LEAD Outcome Research

In Leaders Uniting Across Borders: “Friendshoring”, Prestia and Udod reflect on how building stronger partnerships and sharing knowledge internationally can help support nurses during periods of change.

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Calling Out the Leadership B.S.: What the Evidence Actually Shows will explore who should lead, what counts as credible evidence, why leadership training programs often fail, and how diverse teams perform.

📅 February 26 | 12–1 p.m. ET
Free and open to the public

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Meet Our Team: Janelle Cave

Janelle is a Registered Nurse with the Saskatchewan Health Authority, with experience in acute care pediatrics and frontline public health.

Her research interests focus on nursing leadership, management, and the organizational supports that help health leaders succeed.

Meet Our Team: Vera Anokyewa Amponsah

Vera is a Registered Nurse and a Research Assistant. She contributes to qualitative research through transcript checks, coding, literature reviews, and writing, helping ensure real experiences are reflected in research.

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Meet Our Team: Komal Krishna Tiwari
Komal is a health services researcher with a strong academic foundation in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, specializing in musculoskeletal disorders and sports medicine. She holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in these fields.

Hiring a Research Coordinator for the REACHE Lab (21 hrs/week) and LEAD Lab (8 hrs/week)!

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We are excited to share that our Principal Investigator, Dr. Sonia Udod, was recently featured in the CBC news!

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We proudly hosted Manitoba's first Provincial Nurse Retention Workshop!

This event united leaders including Chief Nursing Officer Leigh Chapman, Dr. Jaason Geerts, from the Canadian College of Health Leaders, and Carla Compton, the Premier’s Advisor on Nursing Culture & Safety.
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The LEAD Lab was represented at the 2025 ARNM Conference by Dr. Sonia Udod and Komal Tiwari. This research explores nurses’ experiences during COVID-19 to strengthen nurses’ quality of worklife, mental health and ultimately improve retention.

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We are excited to welcome nurse and healthcare leaders, educators, policy makers, researchers from across Manitoba for the first provincial Nurse Retention Workshop next month!

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CBC Manitoba: Audit’s advice for Manitoba health-care agencies surprising, ‘ridiculous,’ says health finance prof Nursing positions tend to get cut after they're flagged as taking up a lot of resources, says Dr. Sonia Udod, an associate professor at the University of Manitoba's college of nursing. The audits show

The audits show that health authorities failed to predict spending on private agency nurses, Dr. Sonia Udod said.

A potential cut to nursing positions would be a “huge problem,” as the university recently boosted the number of seats in its nursing program by 50 per cent.

Research Highlight 💡

Today, we are highlighting this study on positive strategies with nurses to improve nurses’ quality of worklife, and ultimately their mental health, well-being and retention.
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