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This new edition of Aspen's bestselling book, The Nurse as Executive, has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant changes in nursing management. The nurse executive's role as a member of the executive team is examined, as well as the nurse executive's role in health care issues, such as quality, outcomes, team building, and cost containment. Organizing the book around the new resource-driven management model rather than the goal-driven management model makes this book unique and distinguishes it from other management texts.
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Contents: INTRODUCTION TO THE MODEL * Environment: The Health Care System and Its Institutions * The Resource-Driven Model * BUILDING A NURSING PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE * Nurse Executive As Strategist * Analyzing Nursing Theories * Model for Nursing Practice * Nursing Division Philosophy * Nursing Division's Mission and Objectives * Nursing Goals and Management Goals * BUILDING THE STRUCTURE * Governance Structures * Organization and Departmentalization * Committee Structure * Restructured Practice * Case Management * BUILDING THE CULTURE AND THE VALUES * Values-Based Leadership * Ethics: Impact on Goals and Practices * Empowering Staff in Today's Care Environment * MANAGING PRODUCTIVITY * Concertizing Goal Statements: Functions and Standards * Policies, Procedures, and Practices * Assigning, Staffing, and Scheduling * Staff and Patient Classifications * MANAGING RESOURCES* Nursing Resources: Pricing and Productivity * Institutional Finance and Nursing Management * Material Resources of Nursing Management * Business Planning * ACHIEVING QUALITY OUTCOMES* Managing Outcomes * Nursing Administration Control System * Quality Management * Performance Appraisal System * Staff Development * NURSE EXECUTIVE AS LEADER * Nurse Executives and Transitions * Nurse Executive As Builder of Teams * Strategic Planning and Marketing * Communications in Nursing Management * Role of the Nurse Executive * A Look at Relationships * Legal Considerations and Labor Law * Gauging Success of the Nurse Executive * Nurse Executive of the Future
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Barbara Barnum, PhD, RN, FAAN
Darlene Kerfoot, PhD, RN, CNAA
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