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Explore nursing leadership, delegation, ethics, and transition to RN roles.
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Digital Textbook: Available Now
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Audiobook: August 2025
Next Edition: 2027
Print Textbook: Available Now
Audiobook: August 2025
Next Edition: 2027
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Nursing Management and Professional Concepts introduces students to essential topics in nursing leadership, management, and professional practice. This textbook covers key areas such as prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal and ethical implications of nursing practice, interprofessional collaboration, healthcare economics, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, advocacy, and transitioning into the RN role. It also emphasizes the importance of self-care to prevent burnout. Each chapter includes interactive learning activities and NCLEX Next Generation-style case studies to help students develop clinical judgment and apply concepts to real-world client-care scenarios. Ideal for nursing students transitioning into professional practice, this resource equips future registered nurses with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in leadership roles and deliver high-quality, ethical, and patient-centered care.
Chapter 2: Prioritization
- Prioritize nursing care based on client acuity
- Use principles of time management to organize work
- Analyze effectiveness of time management strategies
- Incorporate clinical judgment to prioritize nursing care
- Apply a framework for prioritization
Chapter 3: Delegation and Supervision
- Prioritize nursing care based on client acuity
- Use principles of time management to organize work
- Analyze effectiveness of time management strategies
- Incorporate clinical judgment to prioritize nursing care
- Apply a framework for prioritization
Chapter 4: Leadership and Management
- Differentiate the role of leader and manager
- Examine the roles of team members
- Identify steps in the management process and activities that managers perform
- Describe the role of the RN as a leader and change agent
- Discuss effects of power, empowerment, and motivation in leading and managing a nursing team
Chapter 5: Legal Implications
- Examine competent practice within the legal framework of health care
- Analyze legal dilemmas of nursing practice utilizing professional and industry standards
- Examine how negligence and malpractice apply to nursing practice
- Practice within the legal framework of the Nurse Practice Act
- Examine the role of the nurse when observing illegal and/or unsafe practices
Chapter 6: Ethical Practice
- Compare theories of ethical decision making
- Examine resources to resolve ethical dilemmas
- Examine competent practice within the ethical framework of health care
- Apply the ANA Code of Ethics to diverse situations in health care
- Analyze the impact of cultural diversity in ethical decision making
- Explain advocacy as part of the nursing role when responding to ethical dilemmas
Chapter 7: Collaboration Within the Interprofessional Team
- Describe how nurses collaborate with the healthcare team to coordinate appropriate healthcare services for clients
- Describe collegial and professional practice within the healthcare team
- Identify members of the team and describe their contributions to optimize client outcomes
- Explore community resources to maximize a client’s functional abilities
- Describe procedures used to safely admit, transfer, and/or discharge clients
Chapter 8: Health Care Economics
- Summarize the requirements of funding and reimbursement sources for client care services
- Explore how political, social, and demographic trends have affected the client population and delivery of health care
- Analyze the link between economics and quality
- Describe nursing strategies to provide cost-effective care
- Examine economic pressures impacting case management and the management of institutional resources
- Describe the impact of evidence-based practice on health care economics and client care outcomes
Chapter 9: Quality and Evidence-Based Practice
- Examine the role of utilization review and continuous quality improvement
- Describe the role of research in providing evidence-based, quality client care
- Identify the accreditation process for agencies
- Explain quality client care based on standards of nursing practice
- Examine the role of government, nursing, and other organizations in developing standards for quality nursing practice
- Explain how informatics systems promote quality and safety in health care delivery
- Examine the role of the nurse in workplace quality improvement processes
Chapter 10: Advocacy
- Assess the effects of current health care policies on health care consumers and nursing practice
- Explore the role of professional organizations in nursing practice
- Discuss legislative policy-making activities that influence nursing practice and health care
- Examine various positions on unions and collective bargaining
- Compare various workplace advocacy models
Chapter 11: Preparation for the RN Role
- Develop a current professional resume or portfolio
- Identify steps for preparing for the NCLEX-RN examination
- Identify actions for obtaining nursing credential
- Identify strategies for successful nursing interviews
- Develop goals for lifelong learning and professional development
Chapter 12: Burnout and Self-Care
- Identify the impact of situational stressors within the nursing profession
- Develop strategies to mitigate stress and burnout and maintain engagement in the profession
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