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.
Developing and Maintaining Your Center (a National Nursing Centers Consortium Guide and Toolkit)
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.
Strategies for Career Empowerment and Creating Inclusive Settings
Discussions around racism in healthcare often lead nowhere and decentre the people that it impacts the most. This book provides a voice for those who are spoken about, but rarely given the platform to share their perspectives, realities, and solutions as minority ethnic healthcare workers.
Leadership is central to all aspects of the nursing role, from managing the delivery of high quality care to acting as a role model for best practice. Written specifically for nursing students, this book introduces you to the principles and practice of leadership, management and multi-disciplinary team working. Key features: * Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards * Introduces the core leadership theory you need to know, using case studies and reflective activities to show how it relates to your practice * Updated throughout, including new activities and discussions of compassionate leadership and emotional intelligence. * Builds your understanding of the challenging aspects of leadership including managing conflict, being assertive and leading service improvement
Leadership is central to all aspects of the nursing role, from managing the delivery of high quality care to acting as a role model for best practice. Written specifically for nursing students, this book introduces you to the principles and practice of leadership, management and multi-disciplinary team working. Key features: * Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards * Introduces the core leadership theory you need to know, using case studies and reflective activities to show how it relates to your practice * Updated throughout, including new activities and discussions of compassionate leadership and emotional intelligence. * Builds your understanding of the challenging aspects of leadership including managing conflict, being assertive and leading service improvement
Mastering Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes for Success
Featuring chapters written by experienced nurses, Interprofessional Leadership for Nurses: Mastering Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes for Success provides students with salient advice from the field to help them develop into competent and effective health care professionals with leadership skills. Over the course of nine chapters, students ......
A Team Guide to Systems Change in Education, Health Care, and Social Welfare
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 ......
Effective communication is at the heart of the nursing role. From providing person-centred care to collaborating with the multi-disciplinary team, this book will develop your communication and interpersonal skills and support you in finding your own voice. It equips you with key theory and principles and shows how to apply them to practice, from communicating with compassion to overcoming barriers to communication. This is your go to guide for effective communication in your everyday practice. Key features: ? Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards ? Takes a lifespan approach, covering communication with different groups across all fields of practice ? Content and examples explore communication in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion, encouraging culturally competent and emotionally intelligent practice ? Filled with activities and case studies to support critical thinking, reflection and application of theory to everyday nursing practice
Transition from student to professional with confidence. Stepping out of the classroom and into professional nursing practice can be stressful. This handy guide will build your confidence and prepare you to meet the challenges you'll face as a new staff nurse in today's dynamic health-care environments. You'll explore your future responsibilities ......
