Focuses on developing the leadership skills needed to direct improvement in healthcare systems. This unique text not only provides DNP students with practical guidance throughout their education, but also focuses on an often overlooked but vitally important DNP component: developing the leadership skills needed to effectively implement, sustain and spread change. Presenting improvement methods within the framework of leadership, the book helps students to understand the practical applications of their education. Beyond orienting students to the work of the DNP, the text helps them to understand the scope of practice and how it is related to larger issues and challenges within health care. A significant portion of the text is devoted entirely to leadership, particularly from a systems perspective. Using cases and examples, it addresses different ways DNPs can lead healthcare and elaborates on the types of improvement processes that are initiated by DNPs: translation of EBP and Research into Practice, Process Improvement, and Program Evaluation. The book discusses how improvement is measured and offers several chapters on the DNP project including its financial implications. PowerPoint slides accompany the text along with an Instructor's Guide, which provides tips on how instructors can help students to assimilate the large body of knowledge required in the DNP program. Key Features: Frames content within the context of leadership Prepares DNP graduates to lead innovative models in value-based health care systems Offers an innovative approach to understanding the DNP Leader and the DNP Project Delivers up-to-date information about improvement work in health care systems that is specific to DNP students and graduates Includes cases and practical examples to illuminate information Distills "timeless" resources that faculty and students will return to again and again
