Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career: 50 Lessons that Drive Success (ACHE Management)

This practical guide introduces nurses to what it takes to succeed at leadership and how to build an impactful, rewarding career. The most effective nurse leaders know that authenticity and truthfulness pave the way to success. They have learned to really pay attention, to truly be consummate professionals, and to wholly be the very best version of themselves that they can be.

In 50 succinct lessons, Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career outlines the traits, habits, and skills that nurse leaders must master for maximum personal and career success. Drawing on more than eight decades of combined experience in nursing and healthcare, the authors offer an insider’s guide to what a nurse needs to cultivate to be a successful leader. Nurses at all levels of their careers will learn what it takes to lead and how to develop personally and professionally.

Taking a three-pronged approach—Manage Yourself, Manage Your Job, and Boost Your Career—the 50 lessons in this book offer evidence-based advice that is both practical and professional. Exercises for self-exploration and resources for further learning accompany the lessons. Let this book guide you toward, onto, and along your management or leadership career path.

Kenneth R. White, PhD, AGACNP, ACHPN, FACHE, FAAN, is the University of Virginia Medical Center-endowed professor of nursing and associate dean for strategic partnerships and innovation in the School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. He holds additional faculty appointments in the McIntire School of Commerce, the Darden School of Business and the UVA School of Medicine. Dr. White has more than 40 years’ experience in healthcare organizations working in clinical, administrative, governance and consulting capacities. He is also a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner with specialty board certification in palliative care. Dr. White is ACHE’s 2018 Gold Medal Award winner.