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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
UNIT I: INTRODUCTION: America's health care environment -- Basic clinical health care economics -- UNIT II: A NEW HEALTH CARE MODEL: Evidence-based health care -- Nursing and health care informatics -- Population-based health care practice -- Personal and interdisciplinary communication -- Politics and consumer partnerships -- UNIT III: PLANNING CARE: Leadership and management -- Strategic planning and organizing patient care -- Effective team building -- Budget concepts for patient care -- Effective staffing -- Delegation of nursing care -- UNIT IV: MANAGING CARE: First-line patient care management -- Patient teaching -- Change and conflict resolutions -- Power -- Time management -- UNIT V: EVALUATION: Managing outcomes using an organizational quality improvement model -- Strategies to improve patient care outcomes -- Decision making -- UNIT VI: OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONSIDERATIONS: Legal aspects of patient care -- Ethical dimensions of patient care -- Cultural diversity and spirituality -- Collective bargaining -- UNIT VII: PREPARATION FOR ENTRY-LEVEL NURSING PRACTICE: Career planning -- Emerging opportunities -- Your first job -- Healthy living: personal and professional needs.