Annotated Bibliography: Leadership, Education, and Healthcare Studies

This annotated bibliography presents summaries of two research studies relevant to healthcare leadership and nursing education. The first study by Reid et al. (2017) investigates the impact of integrating Evidence Based Practice (EBP) into the undergraduate nursing curriculum, utilizing a pre-test and post-test design to assess changes in students' beliefs, attitudes, and implementation of EBP. The study highlights the positive effects of educational support on EBP understanding and its importance for patient care. The second study, by Dauvrin and Lorant (2015), employs a social network analysis to examine the influence of leaders on healthcare professionals' cultural competence. The research, conducted in Belgium, reveals a significant link between leaders' cultural competence and that of their staff, particularly in mediation and paradigm domains. The study emphasizes the importance of both leadership and social relationships in enhancing cultural competence within healthcare settings.

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Reid, J., Briggs, J., Carlisle, S., Scott, D., & Lewis, C. (2017). Enhancing utility and
understanding of evidence based practice through undergraduate nurse education. BMC
nursing, 16(1), 58.
The study by Reid et al. (2017) was conducted with the aim to implement a pre-test and a
post-test design for evaluating Evidence Based Practice at the beginning and subsequently after
the completion of 1 year undergraduate level in a Nursing and Midwifery school in an University
in UK. Thus, this pilot study was conducted with the purpose to determine belies and attitudes,
knowledge and expertise and implementation of Evidence Based Practice among the
undergraduate students during the start of their course or degree program and before they have
undertaken training on Evidence Based Practice. The study also aimed at ascertaining the
attitude, beliefs, knowledge and application of Evidence Based Practice after the successful
completion of their first year of the degree program that incorporated training for Evidence
Based Practice. This pilot study was conducted using quantitative pre-test and post-test design.
Anonymised data was collected from first year undergraduate student nurses in at two time
points in September 2014 intake, n- 311. Time 1- Pre-module in September 2014 and Time 2-
Post-module in August 2015. These data were collected using Survey Monkey. The Study has
demonstrated that initiatives taken in this regards in terms of providing educational support have
found to have positive impact on the beliefs, attitudes and implementation of Evidence Based
Practice. The study has also found statistically substantial changes (p<0.05) in both the Beliefs
scale for Evidence Based Practice (7/16 categories) and also in the implementation scale for
Evidence Based Practice (13/18 categories). Thus, the study concluded that the importance of
integrating Evidence Based Practice in the education curriculum of the undergraduate nurses

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must be acknowledged since it has a positive impact on patients care and their health outcome
(Reid et al., 2017).
Dauvrin, M., & Lorant, V. (2015). Leadership and cultural competence of healthcare
professionals: a social network analysis. Nursing research, 64(3), 200.
The cross-sectional study by Dauvrin and Lorant (2015) was conducted with the aim to
determine leader’s influence on healthcare professional’s cultural competence. They survey was
conducted between the year 2010-2012 for obtaining data for a social network analysis involving
19 inpatient services and 5 primary care services in Belgium. Being a part of collective studies in
lieu with the research study, the authors have used a quantitative social network analysis related
to competencies in Health and Ethnicity with the aim to evaluate and determine how cultural
competence is perceived by the healthcare professional in Belgium. The authors have used
questionnaire related to health and Ethnicity competences. In total, 507 healthcare professionals
along with 302 nurse have recognized the relationships with other health care officials in a social
context working in the settings. For identifying leaders within every healthcare settings and
services, highest in-degree centrality was used. For linking leader’s cultural competence with
that of the healthcare workers, multiple regression with the Huber Sandwich estimator was used.
The study has found that healthcare staffs cultural competence are greatly linked with cultural
competence of the leaders and this connection has been found to be significant in relation to two
explicit domains of cultural competence including mediation and paradigm. Thus, the study
concluded that knowledge pertaining to cultural competence among the healthcare professionals
is acquired partly though the role of leadership. Thus, both leadership and social relationships

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impact healthcare services and must be taken into account while implementing strategies related
to cultural competence (Dauvrin & Lorant, 2015).

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References
Dauvrin, M., & Lorant, V. (2015). Leadership and cultural competence of healthcare
professionals: a social network analysis. Nursing research, 64(3), 200.
Reid, J., Briggs, J., Carlisle, S., Scott, D., & Lewis, C. (2017). Enhancing utility and
understanding of evidence based practice through undergraduate nurse education. BMC
nursing, 16(1), 58.