Includes bibliographical references and index

Unit I: Nursing leadership and management. Nursing leadership and management -- The health care environment -- Organizational management and magnet hospitals -- Basic clinical health care economics -- Evidence-based health care -- Nursing and health care informatics -- Population-based health care practice -- Unit 2: Leadership and management of the interdisciplinary team. Personal and interdisciplinary communication -- Politics and consumer partnerships -- Strategic planning and organizing patient care -- Effective team building -- Power -- Change, innovation, and conflict management -- Unit 3: Leadership and management of patient-centered care. Budget concepts for patient care -- Effective staffing -- Delegation of patient care -- Organization of patient care -- Time management and setting patient care priorities -- Patient and health care education -- Unit 4: Quality improvement of patient outcomes. Managing outcomes using an organizational quality improvement model -- Evidence-based strategies to improve patient care outcomes -- Decision making and critical thinking -- Legal aspects of health care -- Ethical aspects of health care -- Culture, generational differences, and spirituality -- Unit 5: Leadership and management of self and the future. Collective bargaining -- Career planning -- Nursing job opportunities -- Your first job -- Healthy living : balancing personal and professional needs -- NCLEX preparation and professionalism -- Abbreviations -- Glossary

Nursing leadership and management