Servant Leadership in Nursing
- ISBN-10
- 0763774855
- ISBN-13
- 9780763774851
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 355
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Author
- Mary O'Brien
Description
Servant Leadership in Nursing: Spirituality and Practice in Contemporary Health Care embraces the philosophy that a true leader, in any venue, must be a servant of those he or she leads. This text includes current information on the relevance of servant leadership for nurses practicing in a health care setting with extensive literature review on leadership in nursing and healthcare as well as on servant leadership. This unique text also includes many powerful and poignant perceptions and experiences of servant leadership elicited in tape-recorded interviews with 75 nursing leaders currently practicing in the contemporary healthcare system.
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- 2010-01-29
- 374 pages
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