Clinical Leadership for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners

This groundbreaking text focuses on the practical knowledge and skills that both physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) need to be effective health care leaders in a multidisciplinary environment. Written by a recognized expert in physician assistant leadership, this engaging text helps PA and NP professionals--increasingly called upon to lead in a variety of clinical and administrative environments--to navigate the unique challenges they encounter.

With an emphasis on concrete application of leadership principles, this text highlights interprofessional communication and the skills associated with becoming an effective leader in a variety of health care settings. Thought-provoking case studies provide real-world application of concepts throughout the text. Useful exercises throughout the chapters and appendices bring further clarity to the theoretical topics examined in the book.

Key Features:

• Focuses on leadership for NPs and PAs in team-based health care--the only text to do so
• Emphasizes interprofessional, multidisciplinary interactions, often at the level of direct patient care
• Addresses important issues including power and influence, leadership traits and behaviors, followership, change strategies, burnout, ethical considerations, and more
• Provides chapter-opening questions to guide the learner in discovering effective principles of leadership
• Includes chapter summaries and leadership exercises to provide context to the concepts discussed, as well as useful online worksheets
• Applies real-world scenarios to key leadership concepts through thought-provoking case studies

Michael J. Huckabee, PhD, MPAS, PA-C, is the founding director of the Mayo Clinic Physician Assistant Program and associate professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He has over 35 years of clinical practice as a physician assistant (PA), primarily in rural Nebraska. Dr. Huckabee has served as director of PA education at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and Union College in Lincoln, NE, and was a faculty member prior to that at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Over the course of his career, he has managed federally funded projects nearing $3 million that continue to support health care for underserved populations. Dr. Huckabee is widely published on several health care and educational subjects and is well known in the leadership field, speaking at conferences on topics such as Effective Leadership Strategies and Influencing Progress by Servant Leadership. Dr. Huckabee is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and has served as Abstracts and Brief Reports editor for the Journal of Physician Assistant Education.