Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care 5th Edition

Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition provides students with a solid overview and understanding of leadership in today’s complex healthcare delivery system. The Fifth Edition discusses leadership within the context of a new understanding of complex adaptive systems and complex responsive processes. Rather than focus on the mechanics of operations and function, this text emphasizes the characteristics and role of the complex leader through both describing the context of complexity and the application of the role as a leader of these complex systems.

Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition is unique in that it addresses the postindustrial, complex and highly mobile organizational systems and emphasizes the characteristics, elements, and role of leaders in guiding individuals and teams through effectively navigating work in these essentially new models. In addition, the text integrates the essential requirements for Quality Matters certification of online courses that are used as benchmarks in many colleges and universities.

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Dr. Tim Porter-O’Grady has been a nurse for 52 years and is currently a Clinical Professor at Emory University, School of Nursing. He is an international health consultant nationally/internationally recognized as an expert/futurist in clinical health systems, nursing leadership, nursing professional governance, and health systems innovation. Tim is an advanced practice nurse, board certified in geriatrics and wound specialties and holds two earned doctorates, one in learning behavior and another in complex systems leadership. He has been Clinical Professor, Leadership Scholar at The Ohio State University, College of Nursing and Professor and Innovations Scholar at Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and is currently a Clinical Professor at Emory University, School of Nursing. Dr. Porter-O’Grady has consulted with over 300 clinical systems world-wide and has lectured at over 800 settings globally. He has authored/co-authored 31 books and over 250 journal publications and is a 10-time winner of the AJ N “Book of the Year Award”. 'Tim has received numerous awards including the American Organization of Nurse Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award, American Nurses Association Luther Christman Health Leadership Award, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Healthcare Pioneer Award, the American Academy of Nursing, President’s Award, and is a 2020 inductee into the ANA Nursing Hall of Fame and a 2022 inaugural inductee into the Georgia Nurses Hall of Fame.'

Kathy Malloch is a recognized expert in leadership and the development of effective evidence-based processes and systems for patient care. Her uncanny focus on accountability and results is the hallmark of her practice. Her expertise has been useful to many organizations across the country.A nationally known writer and speaker, Dr. Malloch has been a registered nurse for over 40 years. Kathy has published extensively in proctored health journals. She is a frequent presenter and author on leadership topics, healthcare innovation, professional nursing practice, and patient classification systems.Dr. Malloch served as the first program director for the Arizona State University, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Master’s in Healthcare Innovation program. This innovative, multidisciplinary program is the first of its kind in the country. She continues to teach in the leadership of innovation track in the nursing doctoral program at Arizona State University. Most recently, Kathy and Tim Porter-O’Grady created the Executive DNP Program at OSU-College of Nursing, Columbus, OH.Kathy is the designer of the Expert Nurse Estimation Patient Classification System (ENEPCS), an innovative model to integrate the role of the professional nurse in daily nurse-patient staffing to achieve the best outcomes. In 2008, ENEPCS was purchased by API Healthcare, a GE Company.Dr. Malloch is a graduate of Wayne State University, College of Nursing, received an MBA from Oakland University and a PhD in nursing from the University of Colorado. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing.Currently Dr. Malloch also serves as: Past-President of the Arizona State Board of Nursing Professor of Practice, Arizona State University, College of Nursing and Health Innovation Clinical Professor, Ohio State University, College of Nursing Senior Consultant for Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates