Servant Leadership in Nursing

Servant Leadership in Nursing: Spirituality and Practice in Contemporary Health Care embraces the philosophy that a true leader, in any venue, must be a servant of those he or she leads. This text includes current information on the relevance of servant leadership for nurses practicing in a health care setting with extensive literature review on leadership in nursing and healthcare as well as on servant leadership. This unique text also includes many powerful and poignant perceptions and experiences of servant leadership elicited in tape-recorded interviews with 75 nursing leaders currently practicing in the contemporary healthcare system.

ChapterChapter 1 Called to Serve: The Nurse's Vocation of Caring
ChapterChapter 2 The Spiritual Heritage of Servant Leadership in Nursing: A Tradition of Service
ChapterChapter 3 The Biblical Roots of the Nurse's Call to Serve
ChapterChapter 4 Nursing's Call to Servant Leadership
ChapterChapter 5 A Model of Servant Leadership for Nursing
ChapterChapter 6 Servant Leadership in Contemporary Nursing
ChapterChapter 7 Servant Leadership in the Healthcare Setting
ChapterChapter 8 The Spirituality of Servant Leadership in Nursing