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Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Fifth Edition

Author(s): Linda A. Roussel, DSN, RN, NEA-BC, CNL, Professor, University of South Alabama - College of Nursing, Alabama
Russell C. Swansburg, RN, PhD, CNAA, University of the Incarnate Word
Details:
  • ISBN-13: 9780763757144
  • ISBN-10:0763757144
  • Paperback    699 pages      © 2009
Price: International Sales $97.95 US List
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Overview

AJN 2009 Book of the Year Award Winner!

CLICK HERE to listen to an explanation from the author on what is new in the Fifth Edition

This comprehensive text provides management concepts and theories, giving professional administrators and students theoretical and practical knowledge. Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators provides a foundation for nurse managers and nurse executives as well as students with major management and administrative content including planning, organizing, leadership, directing, and evaluating.

The Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated with additional content on complex adaptive systems, quality improvement and patient safety, and evidence-based practice.  It also has new chapters on academic and clinical partnership, trends shaping nursing leadership, implications for education and practice, creating a culture of magnetism, information management and technology, risk management and legal issues, and building a portfolio for academic and clinical partnerships.

A great reference to prepare for the Nurse Executive, Advanced certification examination 

Key Features Include:

  • Learning Objectives
  • Quotes
  • Review Questions
  • Evidence-based Practice Boxes
  • Case Studies

Review the TRANSITION GUIDE for the Fifth Edition and View Sample Chapters  

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  • unit openers
  • learning features
  • learning objectives
  • “Concepts”
  • “Nurse Manager Behaviors”
  • “Nurse Executive Behaviors”
  • Quotations
  • summaries
  • exercises
  • review questions
  • Evidence-Based Practice Research Boxes
  • Case studies
  • Tables/figures/charts
  • clinical leader content and DNP content
  • glossary

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Unit I - Leading in times of complexity and rapid cycle change

Chapter 1: Trends shaping Nursing Leadership

Chapter2: Concepts and Theories Guiding Professional Practice

Chapter 3: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare Organizations

Chapter 4: Ethical Nurse Leadership

Chapter 5: Change, Complexity, and Creativity

Chapter 6: Collaborative Decision-making and Communication: Skills and Practices

Unit II - Leading the Business of Healthcare: Processes and Principles

Chapter 7: Organizational Structure and Analysis

Chapter 8: Human Resources: Managing a Culturally Diverse Workforce

Chapter 9: Strategic Planning and Management

Chapter 10: Staffing and Scheduling

Chapter 11: Budgeting Principles for Nurse Managers

Chapter 12: Managing the Process of Care Delivery

Chapter 13: Information Management and Technology

Unit III - Leading to Improve the Future Quality and Safety of Healthcare Delivery Systems

Chapter 14 - Health Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues

Chapter 15 - Risk Management and Legal Issues

Chapter 16 - Tools for Evaluating Management Systems and Care Delivery Processes

Chapter 17 - Quality Improvement

Chapter 18 - Performance Appraisal

Chapter 19 - The Professional Nursing Staff Educator

Chapter 20: Building a Portfolio for Academic and Clinical Partnership

Chapter 21 - Transformational Leadership and Evidence-Based Management

Chapter 22 - Creating a Culture of Magnetism

 


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Linda A. Roussel, DSN, RN, NEA-BC, CNL-Professor, University of South Alabama - College of Nursing, Alabama

Dr. Roussel has a strong background in nursing administration, teaching, and consultation. She has been instrumental in the developing of a number of educational and leadership programs included the DNP, CNL, and Executive Nurse Administration. She serves on the ANCC Expert Panel for the Executive Nurse Administration certification exam, as well as academic representative for the Clinical Nurse Leader Association (CNLA). She has been an invited speaker at national conferences including the AACN Masters’ Conference, Clinical Nurse Leader Summit, and the Evidence-Based Summer Institute (University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio).

Additional Titles by this Author

Russell C. Swansburg, RN, PhD, CNAA-University of the Incarnate Word

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ShowAppropriate Courses

Nursing Administration courses in Executive Nurse Administrative curriculum tracks, including joint programs of MBA/MSN or MPH/MSN. This textbook can be used throughout the curriculum.

Also applicable for: Accelerated Registered Nurse tracks; RN to BSN tracks; RN to MSN tracks.

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