Philippine edition - not for resale outside of the Philippines

Includes index.

Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning: requisites for successful leadership and management
Classical views of leadership and management
Twenty-first-century thinking about leadership and management
Ethical issues
Legal and legislative issues
Patient, subordinate, workplace, and professional advocacy
Organizational planning
Planned change
Time management
Fiscal planning
Career planning and development in nursing
Organizational structure
Organizational, political, and personal power
Organizing patient care
Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination
Socializing and educating staff in a learning organization
Staffing needs and scheduling policies
Creating a motivating climate
Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication
Delegation
Effective conflict resolution and negotiation
Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws
Quality control
Performance appraisal
Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired

Taking an active learning approach, this Ninth Edition emphasizes the symbiotic elements of leadership and management. All professional nurses today face limited resources and emerging technologies, and this book prepares students through up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of leadership and management concepts, ranging from managing conflict and working collaboratively to organizing patient care and staffing. Benefitting students who often have limited opportunities to observe high-performing middle- and top-level managers in practice, a variety of real-world scenarios are featured throughout and provide opportunities for hands-on learning. -- Provided by publisher

College of Health Sciences Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Text in English