Nursing management and leadership

In today's health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent.

In this digital age the use of video in social science research has become commonplace.

This book presents an overview of innovative initiatives to combat the nursing shortage that are being pioneered in a number of states, schools of nursing, and health care institutions.

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!

This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role.

This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain.

Nursing Leadership & Management, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive look at the knowledge and skills required to lead and manage at every level of nursing, emphasizing the crucial role nurses play in patient safety and the delivery of quality health care.

Improving the culture of safety in our health care institutions is an essential component of preventing or reducing errors as well as improving overall health care quality.

Do you know what work you can, or should, delegate?

Integrates the perspectives of contemporary nurse leaders to foster an innovative, collaborative future Encompassing the wisdom of both established and emerging nurse leaders, this expansive book demonstrates proof of theory in action and the influence of our great nursing legacy on today's luminaries as they carve out new terrain to benefit current and future health care needs.

In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west.

"e;This book provides a dynamic and comprehensive interprofessional approach to building a culture of safety by using simulation across clinical and education spheres in healthcare.

A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship.

Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.

The successful implementation of evidence into practice is dependent on aligning the available evidence to the particular context through the active ingredient of facilitation.

"e;This unique book not only explains the introduction of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) role but also bridges the DNP essentials with the evidence-based practice framework.

Out with the old and in with the new!

Obra de interés para alumnos de grado y postgrado de Enfermería así como para profesionales de Enfermería interesados en la Gestión Sanitaria.

Facilitates a seamless transition from CNL student to CNL practitionerThis unique, quick-access handbook delivers practice essentials for Clinical Nurse Leaders in all settings.

Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associated with such technologies.

Florence Nightingale is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing.

ANA's What Would Florence Do?

First Edition Received 100 Points and 5-Star Doody'sReview!

In Why Patients Sue Doctors 2e the authors draw on their wide-ranging, collective experience in over 1000 real-life medicolegal cases to explore why and how doctors make mistakes.

This new edition updates the previous one and adds additional content related to postoperative management, pain management, LGBTQ care,  and uroradiology.

This comprehensive book organizes the components of quality and safety outcomes, within a framework developed by expert nurses.

Despite noteworthy exceptions, nursing's literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates, guides and shapes research, education, and practice.

A comprehensive guide to effective strategic management of health care organizations.

This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.

This book constitutes an excellent source of information for gaining a better understanding of information technologies in healthcare; for reviewing how healthcare will change as a consequence; and how to manage these changes in order to realise eHealth's full potential in creating value for patients, professionals and the system as a whole.

First Edition Awarded Second Place in 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards!

Clinical nurse managers face myriad challenges, including administrative, clinical, and interpersonal issues.

Newly qualified nurses can find their first year of practice a daunting experience.

This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story.

The second edition of this successful book is about understanding, valuing, managing and developing yourself as a professional.

This toolkit is designed for preparing health and social care practitioners for their role in facilitating learning in their workplace.

Despite new approaches, education and increased focus on preventative measures, patients are still falling.

This book is unique in its global approach to applying the Guidelines for Culturally Competent Nursing Practice that were recently endorsed by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and distributed to all of its 130 national nursing associations.

Helps nurse executives ethically navigate the unique challenges and moral dilemmas of healthcareThis unique text is the first to introduce professional moral courage as an essential competency in nurse executive leadership.

Giving students the strongest possible baseline in medical terminology, along with the how and why it is used in documentation and basic coding, this is a vital text for all students taking courses in the area.

This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society.

Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies.

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations and industry leaders benefit from nurses' informatics talent - essential skills, knowledge, wisdom, and contributions - to add immense value in the current and future healthcare technology landscape.

Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance.

Learning is at the heart of change.

This innovative volume provides fresh perspectives on how medical students and patients construct identities in relation to each other, using stories of their clinical encounters.

Literature reviews are undertaken by students, researchers, clinicians and educationalists - that is, almost all nurses.

Aimed at those new to the subject, Fundamentals of Psychology is a clear and reader-friendly textbook that will help students explore and understand the essentials of psychology.

The second edition of this book provides a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people supported by practical examples from international research studies.

E-learning is a new, exciting and increasingly popular way of learning for health and social care professionals, both in the pre- and post-qualification stages.