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Leadership and Nursing Care Management

  • 6th Edition - April 10, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Diane Huber
  • Language: English

Develop your management and leadership skills. Leadership and Nursing Care Management, 6th Edition maintains its AONE competencies, and features the most up-to-date, evidence… Read more

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Develop your management and leadership skills. Leadership and Nursing Care Management, 6th Edition maintains its AONE competencies, and features the most up-to-date, evidence-based blend of practice and theory related to the issues that impact nursing management and leadership today. A fresh, conversational writing style provides you with an easy-to-understand, in-depth look at these prevalent issues. Key topics include the nursing professional's role in law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, delegation, cultural considerations, care management, human resources, outcomes management, safe work environments, preventing employee injury, and time and stress management.

Key features

  • UNIQUE! Chapters divided according to AONE competencies
  • for nurse leaders, managers, and executives.
  • Research Notes in each chapter summarize relevant nursing leadership and management studies and highlight the practical applications of research findings.
  • Case Studies at the end of each chapter present real-world leadership and management situations and illustrate how key concepts can be applied to actual practice.
  • Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter present clinical situations followed by critical thinking questions that allow you to reflect on chapter content, critically analyze the information, and apply it to the situation.
  • Full-color design and photos makes content more vivid.

Table of contents

Part I: Leadership

1. Leadership and Management Principles

2. Change and Innovation

3. Organizational Climate and Culture

Part II: Professionalism

4. Managerial Decision Making

5. Managing Time and Stress

6. Legal and Ethical Issues

Part III: Communication and Relationship Building

7. Communication Leadership

8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups

9. Delegation in Nursing

10. Power and Conflict

11. Workplace Diversity

Part IV: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment

12. Organizational Structure

13. Decentralization and Shared Governance

14. Strategic Management

15. Professional Practice Models

16. Case and Population Case Management

17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse Leaders

18. Quality and Safety

19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes

Part V: Business Skills

20. Prevention of Workplace Violence

21. Confronting the Nursing Shortage

22. Staffing and Scheduling

23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing

24. Performance Appraisal

25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness

26. Data Management and Clinical Informatics

27. Marketing

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 26, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Diane Huber

Professor Emeritus Diane Huber works at the College of Nursing and College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus College of Nursing and College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA