The Career Handoff: A Healthcare Leader's Guide to Knowledge & Wisdom Transfer Across Generations / Edition 1

by Kathy Malloch

Overview

Within the business community, succession planning plays a key role in an organization's strategic initiatives. Within healthcare, however, it has been largely overlooked. Without careful planning, healthcare organizations risk a catastrophic gap in leadership continuity that could jeopardize operational cost management, quality of care improvement, and regulatory compliance. How do you close that dangerous gap? Thoughtful succession planning. The Career Handoff helps healthcare and nurse leaders proactively preserve and pass on their valuable knowledge and wisdom to new generations. With an approach that emphasizes mentoring and sustainability of expertise, this book aims to facilitate smooth transitions and the continued viability of healthcare organizations. Authors Kathy Malloch and Tim Porter-O'Grady share their extensive knowledge through guidelines, stories, and lived experiences. For those with retirement on the horizon-and their potential successors-The Career Handoff offers insightful guidance and succession planning strategies that position healthcare organizations for a sustainable, successful future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940446509
Publisher:	Sigma Theta Tau International
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

• Foreword: Patricia Benner
• Chapter 1. Intentional sharing of wisdom: Paradoxical challenges from the heart and mind
• Chapter 2. Handing Off What is Valuable and Letting Go of What is Not
• Chapter 3. Essential Business Knowledge: Sharing Secrets of Success
• Chapter 4. Essential Business Relationships: Documenting Value for the Ages
• Chapter 5. The art and science of receiving knowledge
• Chapter 6. Connecting to the Future: Nurturing Relationships and Enhancing Generational
• Chapter 7. Lifelong Learning and Giving
• Chapter 8. Reflection
• End Note: Roxanne Spitzer
  

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Susan G Wiers, DNP (Michigan State University College of Nursing)
Description: This book provides theoretical and practical guidance for the transmission of wisdom and knowledge of experienced nurse clinicians and leaders to the next generation.
Purpose: The goal is to share the authors' and contributors' insights into the intentional sharing of knowledge and wisdom, thus ensuring that seasoned nurse clinicians and leaders fulfill their professional obligation to "pay it forward" and "leave nursing better" than they "found it."
Audience: The intended audience is primarily those who are in a position to mentor, but the book is also appropriate for mentees and others seeking professional enrichment. It is relevant for nurse clinicians, educators, and administrators and also would be potentially helpful to those outside of the nursing profession who are interested in mentoring and professional development. The authors and contributors are highly esteemed experts in nursing and leadership who bring a wealth of knowledge and insight to this book.
Features: The wide range of topics include, but are not limited to, sharing knowledge, wisdom, and insight, lifelong learning, generational differences in values and communication, learning styles and forms of intelligence, personality types, keys to mentorship, essential business knowledge, paying it forward, and nursing advocacy. Each chapter is preceded by clear objectives and includes scholarly discussions about the topic as well personal exemplars. A section at the end of each chapter supplies questions designed for thoughtful reflection about how the concepts apply to the reader.
Assessment: The authors have successfully compiled a high-quality book on nursing professionalism and leadership. It is a logical sequel to their prior publications in their attempt to assure their work will continue and thrive through the efforts of others. The relevance of this book cannot be overstated in the context of an aging nursing workforce and the looming loss of leadership to retirement. Without formal processes for the transfer of knowledge and wisdom from one generation to the next, healthcare organizations and the profession of nursing will suffer.

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