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The healthcare landscape is continuously shifting and evolving, especially when it comes to leadership. With Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition, Tim Porter-O'Grady and Kathy Malloch delve into theories about contemporary leadership within today’s increasingly complex and diverse healthcare delivery systems.

The Fifth Edition explores the development of leadership through empowerment and team engagement. It analyzes the characteristics and roles of leaders to provide strategies for leading interdisciplinary teams within new models of the complex healthcare system. Also integrated are the essential requirements for Quality Matters certification for online course development.

Topics: Kathy Malloch, New Edition, Quantum Leadership, nursing, nursing leadership, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

Welcome back guest blogger, Daniel Weberg, co-author of Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions for a new post on technology.

Although difficult, unraveling the care process across the healthcare system is necessary in order to identify specific areas where technology can enable care for the future and meet the triple aim.  Healthcare systems that scrutinize this process can incorporate technology to decrease cost, improve patient experience, and improve overall population health. To affect change, leaders must be able to lead through ambiguity in order to see the patterns that signal change.  Technology is a disruptor and it can motivate teams to create novel solutions to long held problems like those in the Triple Aim.  The key for any leader is to understand how technology fits in.  It’s seldom the only solution but rather a facilitator and catalyst to systemic change.

Topics: evidence-based innovation, Kathy Malloch, Daniel Weberg, evidence-based practice, healthcare innovation, nursing, nursing leadership, Sandra Davidson, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

Please welcome guest blogger, Daniel Weberg, co-author of Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions for an informative post on technology.

Emerging technologies are rapidly changing how nursing care is delivered by enhancing the tools for patient assessment, enabling care anywhere, delivering instant information for evidence-based care interventions, and the improving efficiency and quality of care delivery.  Remote monitoring, virtual wound care, and high definition video allow nurses to assess patients away from the bedside.  Care is being delivered anywhere through the use of social networks and virtual wound care tools.  Information is delivered instantly to care providers through mobile devices, data dashboards, and virtual learning systems.  Finally, patient care has become more efficient through the linkage of Real Time Location Systems connecting patient, equipment, and nurses together for coordinated efforts.  Technology is enabling care in ways that the profession may not be prepared to handle.

Topics: evidence-based innovation, Kathy Malloch, Daniel Weberg, evidence-based practice, healthcare innovation, nursing, nursing leadership, Sandra Davidson, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

Our recently published Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions by Sandra Davidson, Daniel Weberg, Tim Porter-O'Grady, and Kathy Malloch is already garnering great reviews. According to Michalene A. King, PhD, RN, CNE, from Robert Morris University, writing for Doody's Review Service, it is,

"…the first book of its kind that I have seen. It covers important information about EBP and leadership [and] would be a great addition to the library of any healthcare leader."

Topics: evidence-based innovation, Kathy Malloch, Daniel Weberg, evidence-based practice, healthcare innovation, nursing, nursing leadership, Review, Sandra Davidson, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

Have you been looking for a text to educate the next generation of healthcare innovation leaders? We just published the eagerly-awaited Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions by Sandra Davidson, Daniel Weberg, Tim Porter-O'Grady, and Kathy Malloch.

Written by healthcare leaders for current and future innovation leaders, it addresses the current and emerging issues facing healthcare leaders and practitioners who lead evidence-based innovation. A truly unique text, Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions systematically addresses innovation and evidence from the perspectives of both a leader and a practitioner within the context of health care.

Topics: evidence-based innovation, Kathy Malloch, Daniel Weberg, evidence-based practice, healthcare innovation, New Text, nursing, nursing leadership, Sandra Davidson, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership, Recently Published

Terrific news to share-- Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care, Second Edition by Tim Porter-O’Grady and Kathy Malloch just received a perfect score of 100 and 5 stars from Doody's Review Service.

Topics: Kathy Malloch, Doody's Review Service, Navigate, nursing, nursing leadership, Review, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

With today's rapidly changing healthcare environment, it's never been more important for nurses to have both the skills and the knowledge necessary to help them become leaders in the workplace. Our recently published Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care, Second Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access by Tim Porter-O'Grady and Kathy Malloch provides nursing students with the leadership skills they need to thrive in the field.

Topics: Kathy Malloch, New Edition, Navigate, nursing, nursing leadership, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

We've just received a perfect score of 100 and 5 stars from Doody's Review Service for Quantum Leadership: Building Better Partnerships for Sustainable Health, Fourth Edition by Tim Porter-O'Grady and Kathy Malloch. Reviewer, Cynthia Lee Cummings, RN, MSN, EdD, from the University of North Florida Brooks College of Health, calls it "an extremely well-made book that is very inclusive in the topics it covers."

Topics: Kathy Malloch, Quantum Leadership, Doody's Review Service, nursing leadership, Review, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

The wait is over-- Quantum Leadership: Building Better Partnerships for Sustainable Health, Fourth Edition by Tim Porter-O'Grady and Kathy Malloch just published! As you've come to expect, this seminal text provides the clarity, depth, and detail necessary to prepare graduate students to thrive in a world of healthcare reform, complexity, and essential caring service.

Topics: Kathy Malloch, New Edition, Quantum Leadership, nursing leadership, Tim Porter-O'Grady, Leadership

Doody’s Review Service just awarded 5-stars to Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care by Tim Porter-O'Grady and Kathy Malloch. Reviewer Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN, from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh writes that,

Topics: Kathy Malloch, Doody's Review Service, nursing leadership, Review, Tim Porter-O'Grady, nursing management, Leadership