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Whatever your role, practice or educational environment, here are the tools and techniques you can use to realize your leadership potential, advance your career, and contribute to the future of nursing. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the 5th Edition features a new chapter, The Phenomenon of Leadership: Classic/Historical and Contemporary Leadership Theories, as well as expanded coverage of the Institute of Medicine initiatives and how...
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The new edition features: -Thematic list of entries in addition to alphabetic index -An extensive overview on salient nursing leadership issues, themes, characteristics, and current and future developments -A "legacies" section on nursing luminaries throughout history -Over 80 new entries and updates and revisions of original entries -Extensive cross-referencing and print and web resources for each entry.
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This book delivers an inspiring first-person narrative to help nurses at all career levels embrace and hone their leadership potential. Brimming with insight and personal anecdotes -- while grounded in scholarly literature -- this comprehensive and practical book addresses the major contemporary arenas of leadership: personal, organizational, and transformational. It discusses the personal qualities required of a good leader, the value of attaining...
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"Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing 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. Benefiting students who often have limited...
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This book will help both practicing and student nurses manage successfully in today's challenging, resource-limited healthcare environments. The most up-to-date learning package for nurses who intend to manage, this book combines practicality with conceptual understanding, tapping expertise of contributors from many relevant disciplines.
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"101 Global Leadership Lessons for Nurses covers the daily challenges facing health care leaders--communications, negotiations, resource management, and work-life balance, to name a few--with the unique feature of a mentor-mentee team authoring each chapter. These established and emerging mentors and mentees come from every corner of the globe and share their lessons learned, providing a rich legacy for nurses everywhere. 101 Global Leadership Lessons...
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"Using a combination of practical advice and inspiration, authors Connie Curran and Therese Fitzpatrick show nurses how to leverage their knowledge and expertise in patient care to achieve success, whether they are an aspiring CNO or entrepreneur. Curran and Fitzpatrick teach nurses how their passion for excellence in patient care uniquely qualifies them to serve in senior leadership and governance roles."--P. 4 of cover.
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Offers leadership lessons for aspiring nurse leaders from colleagues in business, medicine, philanthropy, government, academia, research, and health care fields. This book will prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health. It offers practical advice, lessons learned, and testimonials of how nurses can prepare themselves for leadership that will help them to provide exceptional health care and innovative nursing education as well as to...
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"Told from the perspective of 90 administrative and staff nurses, [this] book describes the change process that they set in motion and the reasoning behind each of its steps. Change emerged not from attention to what was wrong, but from a systematic investment in the positive aspects of the health system already in place. The book details how nursing relationships evolved from traditional and fragmented to professional, collaborative relationships...
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This is the autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the woman who founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in the mountains of eastern Kentucky in 1925. Riding out on horseback, the FNS nurse-midwives proved that high mortality rates and malnutrition did not need to be the norm in rural areas. By their example and through their graduates, the FNS exacted a lasting influence on family health care throughout the world.
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"Nurses are presented with the challenge of leading a variety of groups in our healthcare environment, ranging from patients and families to communities and organizations. While there appears to be little time for leadership development, leadership skills are in great demand. This first book of its kind will fill the leadership development void not previously addressed in nursing education."--Jacket.
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