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Int J Evid Based Healthc. 2006 Mar;4(1):42-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1479-6988.2006.00030.x.

Developing clinical leaders in Australian aged care homes.

International journal of evidence-based healthcare

Alan Pearson, Tim Schultz, Tiffany Conroy-Hiller

Affiliations

  1. The Joanna Briggs Institute and the University of Adelaide, Discipline of Nursing, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

PMID: 21631753 DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-6988.2006.00030.x

Abstract

The role of clinical leadership in implementing evidence based practice is increasingly recognised in the health and social care fields. This paper briefly reviews the literature on clinical leadership and evidence-based practice in aged care and describes the established of an aged care clinical fellowship program in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reports of four aged care clinical fellows reported elsewhere in this issue of the International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare.

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