Leadership And Management in Nursing - Softcover

Finkelman, Anita Ward

9780131138698: Leadership And Management in Nursing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131138693 ISBN 13: 9780131138698

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

This is a comprehensive resource on leadership and management specific to nursing professionals. Topics include details of the leadership and management skills need to perform professionally in today's nursing profession. Included are modules of "content chunks" to assist in streamlining the material. Activities interwoven within the chapters and on the corresponding website encourage further research and critical thinking. Also found on the website are: video and audio examples and exercises, log on (internet-based exercises with student searching a particular topic); working together- team-based exercises, case applications and in the news - thinking about the future activities. Nursing Professionals and Nursing Students.

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From the Back Cover:

Anita Finkelman’s Leadership in Management in Nursing, 2e takes a unique approach; its perspective concentrates on what nurses and nurse managers need to know in order to ensure that care is patient-centered and provided by effective care teams. The second edition of Leadership and Management in Nursing features a greater emphasis on the importance of the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations and their impact on nurses and nursing education. This new edition is split into three sections; the first focuses on basic leadership and management concepts. The second focuses on the five core competencies in relationship to leadership and management; and the final section contains content on how to facilitate professional success.

New to this Edition:

Each chapter includes Institute of Medicine content and recommendations to provide quality care in all health-care settings
New and updated features–including end-of-chapter ‘wrap-ups’, critical thinking activities, references, and internet resources
New chapter that focuses on the core competency of evidence-based practice

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

MyNursingKit (www.mynursingkit.com) Teaching and learning resources for students and faculty, offering review questions, student activities, and much more.

About the Author:

ANITA FINKELMAN, MSN, RN, is founder and president of Resources for Excellence, a health care consulting firm. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor/Clinical Nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. She has served as Director of Continuing Education and Associate Professor/Clinical Nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. Her 30 years of experience in psychiatric nursing includes clinical, educational, and administrative roles in a variety of health care settings. In her administrative positions, she has had experience with managed care and has developed and taught a course on managed care. Ms. Finkelman has authored many books and lectured frequently on administration, managed care, continuing education, and psychiatric nursing, both nationally and internationally, and has also been active in many professional organizations such as the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau. She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee and Editorial Board for "Home Care Provider." Ms. Finkelman has published many books and journal articles throughout her career, including Psychiatric-Mental Health Case Studies published in"Critical Thinking in Nursing: Case Studies Across the Curriculum," Carol Green (Ed.), Prentice Hall Health, 1999; "Psychiatric Home Care," Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1997; "Psychiatric Administration Manual," Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1994 (annual supplements 1995, 1996); "Quality Assurance for Psychiatric Nursing," Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1990 (annual supplements: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994). She has also contributed chapters on the topic of health care delivery and managed care for other new textbooks to bepublished in 2001, including "The Health Care Delivery System," in "Community Health Nursing" Promoting the Health of Aggregates," Mary Nies and Melanie McEwen (Eds.), W.B. Saunders Company.

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