Visionary Leadership in Healthcare: Excellence in Practice, Policy, and Ethics

Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Management and Leadership!"A must-read for all nursing academics teaching leadership practice and all executive healthcare leaders to reach a more reflective, intentional leadership presence."Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAANAssociate Dean and ProfessorGeorge Washington University School of NursingVisionary Leadership in Healthcare equips and empowers leaders to envision, expand, and transform the current healthcare system to achieve a global, life-sustaining perspective. Drawing on decades of experience, the authors embrace an evolved worldview as they call to move away from hierarchical leadership to more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic, and caring leadership styles.This book provides an overview of leadership theories and a framework for applying emergent theories to develop adaptive, relational leaders. It also explores the factors necessary to create and sustain healthy workplace environments for patients and practitioners. Areas for innovation include:• The evolution of leadership theories• Disaster management• Diversity, equity, and inclusion• Organizational culture and collaboration• Policy change• Political and social determinants of healthTABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1: The Evolution of Leadership TheoriesChapter 2: Global Perspectives on the Evolution of Nursing LeadershipChapter 3: Transcending Leadership and Redefining SuccessChapter 4: Developing Effective Leadership Skills and CapacityChapter 5: Nurturing Healthy and Healing Work EnvironmentsChapter 6: Leadership Roles in Promoting a Resilient WorkforceChapter 7: Leadership Roles in Mitigating Organizational TraumaChapter 8: Healthcare Leadership in Planetary and Environmental HealthChapter 9: Quantum Caring Leadership: A New Ontology Into PracticeChapter 10: Caring Science–Informed LeadershipChapter 11: Promoting Exceptional Patient Experience Through Compassionate Connected CareChapter 12: Applying Complexity Science in Promoting Community and Population HealthChapter 13: Assembling a Unifying Force: Interprofessional Collaboration to Improve HealthcareChapter 14: Leadership in Disaster Preparedness and ResponseChapter 15: Nursing Leadership in the Global Health ContextChapter 16: Healthcare Leadership in Promoting the Use of EvidenceChapter 17: Wisdom Leadership: A Developmental JourneyChapter 18: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education and Health SystemsChapter 19: Transforming Health PolicyChapter 20: Leadership in Social and Political Determinants of HealthChapter 21: Creating a Connected World: A Call to Ethics of Face and BelongingABOUT THE AUTHORSHolly Wei, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is a Professor and Assistant Dean for the PhD program at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. Her research focuses on healthcare organizational culture, leadership development, clinician well-being, and patient care quality.Sara Horton-Deutsch, PhD, RN, PMHCNS, FAAN, ANEF, is a Caritas Coach, a Professor, and the Director of the Kaiser Permanente/USF Partnership at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions, where she mentors the next generation of nursing leaders through the lens of Caring Science and values-based leadership. Read more