The Effective Nurse: Leader and Manager

by Laura Mae Douglass (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $4.66

  This practical text presents both the essentials of nursing management and leadership, and concrete applications of the principles introduced. Topics covered include: managed care and managed competition, case management and outcomes management; change, stress and burnout; team building; legal issues, such as delegating, staffing and nursing error; cultural diversity; the expanding role of nursing; and computers in nursing. Study aids are included, such as behavioural objectives, itemised chapter summaries, questions for study and discussion, and Test Your Knowledge questions. This edition has a peforated workbook section at the end of the text, entitled Critical Thinking Activities , and there is also expanded treatment of public health/community health and home health/visiting nurse services.