A Leadership Toolkit for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals

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Dr Alison H. James

Alison a Doctor of Advanced Healthcare Practice and is currently Reader in Healthcare Leadership at Cardiff University, UK and a Senior Fellow of the HEA. She is a Registered Nurse with a background in neurosciences, critical care, osteoporosis and clinical research. Alison has taught across undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare programmes for over 20 years and has published and worked on leadership development projects internationally and is an active qualitative researcher. Alison's main interests are in research focused on leadership development and education in the healthcare workforce and how this impacts delivery and quality of patient care, with a focus on values-based leadership theory and models, and how this influences cultures within healthcare environments.

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This practical guide provides essential knowledge and tools for nursing and healthcare students and practitioners to develop their leadership skills, from the very beginning of their practice and throughout their careers.

It is ideal for students and practitioners at all levels in nursing and healthcare interested in self-development.

Contenu

Part 1, 1. An introduction to leadershid, 2. Leading during challenging times- lessons to take forward, 3. Power, politics and social justice- developing your voice and being heard, 4. Personal leadership across the career- developing your leadership mastery, 5. Being an emotionally and socially intelligent professional, 6. Adapting to change, 7. Leadership and Wellbeing: An Achievable Challenge or Impossible Dream?, Part 2, Introduction to Part 2, 8. Becoming a self-aware professional - developing emotional and social intelligence, 9. Exploring personal values for leadership, 10. Creative methods for leadership development, 11. Action learning for leadership and problem solving