A Clinician's Survival Guide to Leadership and Management on the Ward

When you become a ward or unit manager or allied health professionals team leader, your responsibilities change and you need a very different set of skills compared with your previous roles. You are now required to manage a team of staff with a set budget and are responsible for maintaining an environment in which people can work together efficiently and effectively. This new fourth edition of the Survival Guide to Leadership and Management on the Ward welcomes AHP Krishna Gohil to the author team of nurses Brian Dolan and Amy Lochtie, and thereby extends its guidance on these crucial skills to both nurses and allied health professionals.

This book will help you to

• Identify your responsibilities and best approaches as a manager to provide patients with a high standard of care through your staff
• IBecome an even better leader through highly practical examples, suggestions and tips
• IManage your staff, time and budget
• ICreate a positive work environment
• IFamiliarize yourself with the new Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health and Care Professions Council standards

Key Features

• Focuses on both nursing and allied health professionals who are in the role of ward managers, unit managers or team leaders, or aspire to be so
• Significantly builds on how to understand your role, work with different generations in the workplace and manage difficult situations
• Includes greater emphasis on self-care and self-compassion for leaders and managers
• Covers leading teams in the context of enduring financial and staffing constraints

About the Authors

By Brian Dolan, OBE, FFNMRCSI, FRSA, MSc (Oxon), MSc (Nurs), RMN, RGN, Director, Health Service 360; Honorary Professor, Leadership in Healthcare, Salford University, Manchester; Honorary President, AGILE - the Professional Network for Physiotherapists working with Older People; Honorary Adjunct Professor of Innovation in Healthcare, Bond University, SE Queensland; Professor, Coventry University; Amy Lochtie, FRSA, RGN, FSBP, West Yorkshire Innovation Hub Director, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber; West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; NHS Assembly member Northwest Clinical Senate member; NIHR Expert Reviewer; Krishna Gohil, MSc, FHEA, PgCert, BSc (Hons) Podiatry, FRCPod, FFPM, RCPS (Glasg), Senior Lecturer in Prescribing and Podiatry, University of Northampton; Non-Executive Director and Fellow, Royal College of Podiatry; Executive member of the Foot in Diabetes UK Committee and Fellow and Regional Advisor, Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians (Glasg)