Help students prepare for the NCLEX (R) and their transition to
practice! Organized around the issues in today's constantly
changing healthcare environment Leading and Managing in Nursing,
7th Edition, offers an innovative approach to leading and managing
by merging theory, research, and practical application. This
cutting-edge text includes coverage of patient safety, consumer
relationships, cultural diversity, resource management delegation,
and communication. In addition, it provides just the right amount
of information to equip students with the tools they need to master
leadership and management, which will better prepare them for
clinical practice. UPDATED! Fresh content and references related to
conflict (mediation and arbitration), personal/personnel issues,
violence and incivility, and delegation included in their
respective chapters. Separate chapters on key topic areas such as
cultural diversity, consumer relationships, delegation, managing
information and technology, legal and ethical issues, and many
more. Eye-catching full-color design helps engage and guide
students through each chapter. UNIQUE! Each chapter opens with The
Challenge, where practicing nurse leaders/managers offer their
real-world views of a concern related in the chapter, encouraging
students to think about how they would handle the situation.
UNIQUE! The Solution closes each chapter with an effective method
to handle the real-life situation presented in The Challenge, and
demonstrates the ins and outs of problem solving in practice. The
Evidence boxes in each chapter summarize relevant concepts and
research from nursing/business/medicine literature. Theory boxes
highlight and summarize pertinent theoretical concepts related to
chapter content. UPDATED! Chapter 2, Clinical Safety: The Core of
Leading, Managing, and Following, features the latest guidelines
for ensuring patient safety, QSEN updates and it will also include
some new tools to help with assessing/managing patient safety in
the hospital setting UPDATED! Chapter 16, The Impact of Technology,
includes information on future trends such as Health Information
Exchange (HIE), data warehouses with predictive analytics, and
information on decision support systems and their impact on patient
care. UPDATED! Chapter 12, Care Delivery Strategies, covers
different nursing care delivery models used to organize care in a
variety of healthcare organizations. UPDATED! Chapter 14, Workforce
Engagement through Collective Action and Governance, provides
information on how to assess work environments through assessing
organizational and governance characteristics, nurse
empowerment/engagement strategies, and a variety of collective
action and bargaining strategies that can shape nurses' practice.
NEW! Chapter 6 - Being an Effective Follower includes information
on the evolution and importance of "followership" within nursing.
NEW! Chapter organization with new standard headings throughout
clearly and effectively presents the material, and provides a more
effective end of chapter pedagogy.
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