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. Presented in three units, readers are introduced to a conceptual framework that highlights nursing leadership and management responsibilities for patient-centered care delivery to the patient, to the community, to the agency, and to the self.
This valuable new edition:
- Includes new and up-to-date information from national and state health care and nursing organizations, as well as new chapters on the historical context of nursing leadership and management and the organization of patient care in high reliability health care organizations
- Explores each of the six Quality and Safety in Nursing (QSEN) competencies: Patient-Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-based Practice (EBP), Quality Improvement (QI), Safety, and Informatics
- Provides review questions for all chapters to help students prepare for course exams and NCLEX state board exams
- Features contributions from experts in the field, with perspectives from bedside nurses, faculty, directors of nursing, nursing historians, physicians, lawyers, psychologists and more
Nursing Leadership & Management, Fourth Edition provides a strong foundation for evidence-based, high-quality health care for undergraduate nursing students, working nurses, managers, educators, and clinical specialists.
Table of Contents
Contributors xxi
former contributors to the third edition xxxi
Preface xxxix
Foreword xlvii
How to use this book xlix
About the editors li
Acknowledgments lv
About the Companion Website lvii
Unit 1: Kelly's Nursing Leadership and Management 1
1 Kelly's Nursing Leadership, Management, and Motivation 1
2 The Health Care Environment 29
3 Nursing Leadership and Management in a Historical Context 66
4 Organization of Patient Care in High Reliability Care Organizations 86
5 Organization and Staffing of Patient Care at the Unit Level 120
6 Health Care Economics 157
7 Hospital Department and Unit Budgets 184
Unit 2: Leadership and Management of Patient-Centered Care 206
8 Patient-Centered Care 206
9 Patient and Health Care Education 230
10 Patient Outcomes and Evidence-Based Health Care 261
11 Searching for the Evidence 280
12 Quality Improvement of Patient Care 303
13 Improving Quality at the Bedside 328
14 Safety: Patient and Health Care Team 348
15 Nursing Informatics 374
Unit 3: Nursing and the Interprofessional Team 411
16 Interprofessional Teamwork and Collaboration 411
17 Members of the Interprofessional Team 441
18 Delegation, Assignment, and Supervision of Patient Care 456
19 Time Management and Setting Patient Care Priorities 490
20 Change, Clinical Decision Making and Innovation 511
21 Power and Politics 535
22 Legal Aspects of Nursing 566
23 Ethical Aspects of Nursing 587
24 Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality 605
Unit 4: Leadership and Management of Self and the Future 640
25 NCLEX-RN Preparation 640
26 Entry into the Profession: Your First Job 668
27 Career Planning and Professional Development 695
28 Balancing a Healthy Personal and Professional Life 722
29 Nursing Career Opportunities 734
Appendix 1 754
Appendix 2 770
Appendix 3 772
Appendix 4 774
Appendix 5 776
Appendix 6 778
Glossary 780
Index 791
