Full Description
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?Whatever your role, practice or educational environment, here are the tools and techniques you can use to realize your leadership potential, advance your career, and contribute to the future of nursing. This 2009 AJN Book of the Year Winner, by two noted educators in the field of leadership development, guides you through the process. An easy-to-read, interactive approach helps you 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.
Contents
1. The Phenomenon of LeadershipLeadership Theories2. The Nature of Leadership: Distinguishing Leadership From Management3. Disequilibrium and Chaos: Challenging, Invigorating, and Growth Producing4. The World and New Leadership: Changing Our Thinking About Leadership5. Followership and Empowerment6. Leadership as an Integral Component of Each Nurse's Professional Role7. Vision and Creativity8. Gender Perspectives in Leadership9. Shaping a Preferred Future for Nursing10. Developing as a Leader Throughout One's Career11. Leadership, Excellence, and Creating the Future of NursingAnnotated Bibliography
