Research | Implementation | Impact

Nursing Leadership

Women in nursing face a unique set of barriers in their progression into healthcare leadership positions due in part to the profession’s feminine bias. We are working with our partners to uncover these barriers and co-design evidence based-interventions to address them.

Key publications

2025 | Systemic and organizational barriers and facilitators to the advancement of ethnic minority women nurses in healthcare leadership: A meta-synthesis | Int Jn Nursing Studies

2024 | Breaking barriers: Advancing women nurses in healthcare leadership, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, Jul-Sep 2024, p. 28-29

2024 | Challenges and successful approaches towards promoting women nurses into healthcare leadership, through the lens of implementation science | Jn Adv Nurs

2023 | Barriers to advancing women nurses in healthcare leadership: a systematic review and meta-synthesis | Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine

2023 | Organisational strategies for women nurses to advance in healthcare leadership: a systematic review | J Nursing Management

Infographics

Infographic | Barriers to advancing women nurses to leadership

Infographic | Organisational strategies to advance women nurses in leadership