Team Leadership and Partnering in Nursing and Health Care

Teamwork is an undisputed asset for reducing nursing and medical errors,
improving quality of patient care, resolving workload issues, and avoiding burnout.
This text helps to foster the leadership expertise and partnerships that will
facilitate the delivery of the highest-quality care. It based on the time-tested
wisdom that leadership knowledge, skills and, competencies gained by training a
group of nurses in the same organization rather than a single nurse are much more
likely to result in genuine organizational transformation. It is the only text
available to focus in depth on building and maintaining effective partnerships,
motivating and developing others in the team, organizational analysis, strategizing,
communicating, planning and managing change, measuring team and partnership
effectiveness through metrics, and leveraging results within and outside of the
organization.

Case studies across a variety of organizations
and environments and drawn from years of nursing team and leadership training,
illuminate key points and provide readers with real life examples of the application
of key concepts. These include such scenarios as developing a team to create,
implement and evaluate a nurse residency program in a large tertiary hospital;
creating a cross-agency public health team to plan and deploy rural H1N1 responses;
founding a multi-campus team for the creation and implementation of a new BSN
curriculum; and leadership in a partnership to support the legislative creation of a
nursing workforce center. Learning objectives, tables, charts, models, and questions
for thought in each chapter reinforce information in the text. Plentiful references
provide opportunities for further study. Authored by a noted expert in education,
team building, and policy making in nursing and health care, the book will be of
value to emerging and seasoned leaders and graduate educators and students,
including CNL, DNP, and NPs.

Key Features:

• Examines, in depth, team leadership and
  professional, clinical, and educational partnering in and for nursing
  
• Features real-life case studies in diverse practice and academic centers
  
• Offers a practical approach to applying team leadership and partnership
  concepts when facilitating health care change
• Reviews team models and
  skills, how to take action, issues and challenges along the way, measuring results,
  and applying leverage to sustain gains
• Presents information in a concise,
  step-by-step format replete with learning objectives, tables, charts, and questions
  for thought