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Leading and managing are essential skills for all nurses Lin today's rapidly changing health care arena. New graduates find themselves man grog unlicensed assistive personnel, and experienced nurses are managing groups of health care providers from a variety of disciplines and educational levels. Declining revenues and increasing costs mandate that every organization use its resources efficiently. Thus, nurses are challenged to manage effectively with fewer resources. Never has the information presented in this textbook been needed more.
Effective Leadership & Management in Nursing, Sixth Edition, can help both student nurses and those with practice experience acquire the skills needed to ensure success in today's dynamic health care environment.
FEATURES OF THE SIXTH EDITION
Effective Leadership & Management in Nursing has made a significant and lasting contribution to the education of nurses and nurse managers in its five previous editions. Used worldwide, this award-winning textbook is now offered in an updated and revised edition to reflect changes in the current health care system and in response to suggestions from the book's users. The Sixth Edition builds upon the work of previous contributors to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive learning package for today's busy students and professionals.
Student-Friendly Learning Tools
Designed with the adult learner in mind, the book focuses on the application of the content presented with specific guidelines for implementing the skills included. To further illustrate and emphasize key points, each chapter in this edition includes these features:
- Chapter outline and preview
- New MediaLink boxes in each chapter introduce readers to resources and activities on the Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/sullivan-decker. MediaLink tabs in the chapter margins encourage students to use the website activities.
- Key terms defined on the pages where they first appear
- What You Know Now lists at end of each chapter
- A list of "tools," or key behaviors, for using the skills presented in the chapter
- Case Studies with Manager's Checklist to demonstrate application of content
- Questions to Challenge You to help-students relate concepts to their experience
- Up-to-date references