Leadership and nursing care management
"Thoroughly updated and revised, this authoritative resource features an outstanding, research-based blend of practice and theory related to issues that impact nursing management and leadership today. It goes beyond the basics to equip you with the knowledge and expertise needed to excel in any supervisory or management role."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2006
Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia, ©2006
xxi, 922 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
9781416001683, 1416001689
264058124
pt. I. Leadership and care management overview
1. Leadership principles
Leadership overview
Definitions
Background
Leadership : five interwoven aspects
Leadership theories
Characteristics of leadership : trait theories
Leadership styles
Attitudinal theories
Situational theories
Contemporary leadership research
Effective leadership
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
2. Management principles
Leadership and management differentiated
Definitions
Background : the management process
Management in nursing practice
Management in organizations
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends. pt. II. The professional's role
3. Professional practice and career development
Definitions
Nursing as a profession
Professionalization
Careers
Career goals
Socialization
Job tenure
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
4. Managing time and stress
Time management
Stress management
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
5. Health policy, health, and nursing
Definitions
Factors driving public policy making
Public policy-making process
Policy formulation
Policy implementation phase
Policy modification phase
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
6. Critical thinking skills
Definitions
Background
Problem solving
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
7. Decision-making skills
Definitions
Background
Decision-making situations
Administrative and organizational decision making
Decision styles
The decision process
Decision-making strategies
Scenario planning
Computerized decision making
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends. pt. III. Health care organizations and systems
8. The health care system
Definitions
Evolution of the health care system
Components of the health care system
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
Conclusions
9. Organizational climate and culture
Definitions
Background
Climate and culture differentiated
Research
Nursing practice
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
10. Mission statements, policies, and procedures
Definitions
Background
Organizational mission statements
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
11. Organizational structure
Definitions
Division of labor
Types of structures
The organizational chart
Centralization and decentralization of power
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
12. Decentralization and shared governance
Definitions
Management and centralization and decentralization
Shared governance
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
13. Data management and informatics
Definitions
Nursing's data needs
Nursing informatics
Electronic health record
Standardized clinical terminology
Nursing management minimum data set
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
14. Strategic management
Definitions
Strategic planning process
Elements of a strategic plan
Implementation of the strategic plan
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
15. Marketing
Definitions
Background
Marketing strategy
The marketing process : implementing strategy
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends. pt. IV. Care management
16. Models of care delivery
Definitions
Background
Six major types of delivery systems
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
17. Case management
Definitions
Background
Case management implementation
Development of case management programs
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
18. Disease management
Definitions
Background
Population-based program planning
Population-based risk assessment
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
19. Patient and family cultural values
Government standards
Definitions
Backgrounds
Cultural awareness
Cultural assessment
Leadership and management implications
Caring for culturally diverse clients
Strategies for cultural competence
Current issues and trends
20. Communication, persuasion, and negotiation
Definitions
Background
Negotiation
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
21. All-hazards disaster preparedness
Transitioning theory into practice for all-hazards preparedness
Definitions
Getting started : first steps
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
22. Evidence-based practice : strategies for nursing leaders
Definitions
Models
Topic selection
Communicating the practice change
Users of the practice guideline
Leadership roles in promoting practice
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
Conclusion. pt. V. Human resources management
23. Motivation
Definitions
Motivation theory
Research findings on motivation in nursing
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
24. Power and conflict
Power
Definitions
Authority and influence
Sources of power
The power of the subunit
Leadership and management implications
Power and leadership
Conflict
Definitions
Views of conflict
Levels of conflict
Types of conflict
Stage models of conflict
Conflict management
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
25. Delegation
Definitions
Background
Process of delegation
Delegation pitfalls and solutions
Legal aspects of delegation and supervision
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
26. Team building and working with effective groups
Definitions
Background
Why people join groups
Advantages of groups
Disadvantages of groups
Group decision making
Work teams
Committees
Effective meetings
Constructive group members
Disruptive group members
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
27. Confronting the nursing shortage
Definitions
Background
Current issues and trends
Leadership and management implications
28. Cultural and generational workforce diversity
Definitions
Background
Strategies for cultural competence
Health disparities
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
29. Staff recruitment and retention
Definitions
The nursing shortage
International recruitment
American Nurses Association's call to action
Recruitment
Recruitment of professional nurses
Retention : new graduates and qualified experienced registered nurses
Turnover : cost and management strategies
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
30. Performance appraisal
Definitions
Performance appraisal process
Alternative types of performance appraisal
Reliability and validity in measurement
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
31. Prevention of workplace violence
Definitions
Regulatory background
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
32. Collective bargaining
Definitions
Background
Collective bargaining
State labor laws
History of unionization of nurses
Setting the scenario
Nursing as a profession
Registered nurses : who are they?
Negotiations
Points of view
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
33. Staffing and scheduling
Definitions
Background
Staffing and scheduling decisions
Staffing methods
Steps in developing a staffing pattern
Scheduling
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
34. Legal and ethical issues
Legal aspects
Definitions
Law and the nurse manager
Leadership and management implications
Ethical issues
Ethical decision making in clinical health care
The clash between clinical and organizational ethics
Current research
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends. pt. VI. Fiscal management
35. Financial management
Definitions
Background
Health care financial strategies
Leadership and management implications
Ethical and legal issues
36. Budgeting
Definitions
Background
The budgetary process
Leadership and management implications
Cost awareness
Current issues and trends
37. Productivity and costing out nursing
Definitions
Background
Production process
Cost-analysis strategy
Leadership and management implications
Costing out nursing services
Current issues and trends. pt. VII. Outcomes management
38. Change and innovation
Definitions
Background
Planned change
The planned change process
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
39. Quality improvement and health care safety
Definitions
Health care quality in the twenty-first century
Collaboration and health care quality as nursing imperatives
Industrial models of quality
Standards of quality
Emerging models of health care quality assessment and management
Costs associated with poor health care quality
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
Health care safety and health care risk management
40. Measuring and managing outcomes
Definitions
Background
Development of outcomes measurement
Leadership and management implications
Current issues and trends
Glossary