Nursing Leadership & Management - Softcover

Patricia Kelly is a professor emerita at Purdue University Calumet. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in nursing from DePaul University and a Master's Degree from Loyola University in Chicago. She has taught conferences for the Joint Commission and was the director of quality improvement at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. She has also authored numerous textbooks and journal articles. She continues to work as a part-time staff nurse in the emergency department and is an active Red Cross disaster relief volunteer.

Unit I: NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT. 1. Nursing Leadership and Management. 2. The Healthcare Environment. 3. Organizational Behavior and Magnet Hospitals. 4. Basic Clinical Healthcare Economics. 5. Evidence-Based Health Care. 6. Nursing and Healthcare Informatics. 7. Population Based Healthcare Practice. Unit II: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM. 8. Personal and Interdisciplinary Communication. 9. Politics and Consumer Partnerships. 10. Strategic Planning and organizing Patient Care. 11. Effective Team Building. 12. Power. 13. Change, Innovation, and Conflict Management. Unit III: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT- CENTERED CARE. 14. Budget Concepts for Patient Care. 15. Effective Staffing. 16. Delegation of Patient Care. 17. Organization of Patient Care Management. 18. Time Management and Setting Patient Care Priorities. 19. Patient and Health Care Education. Unit IV: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF PATIENT OUTCOMES. 20. Managing Outcomes Using an Organizational Quality Improvement Model. 21. Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Patient Care Outcomes. 22. Decision Making and Critical Thinking. 23. Legal Aspects of Health Care. 24. Ethical Aspects of Health Care. 25. Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality. Unit V: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SELF AND THE FUTURE. 26. Collective Bargaining. 27. Career Planning. 28. Nursing Job Opportunities. 29. Your First Job. 30. Healthy Living: Balancing Personal and Professional Needs. 31. NCLEX Preparation and Professionalism.