Leadership and Management in Nursing,9780135138670

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Leadership and Management in Nursing

by Grohar-Murray, Mary Ellen; DiCroce, Helen R.; Langan, Joanne C., Ph.D., RN

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4th

ISBN13:

9780135138670

ISBN10:

0135138671

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

3/11/2010

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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Leadership and Management in Nursing, Fourth Edition, offers an easy-to-read approach to leadership and management principles through case studies and student exercises. Completely updated in a new edition, this book utilizes widely accepted models of leadership, and recognizes time-related changes that have occurred in health care delivery and how nursing is practiced. With a heavy emphasis on the workplace, it covers legal and ethical issues, as well as improving human relationship skills. Additional topics include: The new health care system, Leadership theory, the interactive processes of leadership, and ethics An overview of organization and management Managers'responsibilities An introduction to the management of resources. For staff nurses.

UNIT 1: LEADERSHIP 1

1. The Health Care System: Environment for Nursing Leadership

2. Leadership Theory

3. Interactive Processes of Leadership: Communication and the Group Process

4. Decision Making and Conflict Management

5. The Ethical Responsibility of the Nurse Leader

UNIT 2: AN OVERVIEW OF ORGANIZATIONS AND MANAGEMENT

6. Organization and Management Theory

7. Overview of Nursing Management

8. Delegation: The Manager’s Tool

UNIT 3: SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MANAGER

9. Maintaining Standards

10. Motivation in the Work Setting

11. Monitoring and Improving Performance

12. Legal Issues in the Work Place

13. Managing Change

UNIT 4: MANAGING RESOURCES

14. Managing Resources: The Staff

15. Managing Resources: Time

16. Managing Resources: The Budget

17. Informatics in Nursing