Main description:

Nursing Leadership and Management, First Canadian Edition, is designed to help you develop the knowledge and skills you need to lead and manage nursing care delivery in the 21st century. Every nurse today must lead and manage nursing care delivery, and the need for nurse leaders and nurse managers in Canada's health care system has never been greater. Today's nurses need to have the competencies required for the 21st century, which calls for changes to nursing, medical, and other health care curricula. Some recommendations for the health care profession highlight the need for nurses to be educated in a broader way, including education in the areas of interdisciplinary teamwork, population-based health care, evidence-based practice, informatics, ethics, quality improvement, culture, and change, to name just a few. This text addresses many of these topics, along with others, to prepare you to become a successful nurse leader and manager in the modern Canadian health care system.

Contents:

Unit I Introduction
Chapter 1: Canada's Health Care Environment
Chapter 2: Basic Clinical Health Care Economics
Unit II A New Health Care Model
Chapter 3: Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 4: Nursing and Health Care Informatics
Chapter 5: Population-Based Health Care Practice
Chapter 6: Personal and Interdisciplinary Communication
Chapter 7: Politics and Consumer Partnerships
Unit III Planning Care
Chapter 8: Nursing Leadership and Management
Chapter 9: Strategic Planning and Organizing Client Care
Chapter 10: Effective Team Building
Chapter 11: Budget Concepts for Client Care
Chapter 12: Effective Staffing
Chapter 13: Delegation of Nursing Care
Unit IV Managing Care
Chapter 14: First-Line Unit Management
Chapter 15: Change and Conflict Resolution
Chapter 16: Power
Unit V Evaluation
Chapter 17: Managing Performance and Outcomes Using an Organizational Quality Improvement Model
Chapter 18: Decision Making
Unit VI Other Professional Considerations
Chapter 19: Legal Aspects of Client Care
Chapter 20: Ethics and the Profession of Nursing
Chapter 21: Collective Bargaining
Unit VII Preparation for Entry-Level Nursing Practice
Chapter 22: Career Planning and Development: Creating Your Path to the Future