The New Leadership Challenge: Creating the Future of Nursing

What is leadership?

• How do you develop your leadership abilities?
• How is leadership different from management?
• How does leadership contribute to professional and personal success, improve patient care, and affect the future of nursing and health care?

 
An easy-to-read, interactive approach helps you to identify the characteristics of leaders and followers and illustrates not only how, but also when to use the qualities associated with each to achieve professional and personal success.
 
See what students and practitioners are saying about previous editions…
Five Stars!The future of leadership for nursing.“Breathtaking! What Nursing Leadership should aspire to be. Helpful for anyone venturing into a leadership role. Insightful concepts and practical suggestions for transformational leadership.”—Online Reviewer
 
Five Stars!Excellent leadership text for nurses“After so much of the same content in nursing school that dryly proclaims the importance of leadership and contributing to the profession, I frequently found my eyes widening while reading this book. Somehow, the authors consistently, boldly, and beautifully call for and describe the transformative leadership that is so needed in nursing today. … I just kept thinking, ‘Wow, I've never seen it said like that (in nursing). That's awesome!’ This book is relevant, well-written, and full of paradigm-shifting inspirational material.”—Tristen W., Online Reviewer
 

• New, Updated & Revised! Coverage of new directions and topics in the field, including the globalization of health care, the aging population, healthcare delivery systems, COVID-19, and the stress, burnout, and shortages in nursing
• New! Next Gen NCLEX® and how the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model relates to nursing leadership and decision making
• Expanded & Updated! Focus on the future and how to thrive and to lead in the evolving organizations of today and tomorrow
• Updated! National Academy of Medicine’s 2020–2030 recommendations for how nurses can lead in improving health care and AACN Essentials content
• Updated & Revised! Unfolding “Case Studies” with “Reflective Question”
• Discusses communication skills, dealing with difficult people as a leader, improving assertiveness, and new challenges, including generation diversity and social media.
• Balances theory with real-world case studies from clinical practice and education and offers critical-thinking exercises to develop leadership potential and to solve problems.

 

Professor, Hunt School of Nursing, Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC