Delores Springs

• Doctorate of Strategic Leadership and Strategic Foresight
• Professor (Associate) at University of Phoenix

U.S. Organizations that neglect to support and provide resources for employees with invisible disabilities and neurodiversity exacerbate health disparities by perpetuating systemic barriers to access and accommodation. Invisible disabilities are physical, mental, or neurological conditions that are not immediately apparent to others but can signifi...

Developing women in hospital, academic medical center, and healthcare management The healthcare industry, a robust employment sector for women, employed 16.4 million women in 2021, representing 77.6 percent of its total workforce. However, the representation of women in leadership roles remains disproportionately low (Prudêncio, Priscila et al., 2...

This article explores how smart leadership contributes to developing inclusive, equitable, and sustainable smart cities amidst the backdrop of rapid urbanization and technological advancement. Smart leadership, as articulated in this article, embodies a holistic and forward-looking approach that prioritizes the well-being and inclusion of residents...

The issue of firearm-related injuries, deaths and crime in the United States is of particular relevance. Every year, about 32,000 lives are lost as a result of firearm-related incidents, including self-inflicted injuries. Other 74,000 people suffer non-fatal gunshot wounds. Addressing this multi-faceted problem is possible through a comprehensive a...

The United States is facing a growing crisis in the form of increasing medical care costs for both the insured and uninsured. One innovative strategy to address increasing costs is the use of medical tourism. Medical tourism is defined by the OECD as “the practice of travelling to another country to obtain medical treatment.” It has become an incre...

The pandemic exacerbated pre-existing mental health issues. These people are more likely to develop anxiety, sadness, and PTSD. The pandemic may also harm at-risk mental health patients. Pandemic-related financial difficulty increases the risk of mental health issues like sadness and anxiety. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated anxiety, depressio...

The study focuses on ethical, cultural, and research into the public health sector. The content analysis of research identifies disproportionate knowledge of implications affecting the misappropriated, disenfranchised, and institutionalized minority segments of the general population affected by COVID-19 cases. Historic mistreatment of minority ind...

An increasing number of reports of sexual harassment in the workplace and medical education is challenging the current state of medical education and healthcare. The trauma and long-term consequences of sexual harassment are well documented, yet the issue of sexual harassment has been overlooked mainly in healthcare, leading to a culture of silence...

A study of healthcare organizations found that 87% reported instances of discrimination, the highest industry rate. Illegal workplace discrimination can have many impacts, from reduced employee morale to higher recruitment and litigation costs. Healthcare organizations must address this issue because it can significantly impact their ability to pro...

In the rapidly advancing landscape of biotechnology, laboratories, and healthcare research, the criticality of robust cybersecurity risk management techniques cannot be overstated. As these industries increasingly rely on interconnected technologies and digitized data for innovation and patient care, they become attractive targets for malicious cyb...

Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is a pervasive business legal issue that harms the health and well-being of women who experience it. It refers to the adverse treatment of employees, applicants, and independent contractors based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including lactation. This type of illegal discriminatio...

Medical labs, hospitals, doctor's offices, and medical devices face significant cyber risks. The insecurity of medical devices, including imaging hardware, threatens patient safety. Health organizations are rich with valuable data as well as weak with information security expertise, protocols, and infrastructure. It is critical for more health orga...

Human resource experts suggest unveiling future trends should invite practitioners to focus on evolving human resource management (HRM) roles, target deficiencies, and present solutions leveraging abilities to converge, employees, leaders, and stakeholders committed to advance opportunities for professional development. This chapter provides a deta...

Ethics is critical in emergency response to public health and patient care in ways that create a variety of challenging dilemmas and decisions. Understanding ethical codes around medical care, especially during the emergence of COVID 19, has made leadership's role in perpetuating ethical organizational cultures in healthcare vital. Ethical leadersh...

Low health literacy is a public health scourge. Health information and health literacy around COVID-19 is a miscalculated public health conundrum. Zarocostas referred to the COVID-19 not as a pandemic, but an info-demic because of the need for patients to be more health literate when they are being bombarded by inaccurate or misleading information...

In 2016, millennials surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living generation in the United States. As more millennials have entered the nursing workforce, healthcare leaders have confronted a growing challenge of nursing shortages and high turnover rates for young nurses. Although nurses of all ages were pleased with their career choices, differenc...

In March of 2020, the United States activated nationwide pandemic response protocols due to the swift spread of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019, also known as COVID-19. Amidst the domestic response, urgency surrounded the need to build collective awareness of the signs, symptoms, and preventive measures o...

The clinical training of healthcare professionals and the delivery of safe healthcare is reliant on a vigorous organizational safety culture, one where the workplace and medical training environment is free of

The location where workplace sexual harassment occurs points to the importance of workplace structures and practices for the precipitation of sexual harassment. In fact, some of the current theoretical explanations of sexual harassment focus primarily on organizational features that may facilitate sexual harassment, such as hierarchies and organiza...

A 2016 article in the Nation outlined that in the United States the average Black family would need 228 years to build comparable wealth to the average white family. Today, achieving the dream of higher education has posed many threats to the Hispanic and African American communities. In order to achieve the dream, many minority students receive st...

Many universities require end of course evaluations for all courses taught as tool for academic accreditation purposes. The reality is that often many academic departments either do not do anything or have no idea what to do when evaluations continue to be poor. As a result, students have fought back against this process to create their own on-line...

This study will explore an innovative approach to cybersecurity workforce development in low income, minority, and Native American reservation communities in away that could address low living wages and high unemployment while meeting cyber workforce demands. In the efforts to build a robust talent pipel...

US government organizations struggle to broaden an entire of government approach to recruit and keep younger cybersecurity talent at a time when national security and intelligence organizations and emergency response agencies are extremely concerned that threats to federal structures and networks from cyber-attacks have never been higher for the st...

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) plays a significant role in developing managers in a plethora of global organizations. In most circles, it is considered a degree to develop corporate managers. With the leadership failures of organizations like pharmaceutical price collusion and price increase of 539% of Perrigo Pharmaceuticals, the fake...

Many universities require end of course evaluations for all courses taught as tool for academic accreditation purposes. The reality is that often many academic departments either do not do anything or have no idea what to do when evaluations continue to be poor. As a result, students have fought back against this process to create their own on-line...

The need for integrity and reliability in the supply chain and logistics management operations has a well-established array of theoretical frameworks that guide organizations and managers in the field. However, what is missing is a comprehensive, established framework for logistics and supply chain cybersecurity. The emerging area of cyber-supply c...

Medical labs, hospitals, doctor's offices, and medical devices face significant cyber risks. The insecurity of medical devices, including imaging hardware, threatens patient safety. Health organizations are rich with valuable data as well as weak with information security expertise, protocols, and infrastructure. It is critical for more health orga...

Significant labor shortages in fields like information technology and information security has created a critical need to recruit, hire, develop, and retain more woman. The challenge remains how to make these technical organizations more welcoming and inclusive for women. Sexual harassment continues to be a significant problem in all workplaces. Re...