Positive Leadership in Health Care: Building Strengths, Managing Around Weaknesses

Editors: Wesley Curry and Barbara Linney, MA

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Positive Leadership in Health Care: Building Strengths, Managing Around Weaknesses

Looking for some positive news in the chaotic world of health care? Look no further. Positive Leadership in Health Care: Building on Strengths, Managing Around Weaknesses showcases some of the great strides being made by health care leaders working to make things better. The book opens with insights from Charles Dwyer, PhD, who presents the latest research in positive psychology. You'll learn techniques for becoming more positive yourself and spreading that attitude around your health care organization. Other chapters, written by doctors, nurses and other health care specialists, examine:

• Improvements in physician/nurse relationships
• Hospitals in Wisconsin working together and reducing competition in order to make their state the safest place to receive health care
• Collaborative teams working to create the best outcomes for patients
• How safety practices in the airline industry are being applied to health care.

157 Pages © 2005

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Positive Psychology and the Physician

Chapter 2
Improvement in Nurse-Physician Relationships

Chapter 3
Disruptive Physician Behavior Success Stories

Chapter 4
Influencing Physicians to Change Disruptive Behavior: Defining Success

Chapter 5
Building on Strengths: Lessons from Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry

Chapter 6
Collaboration in the Delivery of Health Care

Chapter 7
Collaboration, not Competition: A Citywide Safety Collaborative That’s Putting Patients First

Chapter 8
Crew Resource Management Principles in Health Care: Improving Patient Safety through Teamwork Training

Chapter 9
Diversity and Cultural Competency: The Global Physician Executive