As the health care delivery environment changes and reorganizes, this timely text provides a framework for new nurses launching positions requiring polished leadership skills. Focusing on situations that require critical, creative thinking about leadership, Handbook of Nursing Leadership provides extensive real-life case studies and interactive exercises for discussion and for fine-tuning the nurse’s communication, delegation, documentation, and leadership skills.
Handbook of Nursing Leadership:
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Presents alternative dispute resolution
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Accentuates and reinforces active learning and critical thinking
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provides extensive web resources for additional learning
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Uses key words from the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
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Encourages and expands upon the communication skills that nurses are taught in their earlier nursing education
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Concentrates on delegation and documentation
Final chapters in the book explore the opportunities and career tracks available to new nurses, and go on to help the reader construct a plan in which leadership can become an integral part of their nursing career.
