Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Now in its Fifth Edition, this foremost leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. More than 225 case studies and learning exercises promote critical thinking and interactive discussion.
This edition includes 46 new case studies in settings such as acute care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and community health. The book addresses timely nursing leadership and management issues, such as leadership development, staffing, delegation, ethics and law, organizational, political, and personal power, management and technology, and more. Web links and learning exercises appear in each chapter. An Instructor's CD-ROM includes a testbank and PowerPoint slides.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: A New Approach to Leadership and Management
- Decision making, problem solving, and critical thinking: Requisites for successful leadership and management
- Introduction to Management and Management Decision Making
- Developing Leadership
Unit 2: Foundation for Effective Leadership and Management
- Ethics, Law, and Advocacy
- Legal and Legislative Issues
- Patient Subordinate and Professional Advocacy
Unit 3: Roles and Functions in Planning
- The Planning Hierarchy and Strategic Planning
- Planned Change
- Time Management
- Fiscal Planning
- Career Development
Unit 4: Roles and Functions in Organizing
- Organizational Structure
- Understanding Organizational, Political, and Personal Power
- Organizing Patient Care
Unit 5: Roles and Functions in Staffing
- Preliminary Staffing Functions: Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement and Indoctrination
- Meeting Staff Socialization and Educational Needs for Team Building
- Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Unit 6: Roles and Functions in Directing
- Creating a Motivating Climate
- Organizational, Interpersonal, and Group Communication
- Delegation
- Managing Conflict
- Understanding Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
Unit 7: Roles and Functions in Controlling
- Quality Control
- Performance Appraisal
- Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees and the Chemically or Mentally Impaired