Title:
Management and leadership for nurse administrators
Author:
Roussel, Linda.
ISBN:
9780763757144
Edition:
5th ed.
Publication Information:
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Pub., c2009 [i.e. 2008].
Physical Description:
xi, 699 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Contents:
Trends shaping nursing leadership -- Concepts and theories guiding professional practice -- Emotionally intelligent leadership in nursing and healthcare organizations -- Ethical nurse leadership -- Change, complexity, and creativity -- Collaborative decision-making and communication : skills and practices -- Organizational structure and analysis -- Human resources : managing a culturally diverse workforce -- Strategic planning and management -- Staffing and scheduling -- Budgeting principles for nurse managers -- Managing the process of care delivery -- Information management and technology -- Health policy, legal, and regulatory issues -- Risk management and legal issues -- Tools for evaluating management systems and care delivery processes -- Quality improvement -- Performance appraisal -- The professional nursing staff educator -- Building a portfolio for academic and clinical partnership -- Transformational leadership and evidence-based management -- Creating a culture of magnetism.
Abstract:
"This comprehensive text provides management concepts and theories, giving professional administrators and students theoretical and practical knowledge. Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators provides a foundation for nurse managers and nurse executives as well as students with major management and administrative content including planning, organizing, leadership, directing, and evaluating." "The Fifth Edition has been revised and updated with additional content on complex adaptive symptoms, quality improvement and patient safety, and evidence-based practice. It also has new chapters on academic and clinical partnership, trends shaping nursing leadership, implications for education and practice, creating a culture of magnetism, information management and technology, risk management and legal issues, and building a portfolio for academic and clinical partnerships."--BOOK JACKET.