Essentials of nursing leadership & management /
Essentials of nursing leadership and management
Sally A. Weiss, Ruth M. Tappen, and Karen A. Grimley.
- Eighth edition.
- xii, 339 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1. Professionalism -- Characteristics of a profession -- Professional ethics and values -- Nursing practice and the law -- Unit 2. Leading and managing -- Leadership and followership -- The nurse as manager of care -- Delegation and prioritization of client care staffing -- Communicating with others and working with the interprofessional team -- Resolving problems and conflicts -- Unit 3. Health-care organizations -- Organizations, power, and professional empowerment -- Organizations, people, and change -- Quality and safety -- Maintaining a safe work environment -- Promoting a healthy work environment -- Unit 4. Your nursing career -- Launching your career -- Advancing your career -- Unit 5. Looking to the future -- What the future holds -- Appendices -- Standard published by the American nurses association -- Guidelines for the registered nurse in giving, accepting, or rejecting a work assignment -- National council of state boards of nursing guidelines for using social media appropriately -- Answers to NCLEX review questions.
"We are pleased to bring our readers this eighth edition of Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management. This new edition has been updated to reflect the dynamic health-care environment, new safety and quality initiatives, diversity, lessons learned during the pandemic , changes in the nursing workforce and transformations in the nursing practice environment. This edition focuses on essential leadership and management skills and the knowledge needed by the staff nurse as a key member of the interprofessional health-care team and manager of patient care. Issues related to setting priorities, delegation, quality improvement, legal parameters of nursing practice, and ethical issues were also updated for this edition"--