Nurse Management & Executive Practice

Get ready to lead large health systems on the corporate level, or to serve on hospital and other health boards and commissions, with the information-packed guidance and wisdom of Nurse Management and Executive Practice.
 
Let a team of nursing management experts guide you on the full range of vital topics, including management styles, research methodology, current fiscal best practices, and technology tips. Offering clear definitions and examples of the roles, skills, and responsibilities of the nurse manager or executive, this authoritative book solidly prepares you to pass the nurse executive certification examinations.

Use this expert, evidence-based guide to build a strong foundation as a nurse manager or executive:

• Ideal preparation for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) exams—offers back-of-the-book nursing executive certification prep questions, plus research questions that support critical thinking skills
• Excellent pre-study for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree
• Offers definitions and insights on proven management and leadership models, skills, responsibilities, and processes to improve patient outcomes, as exemplified by the ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program
• Provides case examples that demonstrate theories and concepts in the text
• Offers seasoned guidance on career planning and succession planning
• Offers in-depth, real-world guidance on:
  • Leadership responsibilities—including leadership theories, organizational theories, governance, business models, strategic partnerships, and a range of nursing care models
  • Human capital management
  • Nursing research and evidence-based practice—including nursing theory
  • Data analysis
  • Legal and ethical issues in healthcare and nursing
  • Strategic planning and management—including setting objectives, strategic analysis, long-range planning, and management models and techniques
  • Communication skills, components, and processes
  • Assessment of communities
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Informatics and innovation
  • Quality improvement, patient safety, and risk management
  • Systems thinking
  • Cultural and intergenerational diversity
  • Budgeting and financial management
  • Healthcare policy
• Offers end-of-chapter case study and questions that assist you in applying the principles or skills demonstrated in the case study

 
 About the Clinical Editor
Al Rundio is Associate Dean for Academic Nursing, Chief Academic Nursing Officer, and Clinical Professor of Nursing at Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also a Hospital Trustee at Inspira Health System in Mullica Hill, New Jersey.
 

CHAPTER 1 Leadership Responsibilities
Al Rundio and Kathleen Bradbury-Golas
CHAPTER 2 Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Risk Management
Frances H. Cornelius
CHAPTER 3 Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Al Rundio
CHAPTER 4 Systems Thinking
William J. Lorman
CHAPTER 5 Strategic Management
William J. Lorman
CHAPTER 6 Human Resources
William J. Lorman
CHAPTER 7 Cultural and Intergenerational Diversity
Virginia “Ginny” Wilson
CHAPTER 8 Ethics in Health Care and Nursing
Al Rundio
CHAPTER 9 Budgeting and Financial Management
Al Rundio
CHAPTER 10 Health Policy
Al Rundio
CHAPTER 11 Career Planning
William J. Lorman
CHAPTER 12 Succession Planning
Virginia “Ginny” Wilson
CHAPTER 13 Technology Tips for the Nurse Executive
Mary Gallagher Gordon
APPENDIX A Nursing Executive: Certification Prep Questions
APPENDIX B Research Questions