Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare offers a range of tools and topics that support and foster clinically focused nurses and other healthcare professionals to develop their leadership skills and strategies. The textbook is helpfully divided into three parts: information on the attributes of clinical leaders, the tools healthcare students and staff can use to develop their leadership potential and clinical leadership issues. It also outlines a number of principles, frameworks, and topics that support nurses and healthcare professionals to develop and deliver effective clinical care as clinical leaders. Lastly, each chapter has a range of reflective questions and self-assessments to help consolidate learning.

The newly revised 3rd edition has been updated in light of recent key changes in health service approaches to care and values. While it covers a wide spectrum of practical topics, Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare also includes information on:

• Theories of leadership and management, organisational culture, gender, generational issues and leaders, project management, quality initiatives, and working in teams
• Managing change, effective clinical decision making, how to network and delegate, how to deal with conflict, and implementing evidence-based practice
• Congruent leadership, the link between values and actions, authentic leadership, leaving behind control as an objective, and managing power
• Why decisions go wrong, techniques for developing creativity, barriers to creativity, conflict resolution and management, negotiation, self-talk, and leading in a crisis.

With expert input from a diverse collection of experienced contributors, Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare is an invaluable resource for new leaders trying to establish themselves and existing leaders looking to perform at a higher level when it comes to quality and effective patient care.
About the Author:

Dr David Stanley NursD, MSc (Health Sciences), BN, Dip HS (Nursing), Gerontic Cert, TF, Grad Cert HPE, RN, RM. David is a Registered Nurse and Midwife. He is also an author and post with an interesting Australian Bush poetry. He began his nursing career in the 1980's and his interesting clinically focused leadership came about because he was once a Nurse Practitioner. David is currently an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University and a Research Mentor at Fiji's National University. He retains his passion for the development of empowered nurse leaders and frontline health professionals with a focus on high quality clinical care.

Dr Alison Heulwen James, DAHP, SFHEA, PGCE, MA, BA (Hons), Dip Critical Care, RGN, BA. Alison is a Registered Nurse and Doctor of Advanced Healthcare Practice with a background in Neurosciences, Critical Care, Osteoporosis and Knowledge Transfer in health and social care. She is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University in Wales, UK. Alison teaches Leadership and Quality Improvement on programmes across the nursing and allied health programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is a coach and mentor for student leadership in the UK. Alison's research is focused on leadership development in the healthcare workforce and education, how this impacts delivery and quality of patient care and influences cultures within healthcare environments.

Dr Clare Bennett D.Nurs, SFHEA, PGCE, MSc, BSc (Hons), Dip.N, RGN. Clare is a Registered Nurse with a background in Sexual Health, Immunology, HIV and Infectious Diseases. She is a Doctor of Nursing and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. She has taught Leadership, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for nurses and allied health professionals for over two decades. Clare is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she teaches clinical leadership in the context of advancing clinical practice. Clare is co-Director of the Wales Centre for Evidence Based Care and teaches and coaches in the field of evidence development and implementation.