Transformational Nursing Leadership

Transformational Nursing Leadership
Author: Anne M. Barker
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1992
Genre: Nurse administrators
ISBN: 9780887375514

Nursing leadership is in crisis! Nurses are dissatisfied with their pr actice settings; with the attitudes and behaviors of nurse managers; w ith limited professional growth, advancement and achievement; with opp ressive organizational hierarchies that hinder autonomy in practice; a nd with the lack of job status and power.

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309133181

The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.

The Growth and Development of Nurse Leaders

The Growth and Development of Nurse Leaders
Author: Angela Barron McBride, PhD, RN, FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-09-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826107087

p>Angela Barron McBride has a long and renowned history in nursing leadership and education. This book, which focuses on developing nurse leaders, carries on in the tradition of her previous successes, including The Growth and Development of Mothers, recognized as one of the best books of 1973 by both The New York Times and the American Journal of Nursing. From then to now, she has exerted leadership from many positions, which the American Academy of Nursing has celebrated by awarding her the status of "Living Legend." This book draws on her extensive leadership experience as an internationally recognized nurse scholar and pragmatist to help all nurses develop their leadership abilities. The book's three sections address the major views of leadership that have occupied center stage in recent decades: leadership as personal, leadership as achieving organizational goals, and leadership as transformational. It references both literature and personal experiences that bring timely issues to focus, from career stages and mentoring needs, to developmental tasks by career trajectory, and more. Angela Barron McBride brings a practicality and insightfulness to the subject that will empower you when considering your leadership development, no matter your specialty or career stage.

The Situational Leader

The Situational Leader
Author: Paul Hersey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1997
Genre: Executive ability
ISBN:

For organizations to achieve excellence in today's world, the commitment to develop people is becoming increasingly important. It is the effective utilization of the human resources that is the cornerstone to high performing organizations. This book presents a practical framework to developing people and increasing productivity.

Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing

Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
Author: Bessie L. Marquis
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781772464

Now in its Sixth Edition, this foremost leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. More than 225 case studies and learning exercises promote critical thinking and interactive discussion. Case studies cover a variety of settings, including acute care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and community health. The book addresses timely issues such as leadership development, staffing, delegation, ethics and law, organizational, political, and personal power, management and technology, and more. Web links and learning exercises appear in each chapter. An Instructor's CD-ROM includes a testbank and PowerPoint slides.

Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare

Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare
Author: David Stanley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1119253764

Clinical leadership, along with values-based care and compassion, are critical in supporting the development of high quality healthcare service and delivery. Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare: Values into Action offers a range of tools and topics that support and foster clinically focused nurses and other healthcare professionals to develop their leadership potential. The new edition has been updated in light of recent key changes in health service approaches to care and values. Divided into three parts, it offers information on the attributes of clinical leaders, as well as the tools healthcare students and staff can use to develop their leadership potential. It also outlines a number of principles, frameworks and topics that support nurses and healthcare professionals to develop and deliver effective clinical care as clinical leaders. Covering a wide spectrum of practical topics, Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare includes information on: Theories of leadership and management Organisational culture Gender Generational issues and leaders Project management Quality initiatives Working in teams Managing change Effective clinical decision making How to network and delegate How to deal with conflict Implementing evidence-based practice Each chapter also has a range of reflective questions and self-assessments to help consolidate learning. Itis invaluable reading for all nursing and healthcare professionals, as well as students and those newly qualified.

Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management

Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management
Author: Ruth M. Tappen
Publisher: F A Davis Company
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780803611245

This new edition focuses on preparing your students to assume the role as a significant member of the health-care team and manager of care, and is designed to help your students transition to professional nursing practice. Developed as a user-friendly text, the content and style makes it a great tool for your students in or out of the classroom. (Midwest).

Keeping Patients Safe

Keeping Patients Safe
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2004-03-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309187362

Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care â€" and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.