Nurse Executive: The Four Principles of Management

This book takes insights drawn from the Executive Nurse Fellows program established by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote the idea of leadership development as an empowering force among nurses at ALL levels. It is intended as both a guide for professionals; leaders in schools of nursing, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, ambulatory care, long-term care, public and occupational health, and public policy, and as a text in leadership courses for students at master's level and beyond. It presents the core competencies developed by the RWJ Nurse Fellows program--i.e. interpersonal and communication effectiveness, risk-taking and creativity, self-knowledge, inspiring and leading change, and strategic vision--as the keys to nursing leadership.The book is organized around the program's "leadership compass," a method used in leadership skill development. The four points of that compass are: Purpose: the vision to lead People: the passion to work with others Process: the skills to manage change Personal: the self-knowledge to thrive For each of these four points, the contributors (all graduates of the RWJ program) explore related competencies in each of three sections of the book: issues in public health, education, and service. The chapters reflect real-world experiences and are built around case studies that highlight one or two of the competencies.

About the Author

Linda Thompson Adams, DrPH, RN, FAAN, is the Dean and Professor of the School of Nursing at Oakland University. Edward O'Neil, PhD, MPA, is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center for the Health Professions, a research, advocacy and training institute created to stimulate change in health professions education. Since 1989, Dr. O'Neil has been the Executive Director of the Pew Health Professions Commission, which he started as a way of elevating health professional education and health workforce issues in the debate on national health care reform.