Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management

ANNOTATION

"...examines the basic concepts of leadership & management using case studies and examples from acute and long-term care to illustrate the application of concepts to practice in today's health-care environment."

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book helps you grasp the important leadership and management concepts that nurses need in today's workplace. Many real-life case studies and examples and an easy-to-read, engaging writing style bring this material to life, making concerns easy to understand and apply.

SYNOPSIS

This textbook emphasizes the theoretical aspects of leadership and management, explaining how they apply to the clinical setting. Covering leadership skills, organizational aspects, and professional issues, chapters address topics like teamwork, conflict, change, power, time management, stress, legal and ethical concerns, career issues, and the state of nursing. Self-assessments are included, and the appendix features documents related to professional standards and ethics. The authors are nurses and instructors at Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

FROM THE CRITICS

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Reviewer: Carole A. Kenner, RNC, DNS, FAAN (University of Illinois at Chicago)Description: This book provides the foundation for a new nurse to make the transition from student to RN. The previous edition was published in 2001.Purpose: The book addresses workplace issues, role transition, and how to build a professional career. The purpose is to help the new nurse ease into the transition to the role of a beginning RN. These objectives are worthy and addressed well by the authors.Audience: The intended audience is the graduating nurse or novice RN. The author team is well known for their expertise in professional and leadership/management issues.Features: Each chapter starts with objectives and a content outline making it easy to go directly to an area of interest. Colored text boxes guide the reader to key concepts. The book starts with a self assessment of leadership and progresses through how to bring teams together, change, organizational thinking and power, delegation, time management, work-related stress and how to cope, work environment, values and ethics, nursing practice within a legal context, and nursing as a career. At the end of each chapter there are study questions as well a critical thinking exercise to help synthesize the chapter's material. The book is very concise and comprehensive.Assessment: Compared to other leadership/management books, this one stands out as very practical and easy to follow. The format lends itself to easy reading and the critical thinking exercises represent really life experiences. It is an excellent example of pedagogy at work. This edition is stronger than theprevious ones because it emphasizes work environments, nursing shortage, and changes in healthcare delivery as reflected in the new NCLEX blueprints.

RATING

3 Stars from Doody

ACCREDITATION

Diane K. Whitehead, EdD, RN, Department Head, Nursing, Broward Community College, Davie, Florida
Sally A. Weiss, EdD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, Florida
Ruth M. Tappen, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Christine E. Lynn Eminent Scholar, College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida