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Appreciative leadership: building customer-driven partnerships.

Gwen Sherwood1

  • 1University of North Carolina at Chapter Hill School of Nursing, 27517, USA. gwen.sherwood@unc.edu

The Journal of Nursing Administration
|December 14, 2006
PubMed
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Effective partnerships in healthcare require strong communication and mutual goals. Appreciative inquiry, a method valuing participant input, can foster essential academic and practice collaborations.

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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Educational Partnerships

Background:

  • Partnerships are crucial for achieving mutual goals, with effectiveness hinging on participant communication.
  • Traditional industrial models in healthcare are being replaced by a focus on interdependent relationships.
  • Academic and practice settings require strong collaborations for innovation and progress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the role of appreciative inquiry in initiating business planning for academic-practice partnerships.
  • To highlight the complex, symbiotic needs of interprofessional collaborations in healthcare.
  • To move beyond traditional models by focusing on the value of educational and practice integration.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing appreciative inquiry to facilitate change and strategic planning.

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  • Analyzing existing exemplars of successful academic-practice partnerships.
  • Focusing on communication and shared values as foundational elements.

    • Main Results:

    • Appreciative inquiry effectively initiates change by leveraging participant strengths and values.
    • Successful partnerships demonstrate symbiotic and interdependent relationships between education and practice.
    • Exemplars showcase a shift from industrial to collaborative healthcare models.

    Conclusions:

    • Strong communication and shared valuing are key to effective healthcare partnerships.
    • Appreciative inquiry offers a viable method for developing essential academic-practice collaborations.
    • The future of healthcare relies on integrated, interdependent educational and practice partnerships.