Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career: 50 Lessons that Drive Success

by Kenneth R. White (Author), Dorrie K. Fontaine (Author)

This practical guide introduces nurses to what it takes to be a leader and how to develop a successful and rewarding career. The most effective nurse leaders know that authenticity and truth are the best path to success. They have learned to really pay attention, to truly be consummate professionals, and to wholly be the very best version of themselves that they can be.

In 50 succinct lessons, Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career outlines the traits, habits, and skills nurse leaders must master for maximum personal and career success. Drawing on more than eight decades of combined experience in nursing and healthcare, the authors offer an insider s guide to what nurses need to cultivate to be a successful leader. Nurses at all levels of their careers will learn what it takes to lead and how to develop personally and professionally.

Taking a three-pronged approach Manage Yourself, Manage Your Job, and Boost Your Career the 50 lessons offer evidence-based advice that is both practical and professional. Each lesson includes exercises for self-exploration and resources for further learning. Let this book guide you toward, onto, and along your management or leadership career path.

About the Author
Kenneth R. White, PhD, AGACNP, ACHPN, FACHE, FAAN, is the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center endowed professor of nursing and associate dean for strategic partnerships and innovation in the School of Nursing. He also holds faculty appointments in the UVA School of Medicine, Darden School of Business, and McIntire School of Commerce. Dr. White has more than 40 years experience in healthcare organizations in clinical, administrative, governance, and consulting capacities. He spent 13 years with Mercy Health Services as a senior executive in marketing, operations, and international healthcare consulting. He is a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner with specialty board certification in palliative care. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing as well as a Fellow, former Regent, and former member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dr. White has authored or contributed to several Health Administration Press books. He currently serves as Chair of ACHE's LGBT Forum.

Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN has served since 2008 as dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia (UVA), where she is the Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and associate chief nursing officer at the UVA Medical Center. The founder of UVA s Compassionate Care Initiative, she has more than 40 years experience as a critical care and trauma nurse and a distinguished record of leadership at the nation s top nursing schools, including those of the University of Maryland; Georgetown University; and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Fontaine is a past president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the current president of the Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing. Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1995, she received both the Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and a Medallion for Contributions to the Profession from Villanova University in 1999. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland in 2012 and the 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr., UVA Health System Award for championing diversity and inclusion.