

Leadership Development for Nurses and Midwives - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 1st Edition
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- Increases awareness of how personality preferences influence personal effectiveness and performance in teams
- Shows how to identify opportunities to influence and how to express yourself for impact
- Supports personal resilience and how to stay calm under pressure
- Brings theory to life through authentic case studies provided by current nursing and midwifery leaders working in a range of settings
- Reflects contemporary practice and responds to identified gaps in leadership development for nurses and midwives
- Reflective learning activities encourage the reader to apply principles to their own self-development
- Presents historical references to Florence Nightingale and her relevance to modern day nursing throughout
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Chapter number and title
Author
Synopsis
- Florence Nightingale and The Foundation
Greta Westwood
- Introduction to into the history and heritage of FNF including an account of how FNF are continuing the legacy of Florence Nightingale
- Personality and performance in teams
Greta Westwood
- Introduce concept of self and impact of self on others explored through the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
- Explore the MBTI preference pairs and apply concepts to self through a range of experiential learning exercises
- Consider the outcome of your MBTI self-assessment and questionnaire to identify areas for personal and team development.
- Influencing change
Claire Henry Associates
- Have an understanding ‘improvement science’ methodology
- Know how to apply the approach to your clinical situation as a leader
- Develop plans to apply the approach to practice to define a change project
- Building authority
HartRidge Leadership Consultancy
- Improved personal awareness, influence and capabilities to deal with the challenges and demands of leadership role.
- Increased confidence and ability to speak up and be heard.
- Improved personal impact that can support inclusion, patient centred, and compassionate care.
- Develop your own personal approach to leadership – exploring values, biases, blind spots, and attitude to diversity.
- Confidence to tackle real workplace issues, reflecting what is needed in the clinical setting to promote safe, high-performing, and continuous improvement.
- Improved skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours to succeed and operate successfully in clinical setting.
- Developing presence and having impact
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Gaining self-awareness of their own style of how they communicate and learning to flex this as needed
- Understanding transactional analysis and behavioural preferences, and the opportunity to try out different behavioural preferences in a safe environment
- Learning how to inspire others
- Developing leadership skills to use amongst their own team so that they can prepare future leaders and empower the good people around them
- Building the ability to influence through their own confidence, presence and authenticity, and learning to create trust
- Learning how to deal with things like imposter syndrome and the fear of getting things wrong
- Understanding how to build one's own resilience and tools for staying effective under pressure
- The experience of rehearsing responses to behaviours they find challenging through the medium of forum theatre
- Sharing of best communications practice and examples of relationship building
- Building a network of colleagues which will lead to creating ‘bright spots' within the NHS, thus enabling greater opportunities to have influence in their area and 'light fires'
- Gaining political acumen and enabling influence
Edan & Partners
- Better understand the politics that affect them, in whatever sector they work.
- The ‘big P’ politics of Westminster, Whitehall and regional or local government
- The ‘small p’ organisational politics that are so vital to understand and navigate. Understanding the policy making and political process and how to influence makes decision-makers tick.
- Digital Health Leadership
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives – Digital Health Leadership
- Enable nurses to work at the top of their licence by using health IT to transform their practice.
- To be advocates for IT adoption in a health and care setting and be confident justifying IT spend,
- Designing strategies and encouraging adaptive change from their colleagues.
- Demonstrating expertise through disseminating practice
Gemma Stacey
- Explore motivations and barriers to writing for publication
- Consider the benefits of dissemination in relation to building a profile as an expert/ authority in a particular field.
- Identify practical strategies for initiating the dissemination process
- Creating psychologically safe spaces/Peer group coaching
Gemma Stacey
- Learning how to work in a small group with colleagues, and through a structured questioning/ listening approach, effectively work on real problems being faced;
- Developing individuals’ learning experience, so personal awareness of potential changed behaviours that may be possible in tackling problems, is increased;
- Increasing individuals’ understanding of personal effectiveness and personal power.
- Conclusions – returning to continuing Florence’s legacy
- Gemma Stacey and Greta Westwood
- Revision of key messages from introductory chapter
- Summary of how content of book relates to continuing Florence’s legacy
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Gemma Stacey, PhD, MN, RN (MENTAL HEALTH), PGCHE, PFHEAD, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, The Florence Nightingale Foundation, London, UK and Greta Westwood