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This much-loved textbook responds to the ever-growing importance of leadership to a healthcare professional¿s role. It introduces all of the key theories and topics, applying them to the healthcare context through cases and examples.
List of contents
Part I: The Individual
Chapter 1: The Nature of Leadership
Chapter 2: What Makes a Leader?
Chapter 3: Culture, Diversity and Values
Chapter 4: Theories of Leadership
Part II: The Team
Chapter 5: Team Life
Chapter 6: Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Working
Chapter 7: Communication and Leadership
Chapter 8: Problem Solving
Chapter 9: Ethical, Legal and Professional Aspects in Leadership
Chapter 10: Managing Conflict
Chapter 11: Emotional, Social and Practical Intelligence
Part III: The Organisation
Chapter 12: Theory of Organisational Life
Chapter 13: Quality
Chapter 14: Leadership for Change
About the author
Jill Barr is a lecturer at Coventry University, teaching student nurses and MBA/MSc students in health care. She has worked as a Principal Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and also at De Montford University, with a number of awards from pre-registration nursing to Community Specialist Nursing programmes, Non-Medical Prescribing, Physician Assistant/Associate, Advanced Practitioner and Public Health Masters. Her own professional career has been exciting, varied and totally integrated with personal development, including writing with Lesley Dowding for over twenty years. Jill qualified as a nurse, midwife and health visitor, working in all these areas in practice as well as gaining her nurse licence in Michigan, USA. With a breadth of practice experiences in acute, community and industry, the patients, women, families and communities that have been served have been an important tapestry in her personal development.
