Leading and Managing in Nursing

AORN Journal,  Nov, 2004  by Cynthia D. Turner

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Leading and Managing in Nursing, third edition Patricia S. Yoder-Wise 2003, 656 pp $44.95 paperback

Professional nurses are expected to lead and manage in the health care arenas in which they work. This book is a good learning tool and resource for senior nursing students and new nurses entering management or leadership positions.

This textbook contains 27 chapters that cover a wide range of leadership and management topics, including leader and manager development, legal and ethical issues, strategic planning, managing costs, staffing and scheduling issues, communication, managing conflict, care delivery strategies, and technology, that every nurse should be aware of and understand in the ever-changing health care field. Every chapter thoroughly covers its subject and provides an actual management or leadership challenge. Readers can consider how they would handle the situation presented, and at the end of the chapter, the individual who was actually involved in the challenge provides his or her solution. This allows readers to compare their solution to the way the challenge was solved in real life. The book's contributors, who have diverse work backgrounds and are from different areas of the United States and Canada, provide a wide and varied perspective on the issues presented.

The book provides formulas to determine the relationship of price and use rates, workload calculations, productive-hours calculations, volume statistics, full-time equivalents, and labor costs per unit of service--all of which nurse managers and leaders use routinely to evaluate costs and savings for their respective departments. The book also contains numerous tables, graphs, and charts to illustrate information and promote understanding. The book includes a workbook with learning activities for every chapter, along with information about a web site that was developed by Mosby/Elsevier to enhance learning and provide updated information in the field of nursing leadership and management.

The information provided in this textbook is used daily by every nursing leader and manager. I recommend this book to instructors in nursing programs who wish to student nurses with valuable leadership and management information and skills, as well as new nurses entering leadership or management roles.

This book is available from Mosby/Elsevier, 11830 Westline Industrial Dr, St. Louis, MO 63146.

CYNTHIA D. TURNER

RN, MSN, CNOR, CDR, NC, USN

PERIOPERATIVE NURSING INSTRUCTOR NAVAL HOSPITAL CAMP PENDLETON

CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF

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