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Summary

Preparing every nurse to be a leader

Leadership and Management for Nurses: Core Competencies for Quality Care examines critical issues in healthcare delivery and the leadership roles every nurse must play. The text focuses on five core competencies for healthcare professions: provide patient-centered care, work in interprofessional teams, employ evidence-based practice, apply quality improvement, and utilize informatics. Engaging features, such as an evolving case study, hone students' clinical reasoning skills and prepare them to enter managerial roles. Full of extensive new content and exercises, the 4th Edition uses a framework based on the quality initiative of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Medicine.

For courses in leadership and management in nursing.

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Author Biography

Anita Finkelman, MSN, RN, is a visiting lecturer for the Faculties of Health Sciences, Nursing Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. Recently she was visiting faculty at Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Nursing for four years and served as chair for the School of Nursing Accreditation Task Force. Her past positions include assistant professor of nursing at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, where she taught undergraduate and graduate nursing research online and was course coordinator for undergraduate nursing research. She was awarded a VANA Program grant to develop an undergraduate long-term experience at the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City, developing a summer internship and a postgraduate nurse residency program. At the University of Cincinnati, she was associate professor, clinical nursing, and also director of the undergraduate program.

She received a BSN from TCU, Fort Worth, Texas, and a master’s degree in psychiatric/mental health nursing, clinical nurse specialist, from Yale University. She also completed postmaster’s graduate work in healthcare policy and administration at George Washington University, and additional health policy work as a fellow of the Health Policy Institute, George Mason University.

Ms. Finkelman has 40 years of nursing experience, including clinical, educational, and administrative positions, and extensive experience developing distance learning programs and online products related to simulation learning and distance education for publishers and healthcare organizations and for curriculum review and revision. She served as director of staff education for two acute care hospitals and director of a large continuing education program at the University of Cincinnati. Her consulting projects have focused on distance education, curriculum, teaching practices, nursing education accreditation, healthcare interprofessional education, health policy, and healthcare administration.

Ms. Finkelman has authored many books, chapters, and journal articles, and served on editorial boards. She has lectured on administration, healthcare education, health policy, continuing education, and psychiatric/mental health nursing, both nationally and internationally. In addition to this text, her other recent books are Professional Nursing Concepts (4th ed.) (2019) Jones & Bartlett Learning; Teaching IOM/HMD: Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports For Nursing Education (Vol. I and II) (4th ed.) (2017) American Nurses Association; and Case Management for Nurses (2011) Pearson Education. The IOM book and the Professional Concepts book have both won publishing awards.

SECTION I: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
1. Conceptual Base for Leadership and Management
2. Healthcare Policy, Legal Issues, and Ethics in Healthcare Delivery
3. Operational and Strategic Planning: Change, Innovation, and Decision Making
4. Organizational Structure for Effective Care Delivery
5. Healthcare Economics
6. Acute Care Organizations: An Example of a Healthcare Organization
7. Public/Community Health: Expansion and Need for Leadership
8. Recruitment and Retention: Meeting Staffing Requirements

SECTION II: HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS CORE COMPETENCIES
9. Managing Patient-Centered Care
10. Diversity and Disparities in Health Care
11. Consumers and Nurses
12. Developing Interprofessional and Intraprofessional Teams
13. Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination, and Conflict Resolution
14. Effective Staff Communication and Working Relationships
15. Delegation for Effective Outcomes
16. Evidence-Based Practice and Management
17. Healthcare Quality: A Critical Health Policy Issue
18. Implementing Healthcare Quality Improvement
19. Healthcare Informatics and Technology

SECTION III: CURRENT ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS
20. Staff Education to Meet Health Professions Core Competencies and Improve Care

Appendices
A. AONE Nurse Executive Competencies
B. AONE Nurse Manager Competencies

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