Nursing management and leadership

In today's hypercompetitive business climate, managers who help employees achieve their individual potential stand to getand stayahead.

Successful management relies on identifying and promoting high-performing employeesand targeting underperformers for serious improvement.

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

The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others.

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others.

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others.

The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking corporations has intensified the public's concern that traditional business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's traditional commitment to patient well-being.

The author of this book believes passionately in the National Health Service and through his work offers the government recommendations for how its reform process can be saved from failure.

Situating public health within its social, environmental and political context, this book looks to the future through a realistic analysis of policy frameworks, effective interventions and robust measurement and evaluation.

Maths can be an unnecessary source of anxiety for both students and professionals involved in nursing and healthcare.

This book brings together a variety of the best papers from an international research symposium on organisational behaviour in healthcare.

This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change.

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.

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.

Globalization is reshaping the field of health promotion practice.

Successful Statistics For Nursing and Healthcare helps students to gain an understanding of statistical methods within the evidence-based health care context.

Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-speciality of cardiology.

Adult Nursing Practice: Using evidence in care enables today's students and newly qualified nurses develop the knowledge and skills they need to deliver, and lead care tomorrow.

Adult Nursing Practice: Using evidence in care enables today's students and newly qualified nurses develop the knowledge and skills they need to deliver, and lead care tomorrow.

This book describes and explains how caring for adolescents and young adults with cancer (AYA) has developed into what is now a recognized and distinct field of nursing practice.

Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-speciality of cardiology.

Introducing the most complete, compact guide to teaching and learning nursing informaticsIf you re looking for a clear, streamlined review of nursing informatics fundamentals, Essentials of Nursing Informatics Study Guide is the go-to reference.

This is the first text to address the CNL/APRN roles within the wider scope of nursing leadershipThis is the first text to address not only the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) role but also the Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) role within the wider scope of nursing leadership.

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

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.

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

"e;I found the dean's insight and vision for new and evolving changes in nursing very motivational.

First edition named a 2013 Doody's Core Title-5 stars!

This book offers essential information on interventions and actions that enable and promote transition experiences for adolescents and young adults.

This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation.

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.

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.

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

CE credit available through the North Dakota Nurses Association"e;Smoothly written and effectively blending hard facts and personal observations, the book is peppered with inspiring success stories about "e;what works"e; in terms of improving morale and the quality of nursing practice.

Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the History and Pubic Policy category.

Time-tested leadership and management strategies based on experiential learning activities are at the foundation of this text for undergraduate and graduate students in nursing and health care leadership or management courses.

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

This volume offers extensive information on preventive and infection surveillance procedures, routines and policies adapted to the optimal infection control level needed to tackle today's microbes in hospital practice.

This book provides a holistic and multi professional approach to maximising the chances of a successful recovery for the ICU patient surviving a period of critical illness.

The book describes the current management of fecal incontinence from an advanced practice nursing perspective.

This book aims to educate nurses and advanced practice providers (APP's) about known mutations, availability of targeted therapy and the management of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

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

This concise, easy-to-read book tackles the potentially awkward subject of culture in a direct, non-intimidating style.

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.