Leadership Styles and Healthcare Management in Jordan and Worldwide

This book provides an overview of leadership and leader work in general, detailing the most important roles, skills, challenges, abilities and goals that a nursing leader needs to employ to be successful. The first chapter details the context of healthcare. This is followed by an overview of the literature of health service leadership, describing the similarities and differences between health service leadership and its more generalised leader counterpart. Later, this book provides a review of studies and articles written about hospital leadership. Moreover, the book elucidates the role, skills, challenges and educational needs of health service leaders, while the last chapter summarises this book. A review of the research related to the health leadership role is presented. The present book aims to understand the nature of the leadership work of public and private hospital head nurse managers and to evaluate their perceptions of their most important roles, skills and training courses for head nurse managers. Also, this book aims to recognise the challenges, obstacles and problems facing head nurse managers and to examine the degree of their impact on health outcomes.