Leadership and nursing care management /
Huber, Diane.
Philadelphia : Saunders Elsevier,
c2006.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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