The Growth and Development of Nurse Leaders

This book delivers an inspiring first-person narrative to help nurses at all career levels embrace and hone their leadership potential. Brimming with insight and personal anecdotes -- while grounded in scholarly literature -- this comprehensive and practical book addresses the major contemporary arenas of leadership: personal, organizational, and transformational. It discusses the personal qualities required of a good leader, the value of attaining self-knowledge, sustaining career optimism in the face of failure, orchestrating a career, achieving organizational goals, effective communication, the importance of strategic vision, and more. -- From publisher's description.