Kelly Vana's Nursing Leadership and Management

Nursing Leadership & Management, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive look at the knowledge and skills required to lead and manage at every level of nursing, emphasizing the crucial role nurses play in patient safety and the delivery of quality health care. Presented in three units, readers are introduced to a conceptual framework that highlights nursing leadership and management responsibilities for patient-centered care delivery to the patient, to the community, to the agency, and to the self. This valuable new edition: Includes new and up-to-date information from national and state health care and nursing organizations, as well as new chapters on the historical context of nursing leadership and management and the organization of patient care in high reliability health care organizations Explores each of the six Quality and Safety in Nursing (QSEN) competencies: Patient-Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-based Practice (EBP), Quality Improvement (QI), Safety, and Informatics Provides review questions for all chapters to help students prepare for course exams and NCLEX state board exams Features contributions from experts in the field, with perspectives from bedside nurses, faculty, directors of nursing, nursing historians, physicians, lawyers, psychologists and more Nursing Leadership & Management, Fourth Edition provides a strong foundation for evidence-based, high-quality health care for undergraduate nursing students, working nurses, managers, educators, and clinical specialists.

Contributors xxi former contributors to the third edition xxxi Preface xxxix Foreword xlvii How to use this book xlix About the editors li Acknowledgments lv About the Companion Website lvii Unit 1: Kelly's Nursing Leadership and Management 1 1 Kelly's Nursing Leadership, Management, and Motivation 1 2 The Health Care Environment 29 3 Nursing Leadership and Management in a Historical Context 66 4 Organization of Patient Care in High Reliability Care Organizations 86 5 Organization and Staffing of Patient Care at the Unit Level 120 6 Health Care Economics 157 7 Hospital Department and Unit Budgets 184 Unit 2: Leadership and Management of Patient-Centered Care 206 8 Patient-Centered Care 206 9 Patient and Health Care Education 230 10 Patient Outcomes and Evidence-Based Health Care 261 11 Searching for the Evidence 280 12 Quality Improvement of Patient Care 303 13 Improving Quality at the Bedside 328 14 Safety: Patient and Health Care Team 348 15 Nursing Informatics 374 Unit 3: Nursing and the Interprofessional Team 411 16 Interprofessional Teamwork and Collaboration 411 17 Members of the Interprofessional Team 441 18 Delegation, Assignment, and Supervision of Patient Care 456 19 Time Management and Setting Patient Care Priorities 490 20 Change, Clinical Decision Making and Innovation 511 21 Power and Politics 535 22 Legal Aspects of Nursing 566 23 Ethical Aspects of Nursing 587 24 Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality 605 Unit 4: Leadership and Management of Self and the Future 640 25 NCLEX-RN Preparation 640 26 Entry into the Profession: Your First Job 668 27 Career Planning and Professional Development 695 28 Balancing a Healthy Personal and Professional Life 722 29 Nursing Career Opportunities 734 Appendix 1 754 Appendix 2 770 Appendix 3 772 Appendix 4 774 Appendix 5 776 Appendix 6 778 Glossary 780 Index 791