Author: Linda A Rousell, Russel C. Swansburg

Provides management concepts and theories, giving professional administrators and students theoretical and practical knowledge.  The Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated with additional content on complex adaptive systems, quality improvement and patient safety, and evidence-based practice.  It also has new chapters on academic and clinical partnership, trends shaping nursing leadership, implications for education and practice, creating a culture of magnetism, information management and technology, risk management and legal issues, and building a portfolio for academic and clinical partnerships.

Table of Contents

Sections:

Unit I Leading in Times of Complexity and Rapid Cycle Change

Unit II Leading the Business of Healthcare: Processes and Principles

Unit III Leading to Improve the Future Quality and Safety of Healthcare Delivery Systems

©2009, 699 pages.