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Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing

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Reviewed:: Oct 26, 2025 by Health Sciences

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Overview:

Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing health community.

Type of Material:

Open Access Textbook

Recommended Uses:

The open-access textbook can be used in class lectures, as homework, or for group work, working on the exercises at the end of chapters.
The textbook is best used as a resource to understand leadership and how to influence change in nursing practice.

Technical Requirements:

Internet access
Web browser

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Nursing students will take this course in their third year prior to entering practice.

Goals:

to ensure the information is relevant to Saskatchewan nursing students,
to tailor the content to nursing students’ needs for both practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge,
to provide up-to-date, evidence-informed content on nursing leadership,
to thread Indigenous content throughout the textbook, and
to tailor the textbook to the curriculum.

Target Student Population:

This material is designed for nursing students, particularly those near the end of nursing school. It is relevant to undergraduate nursing students, nursing leadership programs, and those preparing to assume leadership roles in healthcare settings.

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

A foundational understanding of nursing practice, healthcare systems, and basic patient care is essential. No prior leadership training is required, as the book introduces the professional nurse’s leadership role.
Basic computer skills

Content Quality

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Strengths:

Impressive depth and quality of content in the textbook.
The breadth of leadership content, from defining basic terms, quality and safety, ethics, managing conflict, and disaster response, is exceptional.
All content is appropriate and complete. The order of the chapters will help the student navigate the material in a logical order.
The emphasis is on Canadian organizations and Indigenous populations.
An excellent resource for Canadian nursing students, especially those living in Saskatchewan.

Concerns:

Consider adding content on interprofessional education. The education aspect would improve the textbook.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

This open-access textbook effectively teaches student nurses about leadership, challenges, conflict resolution, legality and ethics, and emerging trends.
Multiple authors with diverse nursing leadership roles across Saskatchewan and Canada have contributed to this textbook. These varied experiences and knowledge strengthen the quality and applicability of this text.
The material is well-suited for integration into a course and offers several ways to assess and reinforce student learning.
Use of the textbook has a high potential for effectiveness in achieving learning goals, promoting conceptual understanding, and supporting diverse teaching and learning methods.
Includes learning activities.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

The About the book section provides the student with textbook goals
Key terms are bolded
"From the Field" is included with bullet-point content that shows "wise words from nurse leaders" and realistic applications of the content to nursing practice.
Headings are hierarchical and set for screen readers.
Links are in ordinary text.
Text is selectable.

Concerns:

The links to the videos are not working at Essential Learning Activity 7.5.1: Watch these two videos for more detailed information on how to use PDSA: “PDSA Part 1” (4:45) and “PDSA Part 2” (3:45). (This was in the online format.)
Some content requires reading online and is not available in a downloaded format.
The index includes just three sections/letters: E, M, Q. Consider adding more to the index.

Other Issues and Comments:: Consider adding content on interprofessional education.
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