Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing (9^th Ed.)

For courses in nursing leadership and management in programs, including baccalaureate degrees in generic and BSN completion, and graduate-level nursing programs.
The essential information and key skills nurses need to become effective managers and leaders
More than ever before, today?s rapidly changing, volatile healthcare environment demands highly developed management skills and superb leadership. Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing will help both practicing and student nurses manage successfully today, as well as into the future. This book combines practicality with conceptual understanding, tapping expertise of contributors from many relevant disciplines, especially healthcare management professionals. Updated to reflect the current state of healthcare, the 9th edition offers new or expanded coverage of the Affordable Care Act; evolving models of healthcare; cultural and gender diversity; quality management; emotional leadership; social media; harassing, bullying, and lack of civility in healthcare; emergency preparedness for terrorism, disasters, and mass shootings; and prevention of workplace violence. Two new chapters round out this award-winning text: ?Understanding Legal and Ethical Issues? and ?Imagining the Future.?
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Part I: Understanding Nursing Management and Organizations

1. Introducing Nursing Management

2. Designing Organizations

3. Delivering Nursing Care

4. Leading, Managing, and Following

5. Initiating and Managing Change

6. Managing and Improving Quality

7. Understanding Legal and Ethical Issues

8. Understanding Power and Politics

Part 2: Learning Key Skills in Nursing Management

9. Thinking Critically, Making Decisions, Solving Problems

10. Communicating Effectively

11. Delegating Successfully

12. Building and Managing Teams

13. Handling Conflict

14. Managing Time

Part 3: Managing Resources

15. Budgeting and Managing Fiscal Resources

16. Recruiting and Selecting Staff

17. Staffing and Scheduling

18. Motivating and Developing Staff

19. Evaluating Staff Performance

20. Feedback and Coaching, Disciplining, and Terminating Staff

21. Managing Absenteeism, Reducing Turnover, Retaining Staff

22. Dealing with Disruptive Staff Problem

23. Preparing for Emergencies

24. Preventing Workplace Violence

25. Handling Collective Bargaining Issues

Part 4: Taking Care of Yourself

26. Managing Stress

27. Advancing Your Career

Part 5: Looking to the Future

28. Imagining the Future

• Helps students understand how they fit as nurse managers in today’s healthcare institutions and environments, explaining how organizations are designed; how nursing care is delivered; key concepts of leadership and management; how to initiate and manage change; providing quality care; and how to use power and politics to provide quality care.

• NEW: Encompasses the myriad of legal and ethical issues confronting nurses and managers today in a new Chapter 7, “Understanding Legal and Ethical Issues.”

• Covers all the key skills nurses need to lead, including critical thinking; decision-making; problem-solving; communicating with a variety of individuals and groups; delegating; working in teams; resolving conflicts; and managing time.

• Prepares readers to manage limited resources more effectively presenting up-to-date coverage of budgeting fiscal resources; recruiting and selecting staff; handling staffing and scheduling; motivating and developing staff; evaluating staff performance; coaching, disciplining and terminating staff; managing absenteeism; reducing turnover and retaining staff; handling personnel problems, especially harassing and bullying behaviors; and participating in the collective bargaining process.

• Helps nurse managers take care of themselves and build their careers with invaluable coverage of stress management and how to achieve the goals that lead to promotion.

• NEW: Offers advice on looking to the future with a new Chapter 28, “Imagining the Future,” that helps readers contemplate the possibilities inherent in a fast-evolving environment–ways to consider the future, societal predictions about the future, the future of healthcare, and the future of nursing.

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