Effective Healthcare Leadership integrates theory and practice to distil the reality of healthcare leadership today. It addresses the context and explores strategies for leadership and examines the leadership skills required to implement and sustain developments in healthcare. Section one examines the contemporary context and challenges of healthcare leadership. Section two offers opportunities through the CLINLAP/LEADLAP model to see how modern management ideas, tools and techniques are used effectively in leadership development. Section three examines the role of leadership in implementing change and improving practice in different contexts of care. The final section explores future challenges in leadership.
About the Author
Dr Melanie Jasper is Principal Lecturer at the Institute of Medicine, Health and Social Care, University of Portsmouth and also the Editor of the Journal of Nursing Management. Melanie Jasper is Course Leader for MSc Nursing Studies, MA Advanced Professional Practice in Healthcare and the Professional Doctorate in Nursing at the University of Portsmouth.
Dr Mansour Jumaa is Principal Lecturer of Health Care and Nursing Management at the School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, and is also Director of the Sussex Research and Development Centre for Work Based Learning (CWBL).
Features
* Presents key leadership concepts and frameworks * Demonstrates practical application of management theories, tools and techniques * Critiques strategies for leadership in healthcare * Examines leadership initiatives including healthcare governance, evidence based practice, practice development, emotional intelligence and group clinical supervision * Explores leadership in different contexts of care * Focuses on outcomes of different leadership strategies * Presents an evidence-based approach for implementing effective change
