successful scientific leaders in nursing, a context where role models and career support would be desirable. To achieve a successful academic career, there is a need for an in-depth understanding of how successful scientific leaders in healthcare think in order to guide junior researchers through their early careers. Aim: To explore the main concern of successful scientific leaders in nursing and their mindset, motivators and strategies for dealing with it. Methods: A strategic group of 24 scientific leaders in nursing (professors and associate professors) in the United States (US) (n=12) and Sweden (n=12) was interviewed. The transcribed text was analysed using grounded theory. Results: The core category, fulfilment, summarizes a process where the generated grounded theory is presented through four main categories: create, struggle, interact and maintain, illustrating how the informants dealt with fulfilment, which was their main concern. The theoretical link between the strategies is professional dedication through reflection, characterized by a will to go beyond themselves to be clinically useful and implement their research. Conclusion: Successful scientific leaders in nursing construct a foundation for professional fulfilment by doing good for patients and improving the healthcare system maintaining being creative and interacting with others, all of which involve a great deal of struggle.
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- Garmy, Pernilla LU and Forsberg, Anna LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Grounded theory, Leadership, Nursing, Nursing science, Qualitative research
- in
- Journal of Healthcare Leadership
- volume
- 12
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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- pmid:32753995
- scopus:85090734739
- ISSN
- 1179-3201
- DOI
- 10.2147/JHL.S255093
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 4f372d63-ee45-47f6-83b1-db1a476d042d
- date added to LUP
- 2020-10-26 10:45:23
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