Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing: Theory and Application

Develop the skills you'll need on the job-from organizing patient care and motivating staff to managing conflict and working collaboratively-with this new edition of the #1 selling book for the course. The authors provide a concise, user-friendly synthesis of application and theory and a unique focus on critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. Over 240 case studies are drawn from a variety of health care settings, including 15-25 new cases that focus on the new nurse or first-level manager. Key features: a mini-crosswalk designates the iom recommendations, bsn essentials, nln competencies, qsen competencies and nclex client needs categories addressed in each chapter. Updated! a stronger focus on leadership ensures that both leadership and management concepts are fully addressed in each chapter. Updated! evidence-based decision making as a core of leadership and management decision making is addressed throughout the book. New learning exercises have been added, including 15 to 25 new more realistic case studies specific to the new nurse or first-level nurse manager. Foster your students' readers' critical-thinking skills and promote interactive discussions with more than 250 learning exercises that ask them to act as nurse-managers: assessing, deciding and executing. Visually reinforce key ideas with break out comments in every chapter. Reinforce student learning with tables, displays and illustrations that clarify complex information. Help your students master material and prepare for exams with key concepts that summarize each chapter's important information.