Download or read book Nursing Managers Powered Incredibly Close Overview written by Sameh Elhabashy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowerment of nurse leaders is vital in enabling nursing teams to deliver high-quality care. Administrative support is needed to counterpoise the disempowering impact of financial, resource pressures and sustain practice engagement. This book allurements and attention to the different type, sources, barrier of leaders' power and how to enhance it. Implications for Nursing Management: Empowered nurse managers at all levels who feel reinforced by their institutions are more likely to stay in their roles, remain committed to achieving quality patient care and act as influential persuasive role models for prospective future leaders. Whether you are a novice or qualified health care provider, I faith that you find this book enjoyable and clinically crucial.
Download or read book Reading Mental Health Nursing Education Research Ethnicity and Power written by Liam Clarke and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It examines some of the ideology and professional issues surrounding the theory and practice of mental health nursing. The author supplies an analysis that goes beyond normal factual texts, drawing on a wide range of orthodox and unorthodox professional literature from several disciplines. Dr Clarke analyses five areas - race/ethnicity, education, ethics, research, and violence - in his distinctive style. The results are enlightening and practitioners of all levels are challenged to review how they think about mental health practice. * Analysis of key subjects relevant to mental health practitioners at all levels * Provocative style to promote further debate * Wide range of references and further reading to stimulate wider study * Brings together a comprehensive range of topics in one volume to encourage understanding of broad context of practice
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Download or read book Health Care Financial Management for Nurse Managers written by Janne Dunham-Taylor and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Care Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar prepares nurse managers for successful interfacing between financial departments and nursing administration. Using a systems approach to analyze the financial impact of health decisions so nurse managers can thoroughly understand financial concepts such as staffing, budgeting, identifying and analyzing variance, measuring productivity, costing, accounting, and forecasting, the text also presents examples, techniques, and financial accounting terminology and demonstrates how cost cutting can affect patient outcomes.
Download or read book Leadership for Evidence Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions written by Sandra Davidson and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions addresses the core competencies and behaviors required to be an innovative leader. This text fulfills the market need for an advanced practice resource focused on how to address new and emerging sources of evidence-based practice that can inform, translate and scale the complexity of leading innovation in healthcare organizations. Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions takes a patient-centered approach, discusses the perspectives on the dynamic of innovation and evidence as well as emerging competencies for leaders of healthcare innovation. To address the core competencies the text is expertly organized into four sections: I. Addresses the current landscape of evidence in innovation II. Examines new sources of evidence including technology and big data III. Discusses strategies for measuring innovation at a variety of system levels IV. Provides strategies to synthesize and disseminate evidence to advance innovation in healthcare. Key Features: • Teaches students how to mine and manage large data sets • Connects the idea of evidence-based practice to leadership practice • Addresses the gap in the knowledge base around research
Download or read book Financial Management for Nurse Managers written by Janne Dunham-Taylor and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial Management for Nurse Managers, Third Edition is a completely revised and updated text addressing a myriad of financial concepts ranging from staffing and budgeting to measuring productivity and forecasting costs. Examples and explanations of terminology will help nurse managers successfully correspond with the financial department to implement change without negatively affecting patient care and outcomes. -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management E Book written by Joanne Langan and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to plan for and respond to disasters! Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management: A Global Perspective helps you build the skills you need to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergency situations efficiently and effectively. It includes the personal stories of nurses who have experienced disasters, describing the specific incident, the response, what worked or didn’t work, and the lessons learned. Case studies show how to apply international response guidelines in providing care for those in need. Written by Joanne Langan, an internationally known expert in disaster preparedness, this reference will help you feel more confident in handling the aftermath of both natural and man-made disasters. Coverage of disaster management includes the stages of disaster response, nursing roles, and personal case studies of actual disasters and public health emergencies around the world, e.g., natural disasters, global earthquakes, radiation disasters, chemical disasters, biologic or infectious disease outbreaks, and man-made disasters. Actual Disasters unit provides a description of each event, preparedness, response, recovery, personal preparedness equipment, legal and ethical issues, special considerations, and lessons learned. Tabletop exercises and drills allow organizations and institutions to assess their readiness, determine community vulnerabilities, and prepare appropriate responses to disaster events such as an active shooter, cyberattacks, and the grid/power going down. Case studies help you learn to apply concepts to practice. User-friendly content includes definitions of key terms and the role expectations for different nurse specialties and levels. Discussions of International Council of Nurses’ Core Competencies in Disaster Nursing use this benchmark as an outline for effective nursing practice before, during, and after disasters. Reviews of psychiatric/mental health issues discuss interventions to improve mental health following disasters. Expert contributors share perspectives and experience from a number of different countries.
Download or read book Political Power and Social Theory written by Julian Go and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues and whether the concept of "capitalism" should be problemat
Download or read book Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses written by Maureen A. Coombs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It examines: · the power held by the competing knowledge bases · the roles of the different professions · the decision-making process · the sources of conflict · the need for change. Drawing together sociological theories and clinical practice, Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses explores the role of nurses in delivering contemporary health care. It makes a strong case for interdisciplinary working and is particularly timely when health care policy is challenging work boundaries in health care.
Download or read book Leadership and Management in Nursing written by Mary Ellen Grohar-Murray and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing accepted models of leadership, this study places emphasis on legal and ethical issues as well as on improving human relationship skills in the nursing arena. Abundant case studies are provided to help strengthen concepts and teach conflict-resolution solutions and coping mechanisms.
Download or read book Managing Client Care written by Elizabeth F. Wywialowski and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a focus on the knowledge and skills needed to become a successful first-line manager, this unique text emphasizes successful client care by addressing the role of nurses in managing quality and the available resources needed. It also discusses each of the essential components of the manager of care role, as well as the basic or core competencies required of staff nurses inherent in the direct care of clients. Thoroughly revised and updated, this 3rd edition reflects the numerous changes related to evolving management concepts - including understanding the health care system, using personal strengths most effectively, and nurturing professional integrity. Content focuses on client care management, rather than staff management, to go beyond basic management concepts and help those whose role will be managing quality client care. Essential theoretical information is covered with an emphasis on practical application. Application Exercises at the end of each chapter challenge readers to apply what they've just learned. A brief clinical situation is followed by questions or commands to describe the solution, based on what was learned in the chapter. Critical Thinking Scenarios at the end of each chapter give readers a short case study to consider and questions to test their application of knowledge. A competency-based format is applied throughout and is based on a research study that identifies clinical management skills needed by beginning staff nurses. Objectives and Key Concepts at the beginning of each chapter provide readers with a glimpse at important information contained within. Key concepts are also shown in boldface upon first mention in that chapter. Cartoons are provided throughout to keep readers more actively interested in the text content. Terrorism readiness and disaster management content has been added to prepare readers for today's most relevant issues. The chapter on Understanding the Context of Health has been thoroughly revised to offer readers a glimpse into the heart of the business of health care. New content in this chapter includes economic and political ties to seamless health care, nursing informatics, and technology in practice. The latest issues facing staff nursing are covered - including content on staff shortages, mandatory overtime, agency nurses/temps, self-preservation, and continuing education. Revised and updated instructor's resources are now located online for added flexibility.
Download or read book So You Want to Be a Nurse written by Marianne Pilgrim Calabrese and published by Frederick Fell Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So You Want To Be A Nurse? is a book that will educate nurses and aspiring nurses alike on how to excel in the health care system. It reveals everything no one wants to tell you about the nursing profession. It tells how to save the reader the agony of on the job trial and error training and gives you a head start in using experienced strategies in order to succeed. Readers will learn how to find the best nursing position for their personality and ability and how to deal with administrators, physicians, colleagues, patients and their families. It also tells you how to survive in a hospital once you get a nursing position. There are The Ten Commandments of Nursing, such as, "Don't put your own beliefs ahead of the patient's," "Choose your work friends cautiously" and offers tips on fundamental issues nurses face today.
Download or read book Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing written by Bessie L. Marquis and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its Sixth Edition, this foremost leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. More than 225 case studies and learning exercises promote critical thinking and interactive discussion. Case studies cover a variety of settings, including acute care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and community health. The book addresses timely issues such as leadership development, staffing, delegation, ethics and law, organizational, political, and personal power, management and technology, and more. Web links and learning exercises appear in each chapter. An Instructor's CD-ROM includes a testbank and PowerPoint slides.
Download or read book NCLEX RN Questions and Answers Made Incredibly Easy written by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of NCLEX-RN Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy! is a completely updated NCLEX review book. Over 3,500 questions and answers with rationales are included. The book is divided into six parts: Part 1 provides studying and test-taking strategies for the test itself. Parts 2-6 cover adult care, psychiatric care, maternal-neonatal care, pediatric care, and professional issues. The professional issues section is new to this edition, and includes chapters on management, leadership, and legal and ethical issues. Six comprehensive sample tests with 75 questions each are also included. The book continues the light-hearted approach of the Incredibly Easy! Series™, and familiar cartoon characters from the series provide support for the reader and point out vital information.
Download or read book Leadership and Nursing Care Management written by Diane Huber and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Notes in each chapter summarize relevant nursing leadership and management studies and show how research findings can be applied in practice. Leadership and Management Behavior boxes in each chapter highlight the performance and conduct expected of nurse leaders, managers, and executives. Leading and Managing Defined boxes in each chapter list key terminology related to leadership and management, and their definitions. Case Studies at the end of each chapter present real-world leadership and management situations and illustrate how key chapter concepts can be applied to actual practice. Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter present clinical situations followed by critical thinking questions that allow you to reflect on chapter content, critically analyze the information, and apply it to the situation.A new Patient Acuity chapter uses evidence-based tools to discuss how patient acuity measurement can be done in ways that are specific to nursing. A reader-friendly format breaks key content into easy-to-scan bulleted lists. Chapters are divided according to the AONE competencies for nurse leaders, managers, and executives. Practical Tips boxes highlight useful strategies for applying leadership and management skills to practice.
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Download or read book The SAGE Guide to Educational Leadership and Management written by Fenwick W. English and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Guide to Educational Leadership and Management allows readers to gain knowledge of educational management in practice while providing insights into challenges facing educational leaders and the strategies, skills, and techniques needed to enhance administrative performance. This guide emphasizes the important skills that effective leaders must develop and refine, including communication, developing teams, coaching and motivating, and managing time and priorities. While being brief, simply written, and a highly practical overview for individuals who are new to this field, this reference guide will combine practice and research, indicate current issues and directions, and choices that need to be made. Features & Benefits: 30 brief, signed chapters are organized in 10 thematic parts in one volume available in a choice of electronic or print formats designed to enable quick access to basic information. Selective boxes enrich and support the narrative chapters with case examples of effective leadership in action. Chapters conclude with bibliographic endnotes and references to further readings to guide students to more in-depth presentations in other published sources. Back matter includes an annotated listing of organizations, associations, and journals focused on educational leadership and administration and a detailed index. This reference guide will serve as a vital source of knowledge to any students pursuing an education degree as well as for individuals interested in the subject matter that do not have a strong foundation of the topic.
