Patricia Kelly is Professor Emerita, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana, where she served as Program Coordinator for an Undergraduate Nursing Program. She has taught Quality Improvement conferences for The Joint Commission and was the Director of Quality Improvement at the University of Chicago Medicine. Pat currently travels nationally teaching three-day NCLEX-RN reviews for Evolve Testing & Remediation/Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI), Houston, Texas.

Janice Tazbir is a nurse at the University of Chicago Medicine in critical care and has been for 32 years. She consults for Anderson Continuing Education, teaches HESI Live Reviews and was a Professor of Nursing at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana, for 22 years, where she served in many roles including Undergraduate Coordinator and the founding Director of The Center for Instructional Excellence.

Contributors

FORMER CONTRIBUTORS TO THE THIRD EDITION

Preface

Foreword

How to use this book

About the editors

01 Nursing Leadership and Management             

02 The Health Care Environment

03 Nursing Leadership and Management in a Historical Context

04 Organization  of Patient care in High Reliability Health Care  Organizations

05 Organization and Staffing of Patient Care at the Unit Level

06 Healthcare Economics             

07 Hospital, Department, and Unit Budgets         

Unit 2 Leadership and Management of Patient –Centered Care  

08 Patient- Centered care

09 Patient and Health Care Education

10 Evidence-Based Practice        

11 Searching for the Evidence

12  Quality Improvement            

13 Improving Quality at the Unit Level   

14 Safety, Patient and Health Care Team

15 Nursing Informatics 

Unit 3 Nursing and the Inter-Professional Team 

16 Inter-Professional Teamwork and Collaboration

17 Members of the Inter-Professional Team

18 Delegation, Assignment, and Supervision of Patient Care

19 TIME MGTMENT AND SETTING PRIORITIES    

20 Change, Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning          

21 Power and Politics    

22 Legal Aspects of Nursing          

23 Ethical Aspects of Nursing     

24 Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality      

25 NCLEX Preparation     

26 Entry into the Profession-Your First Job

27 Career Planning and Achieving Balance            

28 Healthy Living: Balancing Personal and Professional Balance

29 Nursing Career opportunities              

Appendix

Index

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