A Practical Guide to Leadership Development: Skills for Nurse Managers

Softbound book: 150 pages
Size: 11" x 8.5"
ISBN 1601460732
978-1601460738
HCPro / Opus
September 2007
Includes 3 Nursing Contact Hours!
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When it comes to training nurse managers, leadership development is an aspect that is often overlooked. But effective and inspirational nurse managers keep staff intellectually stimulated and committed to the workplace.

As the current generation of nurse leaders begins to train and develop their successors, now is the time to instill current and future nurses managers with the effective communication, project management, and coaching skills they need to:

Become inspirational and encouraging nurse leaders
Cultivate a healthy and appealing nursing environment
Stimulate staff and boost retention
Train the next generation of nurse leaders

This new and exciting resource outlines the most definitive principles of leadership development, taking nurse managers from standard supervisors to inspiring leaders.

A Practical Guide to Leadership Development uses practical examples to highlight important leadership competencies, which are based on the competencies identified by the Healthcare Leadership Alliance in 2006 as a way to help healthcare leaders meet the challenges of today’s healthcare systems. The competencies were developed with input from top professional societies, including the American Organization of Nurse Executives. The book covers leadership competencies such as:

Effective communication and relationship management
Mentorship, coaching, and professional development
Change management and project leadership

In an industry of increasing competition and clinical staffing issues, it’s important to raise the standard of professional nursing development at your facility. Rely on A Practical Guide to Leadership Development to cultivate a healthy nursing environment, boost retention, and develop your future leaders. Take a look at the table of contents:

Leadership dimensions and processes
Knowledge of the healthcare environment
Competencies: Professionalism and business skills
Systems thinking: Big thinking for local success
Communication
Building a positive work environment
Professional development
Change management and project leadership
Retention strategies: Retaining the best, leaving the rest
Succession planning

Who should buy this book? A Practical Guide to Leadership Development: Skills for Nurse Managers is the perfect resource for nurse managers, CNOs, DONs, nurse educators, directors of education, and staff development specialists.

Earn 3 continuing education credits This educational activity for 3 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc., a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. Learning objectives:

Discuss strategies to improve competence in business skills
Discuss strategies that create a healthy work environment
Determine how organizational culture and climate affect leadership
Identify ways to resolve performance problems
Discuss the use of coaching to improve employee performance and development
Examine the role leaders can play as change agents
Determine factors that contribute to retention
Discuss the benefits of establishing a leadership succession program

Patrick R. Coonan, EdD, RN, CNAA, is dean and professor at the School of Nursing at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, and has had a long history of service in nursing leadership and education. Throughout his career he has held senior patient care management positions at major medical centers in the New York metropolitan area. He has been the chief nursing officer in an academic medical center, a health system, and a teaching community hospital and was a fellow in the Johnson & Johnson-Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has held educational administration positions at three Universities. He is certified in Nursing Administration Advanced from the American Nurses Association.

Dr. Coonan’s work now includes leadership assessment and development, integrating technology into nursing management and educational systems, executive coaching, personnel development, and planning. He has written and presented extensively on nursing management and leadership as well as nursing systems and nursing education.

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

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