Visionary Leadership in Healthcare: Excellence in Practice, Policy, and Ethics, Paperback

Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Management and Leadership!This book informs healthcare leaders to implement leadership theories at the micro and macro systems level. At a micro level, it explains how leaders build and maintain a healthy work environment at the individual or team levels. At the macro level, the book discusses leadership’s role in facilitating change at the organizational, health system, national, global, and even planetary levels. It also expands leadership knowledge on how leaders can influence and transform practice, including policy change, disaster management, political and social determinants of health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and the Ethics of Belonging. Each chapter has a section to introduce how to integrate theories into practice.This book is timely, especially during this challenging time of pandemic. The chapters address ways to nurture a healthy work environment, mitigate organizational trauma, foster resilience, improve interprofessional collaboration, and promote exceptional patient experiences. The book gathers great minds in healthcare to make it unique from others. Each chapter uses a collective voice to shape the future of healthcare. The authors provide practical strategies for healthcare leaders to face the challenges regarding innovation, complexity, systems, and partnership in healthcare.The book comprises five parts, which support leadership development in clinical practice or academic settings. With an emphasis on collaboration and partnerships, it moves away from hierarchical forms of leadership to more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic, and caring styles. Following is a brief introduction of the five parts. Part 1 presents leadership theories in organizations. There are four chapters in this part. Part 2 addresses healthy work environments. The four chapters in this part support readers in establishing and promoting organizational culture and environments. Part 3 introduces and explains ways to apply novice leadership theories to practice. Part 4 is about collaboration, leading change, and innovation. Part 5 is about envisioning the future of healthcare leadership.Finally, this book guides readers to explore leadership possibilities and prospects from different standpoints. Our interpretation of leadership continues to grow. Through this leadership book, we hope readers create a vision beyond our current systems toward a global, life-sustaining perspective, inspired and moved to actions that promote the transformation and revolution of healthcare by leading to sustainable health and humanity.

Holly Wei, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is a Professor and Assistant Dean for the PhD program at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. Her overarching research focuses on healthcare organizational culture, leadership development, clinician well-being, stress genomic biomarkers, and patient care quality. She is known nationally and internationally for her nursing practice models and a Convergent Care Theory. Multiple healthcare systems have used Wei's nursing models to guide practice and promote organizational culture and patient care with significant improvements in nursing practice and patient care quality.Wei's scholarly work has reached and influenced the nursing profession in academia and clinical nursing practice globally. In the past five years, Wei had over 50 peer-reviewed publications and delivered over 70 presentations, including radio and TV interviews, influencing tens of thousands of nurses globally. Some of her articles are among the top-read, top-downloaded, and top-cited articles of journals. Wei is an Associate Editor of the International Journal for Human Caring. She sits on two boards of directors and two journals' editorial board positions, including Advances in Nursing Science.Wei has received numerous prestigious awards throughout her career. Recently, she received the International Leininger Caring-Culture Award, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching, DAISY Extraordinary Faculty, Nurse Educator of the Year, Scholar-Teacher Award, Outstanding Research Scholar Award, and Nursing Research Award. These awards affirm her significant contributions and influences in nursing leadership and practice regionally and globally.

Sara Horton-Deutsch, PhD, RN, PMHCNS, FAAN, ANEF, is a Caritas Coach and a Professor and the Director of the Kaiser Permanente/USF Partnership at the University of San Francisco, where she mentors the next generation of nursing leaders through the lens of Caring Science and values-based leadership. She also serves as a Faculty Associate with the Watson Caring Science Institute. In 2021, she co-created and initiated the Caritas Leadership Program, a uniquely customized six-month program guiding participants through executive Caring Science leader dialogues, interactive circles, and participant transformation projects.She is also a founding partner of Better Together Healing, LLC, a holistic practice partnership specializing in an integrative approach to heal the self, build collaborations, and create healthy and bounded communities. As a therapeutic practitioner and Caritas leadership coach, she collaborates with healthcare professionals and organizations seeking balance and growth who are open to engaging in innovative approaches to healing. Her comprehensive approach includes certifications in professional coaching and training through the Leadership Circle and Working with Resilience, providing comprehensive profiles and assessments to raise the conscious practice of leadership and build regenerative success at work.Horton-Deutsch holds a research fellowship at the University of South Africa School of Human Sciences, where she encourages critical discourse and collaborates with faculty to enhance research and scholarship. Her research foci are on leadership development, reflective practice, and creating healing and healthy work environments. She has co-edited four textbooks. Her work has been published in three books with Sigma: Reflective Practice: Transforming Education and Improving Outcomes (2012 & 2017), Reflective Organizations: On the Front Linesof QSEN & Reflective Practice Implementation (2015), and Caritas Coaching: A Journey Toward Transpersonal Caring for Informed Moral Action in Healthcare (2018).Her most recent awards, honors, and fellowships include 2020-2021 Experienced Academic Nurse Leadership Academy Faculty Mentor, Sigma; 2018-2019 Faculty Fellowship in Ignatian Tradition, University of San Francisco; 2016-2024 Invited Research Fellow, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2016-2017 Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy, Faculty Mentor, Sigma; 2014 Fellow, American Academy of Nursing; 2013 Fellow, Academy of Nursing Education; Fellow, National League for Nursing.