Leadership roles and management functions in nursing theory and application /

"Employing an experiential, active learning approach to leadership and management, the 10th Edition of this best-selling text equips students for success in the ever-changing, increasingly challenging professional nursing workforce. Current, comprehensive coverage details the responsibilities o...

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Main Author: Marquis, Bessie L.,
Other Authors: Huston, Carol Jorgensen,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, [2021]
Physical Description: xxvii, 747 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Edition: Tenth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning: requisites for successful leadership and management
  • Classical views of leadership and management
  • Twenty-first-century thinking about leadership and management
  • Ethical issues
  • Legal and legislative issues
  • Patient, subordinate, workplace, and professional advocacy
  • Organizational planning
  • Planned change
  • Time management
  • Fiscal planning and health-care reimbursement
  • Career planning and development in nursing
  • Organizational structure
  • Organizational, political, and personal power
  • Organizing patient care
  • Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination
  • Educating and socializing staff in a learning organization
  • Staffing needs and scheduling policies
  • Creating a motivating climate
  • Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication in team building
  • Delegation
  • Conflict, workplace violence, and negotiation
  • Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws
  • Quality control in creating a culture of patient safety
  • Performance appraisal
  • Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired.