Transformational Leadership in Nursing: From Expert Clinician to Influential Leader - Softcover

Elaine Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826105289 ISBN 13: 9780826105288

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

An invaluable instructional guide for graduate students who are developing the skills needed to fulfill the emerging role of clinical leadership within the complex healthcare environment. It provides critical information and practical tools for leadership that can transform a healthcare practice.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Leadership and Management!

The ultimate goal for Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) leaders is to develop skills that will support their ability to lead effectively through complex challenges-such as working within the constraints of tight budgets, initiating health care policy change to eliminate health disparities, and improving health care outcomes at all levels of care.

This text is an invaluable instructional guide for nursing graduate students who are developing the skills needed to fulfill this new and emerging role of clinical leadership. With this book, nurses can develop leadership skills that will ultimately transform health care practice by incorporating innovative professional models of care. It provides critical information and practical tools to enhance leadership, drawing from the works of experts in business and health care leadership. This book is an important resource for DNP students, nurse practitioners, and current clinical leaders dealing with the challenges of health care for the next generation. Key topics:

Cultivating the characteristics of a transformational leader: charisma, innovation, inspiration, intellect, and more Developing the role of the DNP within complex organizational systems Incorporating new care delivery, practice, and management models through leadership Navigating power, politics, and policy: building the team, understanding economics and finance, and more "

About the Author:

<p><b>Elaine Sorensen Marshall, PhD, RN,</b> is currently professor and Bulloch Healthcare Foundation Endowed Chair at the School of Nursing at Georgia Southern University. She served as dean of the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University and member of a Board of Trustees of Intermountain Healthcare in Utah. She has served in national elected and appointed leadership positions for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN), and the Western Institute of Nursing. She has published two books and more than 50 professional and public articles and book chapters. Her work has been noted by the New Professional Book Award from the National Council on Family Relations, the Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing, and the Jo Eleanor Elliott Leadership Award from the Western Institute of Nursing.</p>

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826105289
• ISBN 13: 9780826105288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360