Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Sixth Edition focuses on the issue of leadership within the shifting landscape of health care. With clarity and depth of detail, the text features theories about contemporary leadership within today’s increasingly complex and diverse healthcare delivery system. It works from a model of complexity leadership, in which leadership is not limited to those with certain titles but an attribute that every healthcare worker can develop for success in fast-moving, information-overloaded organizations. The Sixth Edition focuses on supporting high levels of interdisciplinary teamwork as a key leadership strategy to further advance the skills necessary to lead complex, cross-departmental teams. The unique hallmark of this text is its focus on the postindustrial, complex and highly mobile modern healthcare system. The authors emphasize the importance of the characteristics, elements, and role of leaders in guiding individuals and teams in these new models. Key Features Explores both the value and role of social media in leadership and how to leverage this platform for awareness and communication Leadership succession planning Addresses the generational considerations leaders encounter in the modern healthcare work environment Integrates requirements for Quality Matters certification for online courses Navigate 2 Premier Access

Appreciative Leadership: Building Sustainable Partnerships for Health explores how newly trained graduates and experienced leaders can leverage an intersdisciplinary approach focused on the strength of their teams to transform healthcare in today’s complex environment. The text emphasizes how leaders can employ an actionable plan to successfully lead and positively impact health outcomes. The authors convey their approach using the appreciative model—an innovative approach which explores specific appreciative behaviors and what they look like in a complex health care system. The fundamental goal of appreciative leadership is to promote the positive performances of individuals and build on their strengths. In turn, this enables leadership the ability to focus on the alignment of strengths across diverse teams, rather than focusing on weaknesses. As newer models of relationship-based and partnership-driven approaches to leadership move to the forefront, transformative leadership is imperative to meet the demands of today’s complex network-structured health systems. Key Features: Presents the appreciative model and explores specific appreciative behaviors and what they look like in a complex health network system Teaches students and professionals how to lead in a complex health system Demonstrates quantum leadership theories in practice Navigate Companion Website featuring videos which explore key concepts

Nursing leadership needs a common framework in which to voice their problems and solutions, form policy, and make decisions that have a clear effect on their work environment. Published in partnership with AONL, Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence is a comprehensive book about professional nursing governance covering concepts, roles, and application to support students and professionals across all settings and roles where nurses work in addressing contemporary issues affecting the profession now and in the future. It covers all potential practice settings and focuses on providing the structure and examples of related behavior that exemplify professional practice. This unique text also supports organizations with strategies and tools to achieve exemplary, ongoing practice improvement, with tactics to support initiatives such as Magnet designation. The focus on structure and leadership behavior makes Professional Governance for Nursing: The Framework for Accountability, Engagement, and Excellence a must-have resource for students and nurses in all roles and settings.

Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions addresses the core competencies and behaviors required to be an innovative leader. This text fulfills the market need for an advanced practice resource focused on how to address new and emerging sources of evidence-based practice that can inform, translate and scale the complexity of leading innovation in healthcare organizations. Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions takes a patient-centered approach, discusses the perspectives on the dynamic of innovation and evidence as well as emerging competencies for leaders of healthcare innovation. To address the core competencies the text is expertly organized into four sections: I. Addresses the current landscape of evidence in innovation II. Examines new sources of evidence including technology and big data III. Discusses strategies for measuring innovation at a variety of system levels IV. Provides strategies to synthesize and disseminate evidence to advance innovation in healthcare. Key Features: * Teaches students how to mine and manage large data sets * Connects the idea of evidence-based practice to leadership practice * Addresses the gap in the knowledge base around research