Successfully blending evidence-based guidelines with practical application, this thoroughly updated reference provides I the right amount of information to equip you with the tools you need to succeed on the NCLEX
® examination and in practice. You'll find practical discussions of the leadership issues central to your success in today's constantly changing healthcare environment.
• Features NEW chapters on Patient Safety and Workplace Violence and Incivility, illustrating the nurse manager's role in ensuring patient and worker safety.
• Offers a practical, evidence-based approach to today's key issues, including team collaboration, delegation, managing quality and risk, staff education, supervision, and managing costs and budgets.
• NEW Includes Need to Know Now information at the end of each chapter, presented in bulleted lists of critical points to help you focus on essential research-based information in your transition to the workforce.
• NEW! Gives current research examples in The Evidence boxes at the end of each chapter, illustrating how to apply current research to practice.
• Includes UPDATED Research and Literature Perspectives to facilitate application of current research to evidence-based practice.
• Provides Challenge and Solution scenarios and chapter exercises to help you apply what you've learned to real-life situations.