Management and Leadership – A Guide for Clinical Professionals

Succeeding in your consultant interview.- Clinical leadership and engagement: No longer an optional extra.- The art of negotiation, handling difficult behaviour, and facing the media.- Handling complaints, meetings, and presentations.- Performance appraisal and assessment.- Quality improvement.- Risk management.- Root cause analysis.- Occupational health and safety.- Coping with stress.- The nature of conflict in health-care.- Evidence based management.- Clinical handovers.- The educational role of senior hospital staff.- Mentoring.- Expert or impostor- understanding the role of the expert witness.- How to dress at work.- Managing ethically complex issues in critically ill patients - a neonatal perspective.- Communicating bad news in the health care organization.- Managing grief and its consequences at the workplace.

From the book reviews:

"The purpose is to provide information on essential management and leadership skills. The book is a quick resource guide. It is written for anyone interested in understanding management and leadership in a healthcare setting. It seems most appropriate for beginning level managers. ... This is a nice, easy-to-read overview of management and leadership skills." (Cynthia Lee Cummings, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2015)