Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing
Management and Leadership!
This book informs healthcare leaders to implement leadership theories at
the micro and macro systems level. At a micro level, it explains how
leaders build and maintain a healthy work environment at the individual
or team levels. At the macro level, the book discusses leadership's role
in facilitating change at the organizational, health system, national,
global, and even planetary levels. It also expands leadership knowledge
on how leaders can influence and transform practice, including policy
change, disaster management, political and social determinants of
health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and the Ethics of Belonging. Each
chapter has a section to introduce how to integrate theories into
practice.
This book is timely, especially during this challenging time of
pandemic. The chapters address ways to nurture a healthy work
environment, mitigate organizational trauma, foster resilience, improve
interprofessional collaboration, and promote exceptional patient
experiences. The book gathers great minds in healthcare to make it
unique from others. Each chapter uses a collective voice to shape the
future of healthcare. The authors provide practical strategies for
healthcare leaders to face the challenges regarding innovation,
complexity, systems, and partnership in healthcare.
The book comprises five parts, which support leadership development in
clinical practice or academic settings. With an emphasis on
collaboration and partnerships, it moves away from hierarchical forms of
leadership to more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic, and
caring styles. Following is a brief introduction of the five parts.
Part 1 presents leadership theories in organizations. There are four
chapters in this part.
Part 2 addresses healthy work environments. The four chapters in this
part support readers in establishing and promoting organizational
culture and environments.
Part 3 introduces and explains ways to apply novice leadership theories
to practice.
Part 4 is about collaboration, leading change, and innovation.
Part 5 is about envisioning the future of healthcare leadership.
Finally, this book guides readers to explore leadership possibilities
and prospects from different standpoints. Our interpretation of
leadership continues to grow. Through this leadership book, we hope
readers create a vision beyond our current systems toward a global,
life-sustaining perspective, inspired and moved to actions that promote
the transformation and revolution of healthcare by leading to
sustainable health and humanity.
