Research Project on Nurse Leadership in LMICs

RESEARCH PROJECT

Table of Contents
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
FINDINGS.......................................................................................................................................5
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

BACKGROUND
The recent research belong to one of the most interesting topic that is several problems in
healthcare system of low and middle-income countries such as lack of leadership capacity that
have lead to poor delivery of services to patients. Number of diseases are increasing at rapid
stage in middle and low income countries and they are unable to delivered qualitative healthcare
facalities due to less availability of staff members or unequal distribution of human resources.
There are several factors that have acts as challenged in implementing effectively healthcare
facalities like social, cultural, political and economical. Lack of leadership capabilities is one of
the biggest reason that have lead to ineffective healthcare system in various countries. Nurse are
integral part of health workforce as most of the people are untrained or unexperienced before
becoming manager or leader. Therefore, it can be intrepretated from identifying various issues
that leadership in nurse in LIMC is important in healthcare system.
Research questions
 What are the different ways in which nurse have contributed in leadership of LIMCs.
 What are several issues faced by nursue in LIMCs.
 How different strategies have contributed nursue to fill leadership roles in healthcare
system in LMICs.
METHODOLOGY
Inclusive criteria
As per guideline of JBI, Population-Concept-Context frameworks criteria will be used in
order to review professional development and nursing leadership. It contained all information
related to the way nursue contributed in leadership in healthcare organisations Skains (2018).
Fiji, wetern pacific regions and solomom island will be focused in context of study related to
LMIC. It also included various factors like scarcity of resources and lack of autonomy in nursing
pratices or factors that are causing poor healthcare system.
Peer- reviewed articles in english language will only be used in order to extract data and
information to conduct research on contribution of nursue in leadership.
Sources of data
Scopus, PubMed and CINAHL are various sources of database that are used for scoping
review. Keywords and abstract present in relevant articles will be used in order to find
additional search term.

Search strategy
Key words
PCC Term Keywords
Participants Nurses Healthcare Professionals
Concept Leadership Competency, Barriers,
Management, Professional
development, Limitations,
Facilitators and others.
Context Middle and Low income
countries.
Third world countries,
Solomon Island, Resource-
limited countries, Western
Pacific Region, LMICs, Papua
Developing countries, Fiji Low
and middle income countries,
New Guinea.
Extraction of results
Microsoft excel sheet will be used to collected various extracted data and information
and include various field such as types of study, key finding, journal articles, conclusion and
limitations.
Presentation of results
Both descriptive numerical and thematical analysis will be used to report results or
outcome of scoping review. The result will be based on the objectives or aims of study that
helps in indetifying various method or ways that have been used by nurses to contribute in
leadership.
Ethical approval
It can be state that ethical approval is not required for complete this research project. It
will be ensured that all information is properly citition and acknowledge or proper reference are
made in order to ensure validity and accuracy of information Murshed and Zhang, (2016).