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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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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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This guide for moving from nursing student into professional nursing practice includes information on how to work as an integral member of a healthcare team; fulfill responsibilities as a patient-care manager; manage workflow efficiently, including setting priorities and delegating; be a leader and a follower; handle safety, legal, and ethical issues; and develop and sustain a successful career--From publisher description.
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Integrates the perspectives of contemporary nurse leaders to foster an innovative, collaborative future\\Encompassing the wisdom of both established and emerging nurse leaders, this expansive book demonstrates proof of theory in action and the influence of ourgreat nursing legacy on today luminaries as they carve out new terrain to benefit current and future health care needs. With a far-reaching, ambitiousperspective, it is the first text to link...
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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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Written by distinguished nurse leaders with expertise in policy, practice, education, and research, this is a practical "how-to" guide written to help advanced students and nurse leaders develop health policy competencies to advocate for patients from the bedside to the larger political arena. Co-published with the ANA, the book examines the pivotal role of nurses involved in health policy, making it an essential resource for nurses pursuing advanced...
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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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This text successfully blends evidence-based guidelines with practical application. The new edition is designed to prepare you for the nursing leadership issues of today and tomorrow, providing just the right amount of information to equip you with the tools you need to succeed on the NCLEX and in practice. This thoroughly updated edition is organized around the issues that are central to the success of professional nurses in today's constantly changing...
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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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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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"Healthcare organizations require both innovation and evidence-based practice to build systems that will support the future of improved care. Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions, Second Edition addresses the core competencies and behaviors required to be an innovative leader. This text fulfills the market need for an advanced practice resource focused on how to address new and emerging sources of evidence-based...
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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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Nursing Leadership and Management: A Practical Guide provides brief yet wide-ranging content on core leadership and management principles and applications. Written by an experienced leader in the nursing profession, the book addresses the challenges you face today in your interpersonal and therapeutic relationships. Current trends, such as the rise of the nurse entrepreneur and the use of magnet hospitals, are presented in a concise, inexpensive,...
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In late 2010, after a year of health care in the headlines--with nurses uniquely positioned to play a leading role in the ultimate outcome--Sigma Theta Tau International editors decided to ask a group of prominent nurse leaders from around the world to identify the ten most important issues facing the profession. Their lists were staggering, encompassing challenges that affect each and every nurse, regardless of location or specialty. Those ten topics...
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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 book is undertaken to: 1. Provide a conceptual and historical description of EI as a concept and its application to nursing practice. 2. In a very specific and granular manner, illustrate use of EI abilities across various aspects of nursing practice (see chapter titles for these aspects). 3. Describe the current evolution of the body of nurse EI research, including a summary of both the existing evidence and opportunities for future.research....
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