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Nursing leadership and management / edited by Patricia Kelly Vana, Heather Crawford

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013Edition: Ist Canadian editionDescription: xxiii, 496 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Kelley's Nursing leadership and management
Uniform titles:
  • Nursing leadership & management
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kelly's nursing leadership and managementLOC classification:
  • RT89  .N8
Contents:
Nursing Leadership and Management -- The Health Care Environment -- Nursing Leadership and Management in a Historical Context -- Organization of Patient Care in High Reliability Health Care Organizations -- Organization and Staffing of Patient Care at the Unit Level -- Healthcare Economics -- Hospital, Department, and Unit Budgets -- Patient-Centered Care -- Patient and Health Care Education -- Evidence-Based Practice -- Searching for the Evidence -- Quality Improvement -- Improving Quality at the Unit Level -- Safety, Patient and Health Care Team -- Nursing Informatics -- Inter-Professional Teamwork and Collaboration -- Members of the Inter-Professional Team -- Delegation, Assignment, and Supervision of Patient Care -- Time Management and Setting Priorities -- Change, Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning -- Power and Politics -- Legal Aspects of Nursing -- Ethical Aspects of Nursing -- Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality -- NCLEX Preparation -- Entry into the Profession-Your First Job -- Career Planning and Achieving Balance -- Healthy Living : Balancing Personal and Professional Balance -- Nursing Career Opportunities.
Summary: "Nurses are committed to safe, high quality, patient-centered care. Nurses demonstrate Leadership and Management skills in the provision of patient care both interdependently with physicians and other members of the inter-professional team, and independently as nursing professionals. Vari-ous theories about Leadership and Management have been developed, as discussed in Chapter 1 of this text. These Leadership and Management theories are utilized by nurses in their personal life and from Day 1 of their clinical nursing practice. Millions of Americans turn to nurses for delivery of primary health care services, health care education. and health advice and counsel-ing. The Gallup Poll (2018) has consistently found the nursing profession to be ranked as the Number One trusted profession in its annual polls of Americans. Suzanne Gordon is a journalist who has been writing about nursing issues since 1986"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nursing leadership & management / is the 1st Canadian ed. edited by Patricia Kelly, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nursing Leadership and Management -- The Health Care Environment -- Nursing Leadership and Management in a Historical Context -- Organization of Patient Care in High Reliability Health Care Organizations -- Organization and Staffing of Patient Care at the Unit Level -- Healthcare Economics -- Hospital, Department, and Unit Budgets -- Patient-Centered Care -- Patient and Health Care Education -- Evidence-Based Practice -- Searching for the Evidence -- Quality Improvement -- Improving Quality at the Unit Level -- Safety, Patient and Health Care Team -- Nursing Informatics -- Inter-Professional Teamwork and Collaboration -- Members of the Inter-Professional Team -- Delegation, Assignment, and Supervision of Patient Care -- Time Management and Setting Priorities -- Change, Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning -- Power and Politics -- Legal Aspects of Nursing -- Ethical Aspects of Nursing -- Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality -- NCLEX Preparation -- Entry into the Profession-Your First Job -- Career Planning and Achieving Balance -- Healthy Living : Balancing Personal and Professional Balance -- Nursing Career Opportunities.

"Nurses are committed to safe, high quality, patient-centered care. Nurses demonstrate Leadership and Management skills in the provision of patient care both interdependently with physicians and other members of the inter-professional team, and independently as nursing professionals. Vari-ous theories about Leadership and Management have been developed, as discussed in Chapter 1 of this text. These Leadership and Management theories are utilized by nurses in their personal life and from Day 1 of their clinical nursing practice. Millions of Americans turn to nurses for delivery of primary health care services, health care education. and health advice and counsel-ing. The Gallup Poll (2018) has consistently found the nursing profession to be ranked as the Number One trusted profession in its annual polls of Americans. Suzanne Gordon is a journalist who has been writing about nursing issues since 1986"-- Provided by publisher.

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