Full Description
This groundbreaking text focuses on the practical knowledge and skills that both physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) need to be effective health care leaders in a multidisciplinary environment. Written by a recognized expert in physician assistant leadership, this engaging text helps PA and NP professionals—increasingly called upon to lead in a variety of clinical and administrative environments—to navigate the unique challenges they encounter.
With an emphasis on concrete application of leadership principles, this text highlights interprofessional communication and the skills associated with becoming an effective leader in a variety of health care settings. Thought-provoking case studies provide real-world application of concepts throughout the text. Useful exercises throughout the chapters and appendices bring further clarity to the theoretical topics examined in the book.
Key Features:
Focuses on leadership for NPs and PAs in team-based health care—the only text to do so
Emphasizes interprofessional, multidisciplinary interactions, often at the level of direct patient care
Addresses important issues including power and influence, leadership traits and behaviors, followership, change strategies, burnout, ethical considerations, and more
Provides chapter-opening questions to guide the learner in discovering effective principles of leadership
Includes chapter summaries and leadership exercises to provide context to the concepts discussed, as well as useful online worksheets
Applies real-world scenarios to key leadership concepts through thought-provoking case studies
Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword David Anthony (Tony) Forrester, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Preface
PART ONE: CLINICAL LEADERSHIP TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS
1. Why Clinical Leadership?
2. Power and Influence
3. Clinical Leadership Traits
4. Clinical Leadership Behaviors
5. Followership
6. Lessons From Bad Leaders and Followers
PART TWO: ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR PAs AND NPs
7. Financial Principles in Clinical Leadership
8. Change Strategies in Health Care
PART THREE: THE HUMAN ASPECTS OF CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
9. Ethics and the Culturally Informed Clinical Leader
10. Qualities of Spiritual Leadership in a Clinical Setting
11. Leader Strategies for Teaching Others
12. Leading Leaders in a Clinical Setting
13. Clinical Leader Resiliency and Burnout
PART FOUR: LOOKING AHEAD
14. Leading Into the Future
APPENDICES
A. Leader Interview Activity
B. Movie Report on Leadership
C. Historical Leader Characterizationvi
D. Book Report on Leadership
E. Current Leader Characterization
F. Leading by Teaching Student Presentation
G. Self as Leader Characterization
H. Servant Leadership Questionnaire
I. Adaptive Leadership Questionnaire
Index
