Nursing management and leadership

Administrators and managers in healthcare can improve their own expertise and performance by learning and mastering the 12 critical interpersonal, financial, and organizational management skills in this highly practical guide.

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

Ignorance is mostly framed as a void, a gap to be filled with appropriate knowledge.

Florence Nightingale never could have predicted the current, complex landscape of the nursing profession when she built its foundations more than a century ago.

Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way - something essential in today's complex and changing organisations.

People are fascinated by stories of childbirth, and the sources to document maternity in Britain in the twentieth century are rich and varied.

"e;Essential reading for all current and future leaders in long-term care.

Nurse Staffing 101 is a resource for RNs in developing effective and facility-specific approaches to optimal staffing decisions and plans.

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.

The Politics of Nursing Knowledge puts into context the historical factors which have shaped and sometimes limited the development of nurse education.

Nursing is often called a helping profession: Nursing's Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others.

Problem-based learning places the student at the centre of a process which integrates what is learned in a lecture with what the student actually experiences in practice.

This accessible text presents a comparative analysis of health and social care policy and practice from around the world, with learning points drawn out for the UK.

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies.

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

Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas.

The potential for health professionals to learn and practice the process of entrepreneurship to improve the quality of health care and services is enormous and untapped.

This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of action learning, one of the most widely used development methods in health, social and community care.

This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages.

Supervising and assessing students in practice is central to the nursing and midwifery role.

This book provides all those concerned with the delivery of care and services to people with a learning difficulty with an up-to-date overview of recent development in the area.

Originally published in 1979, The Care of the Sick is a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the emergence of modern nursing.

Bringing together sociological theories and nursing practice this text develops a dynamic conceptualisation of the nursing role which is rooted in the work setting.

Over the past decades, reflection has taken centre stage in nursing education but it is easy to get stuck in a superficial cycle of storytelling and self-examination, without getting any further insights into your own practice and abilities.

This conference main theme is "e;Overcoming Global Health Challenges through Nursing Education, Research and Technology"e;.

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.

The book demonstrates how Resilient Health Care principles can enable those on the frontline to work more effectively towards interdisciplinary care by gaining a deeper understanding of the boundaries that exist in everyday clinical settings.

Care coordination has always been a primary duty of nursing.

The quintessential guide to nursing diagnoses from NANDA-I experts in new updated editionFully updated and revised by editors T.

Clinical Nurse Managers face a multitude of challenges daily: managing a budget, interpersonal conflicts among staff, policy and structural changes, and many more.

Fully updated with important new theory and practical material, this second edition of Learning Journals offers guidance on keeping and using journals and gives step-by-step advice on integrating journal writing on taught courses, in training and professional development and in supporting personal development planning (PDP) activities.

Bringing together sociological theories and nursing practice this text develops a dynamic conceptualisation of the nursing role which is rooted in the work setting.

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

This book covers the processes of management and leadership in healthcare practices.

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Supervising and assessing students in practice is central to the nursing and midwifery role.

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Nursing is often called a helping profession: Nursing's Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others.

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.

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

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.

This book describes the rapidly emerging role of Nurse Coach - a role that speaks to the heart of nursing, but one that all providers can embrace.

Problem-based learning online is a burgeoning area, crying out for support in all the disciplines, but particularly health, medicine, education and social care that are already advanced users of problem-based learning in higher education.

Originally published in 1974, the main aim of this book is to help nurses to a deeper understanding of those whom they are learning to serve.

Professional Perspectives in Health Care covers a broad range of healthcare issues such as confidentiality, the patient as consumer and interprofessional working.

This fully updated and revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession.

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 ground-breaking book uses organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to explore the ethical accountability of leadership in healthcare organizations to their distinct vulnerable stakeholder communities.