Leadership roles and management functions in nursing : theory and application

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Author:

Marquis, Bessie L.

ISBN:

9780781795944

Personal Author:

Marquis, Bessie L.

Edition:

5th ed.

Publication Information:

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.

Physical Description:

xix, 723 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Decision making, problem solving, and critical thinking: requisites for successful leadership and management -- Introduction to management and management decision making -- Developing leadership -- Ethics, law, and advocacy -- Legal and legislative issues -- Patient, subordinate, and professional advocacy -- The planning hierarchy and strategic planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Career development -- Organizational structure -- Understanding organizational, political, and personal power -- Organizing patient care -- Preliminary staffing functions: employee recruitment, selection --

Placement, and indoctrination -- Meeting staff socialization and educational needs for team building -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication -- Delegation -- Managing conflict -- Understanding collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Problem employees: rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or mentally impaired.

Subject Term:

Nursing services -- Administration.

Leadership.

Nurse administrators.

Nursing, Supervisory.

Nursing -- organization & administration.

Added Author:

Huston, Carol Jorgensen.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004026634.html

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Summary

Now in its Fifth Edition, this foremost leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. More than 225 case studies and learning exercises promote critical thinking and interactive discussion.

This edition includes 46 new case studies in settings such as acute care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and community health. The book addresses timely nursing leadership and management issues, such as leadership development, staffing, delegation, ethics and law, organizational, political, and personal power, management and technology, and more. Web links and learning exercises appear in each chapter. An Instructor's CD-ROM includes a testbank and PowerPoint slides.