Leadership: For Nursing, Health and Social Care Students (Essentials) - Softcover

Louise Jones; Clare L. Bennett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908625473 ISBN 13: 9781908625472

Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

“I believe this book will help me to develop my leadership skills and give me a background knowledge on how leadership can be influenced by other factors and the skills needed to be an effective leader within my own career, which I feel every student reading this book would benefit from.”
Review on studentnurseandbeyond.co.uk, April 2019

Leadership: for nursing, health and social care students is an accessible textbook for those seeking to develop their leadership skills.
Offering practical advice underpinned by theoretical perspectives, the book will help you to understand the principles of effective leadership and apply them to your own practice. You will learn:

• What leadership is and what skills and qualities you need to become an effective leader
• About leadership within the cultural context of your work environment
• To use leadership skills to influence outcomes in the workplace
• The importance of the leader as a catalyst for change
• How leaders influence policy development
• How to identify your own strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan to develop your emerging leadership skills

This book will kick-start your leadership journey in health and social care and help you to exhibit and unleash your leadership potential.
Please note that this title is an updated and revised version of Leadership in Health and Social Care: an introduction for emerging leaders, published in 2012.
Essentials is a series of accessible, introductory textbooks for students in nursing, health and social care. New and forthcoming titles in the series:

• Research and Evidence-Based Practice
• Study Skills
• The Care Process
• Communication Skills
• Human Biology

Contents

1 What do we mean by leadership?
2 Theories of leadership
3 The skills and qualities of effective leaders
4 Leadership, values and culture
5 Leadership, power and influence
6 Leadership and improvement
7 Leadership and health and social care policy
8 Leadership development – so where do you go from here?
References

About this title

About the Author

Louise Jones is an executive and leadership coach with many years’ experience in leadership roles within higher education. She has been Dean of Health, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Educational Partnerships) and Strategic Director for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Worcester, and has been Vice Chair of Council at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. At a national level Louise has served as Vice Chair of Council of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and as the elected England Representative on the Executive of the Council of Deans of Health for a number of years.
She is currently the Chair of Governors at Halesowen College, a large General Further Education College, and an Investigating Committee member for the Nursing Midwifery Council. Louise runs her own coaching and mentoring consultancy, Louise Jones Consulting.

Dr Clare L. Bennett is a registered nurse with a background in immunology, HIV infectious diseases and sexual health. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and teaches health promotion, public health, leadership and quality improvement on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for nurses and allied health professionals. Clare is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is a researcher in the field of sexual health promotion, teaches research methods and supervises doctoral students. She is widely published in academic journals and has co-authored three textbooks.

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You may already be a leader, perhaps as captain of a sports team or youth club leader, or you may be a course representative at university or teach a class at your local sports centre. You may have taken on the role of organising a social event at work or leading a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) session as part of staff development. In any of these situations you will have enabled people to move forward together towards the same goal, not because you are forcing them to do so but because they want to. That is leadership.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908625473
• ISBN 13: 9781908625472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160