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Innovative Decision Making in Healthcare

A Case-Based Approach to Nursing Leadership in Academic and Clinical Settings

  • Uses case-study approach to illustrate leadership strategies and models

  • Includes features such as “key points to consider,” critical thinking questions to stimulate thinking about each approach/model, and descriptions/analysis of why some approaches are not effective and why

  • Includes discussion of why a “traditional” or standard approach to resolving the issue/problem is not as likely to be as effective as the tools used in the book

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Why Red Team?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Nursing Leadership in a Segmented Discipline

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 3-12
    3. Why Red Teaming Is a Better Way

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 13-19
    4. Applying Red Team Tools

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 47-58
  3. Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Budget Cuts at Green University

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 61-70
    3. Horizontal Violence in Pink Hospital

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 71-76
    4. Strategic Planning at Yellow Institute

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 77-83
    5. Who Is in Charge at Orange School of Nursing

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 85-91
    6. Conflict Between the Front- and Back-Office Staff at Purple Clinic

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 93-100
    7. Hierarchy at Blue University School of Nursing

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 101-106
    8. What to Build at Turquoise University School of Nursing

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 107-119
    9. Merging Brown Visiting Nurse Association with Gray Health System

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 121-127
  4. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Conclusion

      • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff
      Pages 131-133
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 135-138

About this book

Large, successful organizations only transform after failure. If everything is going well, there is a tendency not to challenge methods. It is only once things have gone radically wrong that a successful organization starts to reexamine their methods and culture. This book is about organizational leadership, but provides a unique spin to promoting innovation, inclusion and transparency among employees.

It examines co-author Steven Rotkoff’s experiences as a retired US Army Colonel and Red Team strategies used by the military and the corporate world to make better decisions and improve organizational culture and applies them to nursing in both clinical and academic settings. Centering cases derived from US-based academic  and clinical settings, the book discusses how and why some strategies do and others don’t work and examines how these military and corporate strategies apply effectively to nursing settings. Turning a lot of the available literature on its head, this book offers new models and methods to foster better conversations, particularly between managers and staff.

Nursing has changed in both academic and clinical settings. Just as military and corporate organizations have had to change their organizational behavior and leadership styles and methods to meet the needs of today’s employees and consumers, the nursing profession must change to meet the needs of faculty, an inter-professional health care environment and our increasingly inclusive and diverse environments.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Nursing, Mansfield Kaseman Health Clinic, Rockville, USA

    Leslie Neal-Boylan

  • Lansing, USA

    Steven Rotkoff

About the authors

Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, APRN, CRRN, FAAN, FARN

Mansfield Kaseman Health Clinic
Rockville, MD


Col. (Ret.) Steven Rotkoff



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovative Decision Making in Healthcare

  • Book Subtitle: A Case-Based Approach to Nursing Leadership in Academic and Clinical Settings

  • Authors: Leslie Neal-Boylan, Steven Rotkoff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72648-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72647-8Published: 26 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72648-5Published: 25 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 138

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, Health Care Management, Nursing

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eBook USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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