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Leadership roles and management functions in nursing : theory and application / Bessie L. Marquis, Carol J. Huston.

By: Marquis, Bessie L [author.].
Contributor(s): Huston, Carol Jorgensen [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, [2015]Edition: 8th edition.Description: xxiv, 655 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781469855714; 1451192819.Subject(s): Leadership | Nursing services -- Administration | Nursing, Supervisory | Nurse Administrators | Health and Wellbeing | Nursing -- organization & administration | NursingDDC classification: 362.173068 MAR
Contents:
Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning : requisites for successful leadership and management -- Classical views of leadership and management -- Twenty-first century thinking about leadership and management -- Ethical issues -- Legal and legislative issues -- Patient, subordinate, and professional advocacy -- Strategic and operational planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Career development : from new graduate to retirement -- Organizational structure -- Organizational, political, and personal power -- Organizing patient care -- Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination -- Socializing and educating staff for team building in a learning organization -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication -- Delegation -- Effective conflict resolution and negotiation -- Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired.
Summary: Now in its eighth edition, this nursing leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. The book includes nearly 250 exercises.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Develop the skills you'll need on the job--from organizing patient care and motivating staff to managing conflict and working collaboratively--with this new edition of the #1 selling book for the course. The authors provide a concise, user-friendly synthesis of application and theory and a unique focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. Over 240 case studies are drawn from a variety of health care settings, including 15-25 NEW cases that focus on the new nurse or first-level manager. "
Prepare to take on leaderships roles in nursing practice with Examining the Evidence sections in each chapter that provide new research ?ndings, evidence-based practice, and best practices in leadership and management. Enhance your critical-thinking skills with more than 250 Learning Exercises, that put you in the role of a nurse-manager: assessing, deciding, and executing. Reinforce your understanding of key ideas with Break Out Comments in every chapter. Master complex information with tables, displays, and illustrations . Prepare for exams with Key Concepts that summarize each chapter's important information. Take your learning beyond the book a wide range of online learning tools, including with Web links for each chapter that guide you to new information.

"International edition" - cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning : requisites for successful leadership and management -- Classical views of leadership and management -- Twenty-first century thinking about leadership and management -- Ethical issues -- Legal and legislative issues -- Patient, subordinate, and professional advocacy -- Strategic and operational planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Career development : from new graduate to retirement -- Organizational structure -- Organizational, political, and personal power -- Organizing patient care -- Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination -- Socializing and educating staff for team building in a learning organization -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication -- Delegation -- Effective conflict resolution and negotiation -- Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired.

Now in its eighth edition, this nursing leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. The book includes nearly 250 exercises.