Nursing leadership training to develop leadership self-efficacy (particularly for younger nurses) and organizational support for pursuing advanced education may encourage nurses to pursue nursing management roles.

Leaders need to ensure that they convey positive images of manager roles and actively identify and support staff nurses with leadership potential.

Historically, Canadian faculties of engineering have excelled at developing the technical competencies oftheir students, but have been less successful at developing their communication, negotiation, and relationship building skills [4]. In this paper we discuss findings from the first phase of a large scale, mixed-methods study of engineering leadership. In particular, we are investigating:(1) how engineers contribute to leadership in engineering intensive organizations, (2) the defining characteristics of the leader-engineer; and (3) how we can use these findings to augment curriculum and instruction in engineering education.

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Registered respiratory therapists (RRTs) aid in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory illness and cardiopulmonary disorders, conditions that are increasingly being managed in settings other than the hospital sector. However, analysis of a longitudinal data set of Ontario' s RRTs (2,903) from 1996 to 2007 demonstrates that the majority of RRTs work full-time in the hospital sector, where retention is high. despite a policy direction encouraging the shift of the site of care from the hospital sector to the community/home, this has had little impact on where RRTs work, raising the question of who is providing respiratory services in the community. Résumé Les thérapeutes respiratoires autorisés (TRA) apportent leur aide dans le diagnostic et le traitement des maladies respiratoires et cardiopulmonaires, des états de santé qui sont de plus en plus traités dans des établissements autres que le secteur hospitalier. Cependant, l' analyse d'un ensemble de données longitudinales sur les TRA de l'Ontario (2903 personnes) de 1996 à 2007 démontre que la majorité des TRA travaillent à temps plein dans le secteur hospitalier, où le taux de conservation du personnel est élevé. malgré une directive politique visant à favoriser le transfert du point de service du secteur hospitalier vers le secteur communautaire ou domiciliaire, il y a eu peu de changement dans le lieu de travail des TRA, ce qui soulève la question à savoir qui offre des services respiratoires en milieu communautaire.