Leadership roles and management functions in nursing : Theory and application

Marquis, Bessie L. (Author). Huston, Carol Jorgensen, author. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781451192810
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 655 p. : col., ill.; 26 cm.
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Unit I. The critical triad: decision making, management, and leadership - 1. Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning : requisites for successful leadership and management - 2. Classical views of leadership and management - 3. Twenty-first century thinking about leadership and management -- Unit II. Foundation for effective leadership and management ethics, law and advocacy - 4. Ethical issues - 5. Legal and legislative issues - 6. Patient, subordinate, and professional advocacy -- Unit III. Roles and functions in planning - 7. Strategic and operational planning - 8. Planned change - 9. Time management - 10. Fiscal planning - 11. Career development : from new graduate to retirement -- Unit IV. Roles and functions in organizing - 12. Organizational structure - 13. Organizational, political, and personal power - 14. Organizing patient care -- Unit V. Roles and functions in staffing - 15. Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination - 16. Socializing and educating staff for team building in a learning organization - 17. Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Unit VI. Roles and function in directing - 18. Creating a motivating climate - 19. Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication - 20. Delegation - 21. Effective conflict resolution and negotiation - 22. Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired -- Unit VII. Roles and functions in controlling - 23. Quality control - 24. Performance appraisal - 25. Problem employees: rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired -- Appendix -- Index.