A Guide for Caring when Interacting, Teaching, and Learning in Cyberspac
This innovative text, built on the foundations of Watson's Caring Science, demonstrates how nursing professionals can develop virtual relationships that encompass caring and understanding in professional, teaching/learning, and everyday cyber communications. It describes how caring and love can transcend distance, space, and time in our ......
Six habits for improving relationships in healthcare settings
Demonstrates how restorative practice can be used to help address day-to-day challenges faced in healthcare by developing a set of six complementary habits.
Guides nursing graduate students and professionals in the development of skills required to fulfill emerging leadership roles in our increasingly complex healthcare system. The book provides a wealth of critical information, practical tools, creative vision, and inspiration to help facilitate leadership in a wide variety of settings.
Holds a proven track record of success in teaching healthcare business basics to nurses This acclaimed text helps to build the fundamental economic and financial management skills nurses and nurse leaders need to be successful in daily practice and career advancement. The updated fourth edition includes new and revised case studies reflecting ......
Research shows that non-responsive patients benefit significantly from spiritual andpastoral care. This book equips chaplains with the confidence and skills to deliverexcellent care in this challenging context. With exercises, worksheets, small groupactivities and case studies, it sets out how best to use words and body language, fostertrust and ......
A practical guide for healthcare practitioners who are responsible for the supervision and assessment of students, supporting them to achieve the NMC's standards of proficiency in their field.
Authored by world-class innovators and leaders in evidence-based health care practice, this book provides proven strategies to incorporate innovative and evidence-based leadership strategies into daily use, to build creative, high functioning and sustainable organisations.
The first book of its kind, this concise, step-by-step guide written for novice and experienced educators distils all the essentials every nursing instructor needs to know to implement a Competency-Based Education (CBE) curriculum, teach with competencies, and evaluate students' mastery.
Written in a clear and concise manner, this text provides a core framework and useful skills and strategies to successfully lead nursing and healthcare forward. Chapters delve into discussions of leadership skills and personal attributes of leaders with minimal repetition of material covered in associate degree program.
A Guide for Nurse Practitioners and Administrators
Addresses the planning, implementation and evaluation process as well as the key factors that are critical to the success of the individual nurse practitioner (NP) and incorporates practical guidance from NP experts.
A succinct, engaging text for graduate and undergraduate nursing programs that distils the complexities of health care finance, economics, and policy into a highly accessible resource that can be applied to any practice setting. It presents economic and financial dynamics in healthcare as a precursor to policy and advocacy in nurses.
Delivers practice essentials for Clinical Nurse Leaders in all settings. Focusing on the broad responsibilities of the advanced clinicians in this growing field, this book provides evidence-based, step-by-step guidelines for incorporating the required CNL competencies into day-to-day practice.
From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today's performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident using a proven, coordinated bundle of key practices.
A Team Guide to Systems Change in Education, Health Care, and Social Wel
The challenges we face in education, health care, and social welfare are multifaceted, reflecting
the complex systems in which we live. Out of urgency and often the best of intentions, organizations implement new policies, technologies, and other innovations to tackle these issues, and hope for the best. However, addressing these ......
Explains all the requisites for demonstrating, guiding, and mentoring new nurses through the process of delivering safe, evidence-based, patient-centered care. The second edition builds upon the foundation of the first to address more complicated challenges preceptors face.
Written by an acclaimed nurse leader, scholar, and author, this prizewinning book delivers an inspiring first-person narrative to help nurses at all career levels to embrace and hone their leadership potential. The second edition expands on the original with updated material and five completely new chapters.
Effective Strategies for Aspiring Faculty and Leaders
Instills practical leadership skills for nurse educators and academic leaders throughout their careers. This is the first resource to compare the experiences of nursing academic leaders among public, private, and for-profit institutions for nurse educators of all experience levels and ambitions.
Provides a comprehensive framework for planning, guiding, and evaluating learning activities for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in a wide variety of clinical settings. The fifth edition encompasses current trends in nursing education with expanded content on ways to maximize the clinical learning experiences of nursing students.
Clinical nurse managers face myriad challenges. This concise, practical resource offers guidance for nurses working in this complex, fast-paced role. Addressing common complaints and anxieties, it offers quick access to insights, proven strategies, and tools for effectively coping with such situations as institutional change, a multigenerational ......
This book serves as an authoritative reference designed for nurse practitioners (NPs), masters and doctoral level students, and administrators interested in developing and managing high-quality, cost-effective, and patient-accessible healthcare in NP settings.
A step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining an effective wellness center, whether non-profit or academic based. It presents various document samples (job descriptions, contract with local government and community agencies, and outcome and assessment guides). It defines 'wellness' and describes wellness activities and wellness centers.
A Team Guide to Systems Change in Education, Health Care, and Social Wel
The challenges we face in education, healthcare and social welfare are multi-faceted, reflecting the complex systems we live in. Out of urgency and often the best of intentions, organizations implement new policies, technologies, and other innovations to tackle these issues, and hope for the best. However, addressing these challenges requires ......
Helps readers to grasp the language and process of research with ease With updated content and new references throughout, the fourth edition of this quick-access resource delivers key information on the foundations of evidence-based practice (EBP) and fundamental nursing research concepts. Readers of the new edition will benefit from ......
A leadership development manual for frontline health and care staff
This essential training manual provides an effective framework to develop frontline health and social care staff as leaders for their teams, by increasing the nurse or carer's positive influence on their working environment, raising morale and confidence in improving the quality of care.
Lessons for Novice and Aspiring Deans and Directors
The first resource written specifically for novice and aspiring deans and directors of nursing education, this engaging guide will share practical advice, wisdom, and insight from experienced academic leaders. The insights provided will help Nurses who are new to academic leadership positions.
