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By
Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, PhD, RN, CS, CNAA, FAAN, Senior Partner, Tim Porter-O'Grady Associates, LLC, Otto, NC; Associate Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, President, Malloch & Associates, Inc., Glendale; Faculty Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Description
2007 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner
Managing for Success in Health Care is a unique and innovative new reference manual for
practicing nurse and health care managers designed to provide practical, to-the-point guidance on how to face the challenges of health
care management in the twenty-first century. This book addresses issues such as increased workloads, budget and staffing cuts, and ongoing
legislative changes that have altered the face of health care over the last decade and provides practical advice and information for
managers.
Contents
UNIT 1: Team Development and Leadership
1. Effective Teams
2. Managing Conflict
3. Team Performance:
Evaluating Results
4. Transformation and Transitions
5. Transforming Teams for Decisions
UNIT 2: Building
Decision-Making Skills
1. Making Effective Decisions
2. Leading the Adult-to-Adult Workplace: Who Am I Leading?
3.
Creating a Context for Empowerment: Structuring for Shared Decision Making
4. Engaging Decision Makers: Empowering Others to Lead
5.
The Person of the Leader: How Do I Lead?
UNIT 3: Accountability
1. Performance Accountability: Competence
for the Work
2. Role Accountability: The Ownership of Work
3. Accountability and Excellence
4. Accountability and
Evidence
UNIT 4: Structuring for Excellence: Building a Context for Retention
1. Structuring for Excellence:
What is Structure?
2. Supporting the Structure
3. Staff Leadership
4. Advancing the Practice of Nursing
5.
Sustaining Excellence
UNIT 5: Searching for Excellence: Recruiting the Best
1. Assessing the Workplace
2.
Market Realities of Recruiting
3. Selling Your Organization
4. Interviewing for Excellence
5. Socializing New Employees
UNIT
6: Building the Future of Excellence: Mentoring, Learning, and Living Leadership
1. Synthesis: The New Role of the Leader
2.
Modeling and Mentoring Leadership
3. Managing Risk and Vulnerability
4. Practice in a World of Uncertain Expectations
5.
Building Relationships in the New Age of Work
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 656 pages, publication date: SEP-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03427-2
ISBN-10: 0-323-03427-6
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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