Includes bibliographical references

1. Identifying Your Leadership Strengths and Opportunities for Growth
-- 2. Diversity in Health Care Organizations
-- 3. Working with Indigenous Leadership and Indigenous Environments
-- 4. The Role of Nurse Leaders in the Development of the Canadian Health Care System
-- 5. Providing Nursing Leadership within the Health Care System
-- 6. Primary Health Care
-- 7. Leadership in Quality Management and Safety
-- 8. Leaders and Evidence-Informed Decision Making
-- 9. Common Change Theories and Application to Different Nursing Situations
-- 10. Using Advocacy to Galvanize Ethics into Action
-- 11. Identifying and Understanding How to Manage Conflict
-- 12. Responsibility and Authority of Nurse Leaders
-- 13. Emergency Preparedness and Response
-- 14. Nursing Leadership through Informatics
-- 15. Regulation, the Law, Labour Relations, and Negotiations
-- 16. Emerging Nursing Leadership Issues

Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles across Saskatchewan and Canada have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing Canadian health care environment. Assembling this information using an online format allows for the material to be updated regularly so as to keep pace with the rapid expansion of knowledge.

The specific goals of this textbook are:

to ensure the information is relevant to Saskatchewan nursing students,
to tailor the content to nursing students’ needs for both practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge,
to provide up-to-date evidence-informed content on nursing leadership,
to thread Aboriginal content throughout the textbook, and
to tailor the textbook to the curriculum.