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.
Servant Leadership in Nursing: Spirituality and Practice in Contemporary Healthcare 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 healthcare setting with extensive literature review on leadership in nursing and health care as well as on servant leadership. This unique text also includes a newly developed model of servant leadership in nursing, supported by powerful and poignant perceptions and experiences of servant leadership elicited in interviews with 75 contemporary nursing leaders.
Mary Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at The Catholic University of America. She is also a parish nurse and the author ofseven titles, four of which, A Nurse's Handbook of Spiritual Care: Standing on Holy Ground, Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, Second Edition, Prayer in Nursing: The Spirituality of Compassionate Caregiving, and Parish Nursing: Healthcare Ministry within the Church, are published by Jones and Bartlett.