FACILITATOR GUIDE for Visionary Leadership in Healthcare

This Facilitator Guide is designed to work with the textbook and Learner Activities Workbook and follows a similar format. It includes reflective questions and guiding answers, narratives and guiding responses, quizzes and answers, and PowerPoint slides. Learners can use the reflective questions and narratives to guide their reading, thinking, and group discussions or activities.

Like the textbook, this Facilitator Guide comprises five parts, which support nurse leaders' development in clinical practice or academic settings.



PART I -- The guide presents leadership theories in organizations. There are four topics in this part, which are close­ly connected:

PART II -- Leadership's roles in creating healthy work environments are addressed. The four topics in this part sup­port readers in establishing and promoting organizational culture and environments:

PART III -- Four visionary leadership theories are applied in practice:

PART IV -- The role of nurse leadership in collaboration, leading change, and innovation is presented:

PART V -- The last part envisions the future of nurse leadership:



With an emphasis on collaboration and partnerships, this book moves away from hierarchical forms of leadership to teach more engaged, open, equitable, inclusive, authentic and caring leadership styles.