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Now in its Third Edition, this best-selling textbook continues to support you on your journey from being an emerging registered healthcare professional through to becoming a competent care manager. Action points, case studies and strong practice guidelines enable you to understand how leadership and management theory applies to the care you deliver in a wide range of care settings.

Fully updated throughout, the new edition includes:

• More case studies and examples from a wide range of care settings and countries.
• New key topics such as dimensions of leadership, NHS Change Model, transition to registered practitioner and revalidation requirements, emotional intelligence and resilience.
• A companion website with access to further case studies, journal articles and web links.

This book is essential for nursing, health and social care students taking modules on leadership, management and transition to practice in their final year, as well as for newly qualified professionals or those seeking to refresh their skills.

Neil Gopee is currently a part-time lecturer in Health and Care at Coventry University, having previously worked as full-time senior lecturer at the same university for thirty years, and also as Associate Lecturer for the Open University. He has also worked as external examiner at various Higher Education Institutions, which has given Neil wide-ranging insights into his two cognate areas: (1) management and leadership in care settings,  and (2) learning, teaching and assessment, at both under- and post-graduate levels.

Having qualified in Adult Nursing, as well as in Mental Health Nursing, Neil’s nursing career has encompassed extensive clinical experiences spanning critical care to primary healthcare. Studying for his doctorate provided Neil with further in-depth insights into his subject areas, as did his external examiner duties at several HEIs and as reviewer for Nursing journals. His publications include various peer-reviewed articles, and two other textbooks: Supervision of Learning and Assessment in Healthcare and Practice Teaching in Healthcare.

Jo Galloway has worked in health and care for nearly forty years. She qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1988 and has worked in a number of clinical specialties, including orthopaedics, intensive care, neurosciences, rehabilitation and the care of older people, Her career has spanned acute care, community care, practice development, higher education and commissioning. She has held management and leadership positions at junior, middle, senior and executive levels. in the NHS. She has worked at local and regional levels in the NHS and has also contributed to work streams at national level.

Jo spent ten years of her career working as a Clinical Commissioning Group Chief Nursing Officer where her portfolios included leadership, quality and patient safety, safeguarding and continuing healthcare. Some of her previous roles have included deputy director of nursing, nurse consultant, lecturer practitioner , senior and principal lecturer. Jo′s areas of clinical expertise and publication include rehabilitation, care of older people and leadership. In 2012, Jo was awarded a leadership scholarship by the Florence Nightingale Foundation and Burdette Trust for Nursing. Jo has also previously worked in and held honorary positions in the higher education sector.