Description
- Unit I : The Critical Triad: Decision Making, Management, and Leadership
- Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning: Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
- Chapter 2: Classical Views of Leadership and Management
- Chapter 3: Twenty-First-Century Thinking About Leadership and Management
- Unit II: Foundation for Effective Leadership and Management: Ethics, Law, and Advocacy
- Chapter 4: Ethical Issues
- Chapter 5: Legal and Legislative Issues
- Chapter 6: Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional Advocacy
- Unit III: Roles and Functions in Planning
- Chapter 7: Organization Planning
- Chapter 8: Planned Change
- Chapter 9: Time Management
- Chapter 10: Fiscal Planning and Health-Care Reimbursement
- Chapter 11: Career Planning and Development in Nursing
- Unit IV: Roles and Functions in Organizing
- Chapter 12: Organization Structure
- Chapter 13: Organization, Political, and Personal Power
- Chapter 14: Organizing Patient Care
- Unit V: Roles and Functions in Staffing
- Chapter 15: Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
- Chapter 16: Educating and Socializing Staff in a Learning Organization
- Chapter 17: Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
- Unit VI: Roles and Functions in Directing
- Chapter 18: Creating a Motivating Climate
- Chapter 19: Organization, Interpersonal, and Group Communication in Team Building
- Chapter 20: Delegation
- Chapter 21: Conflict, Workplace Violence, and Negotiations
- Chapter 22: Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
- Unit VII: Roles and Functions in Controlling
- Chapter 23: Quality Control in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety
- Chapter 24: Performance Appraisal
- Chapter 25: Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the Chemically or Psychologically Impaired
- Appendix Solutions to Selected Learning Exercises
- Index