Includes bibliographical references and index.

Integrating leadership roles and management function --
Tools for leadership and management problem solving --
The planning hierarchy and strategic planning --
Planned change --
Time management --
Fiscal planning --
Organizational structure --
Authority and power in organizations --
Organizing patient care --
Preliminary staffing functions: from recruitment through orientation --
Meeting staff socialization and educational needs for team building --
Staffing needs and scheduling policies --
Creating a motivating climate --
Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication --
Delegation --
Managing conflict --
Potential constraints affecting directing: unions and employment laws --
Quality control --
Performance appraisal --
Creating a growth-producing work environment through discipline --
Employees with special needs --
Ethical issues --
Legal and legislative issues --
Career development issues.

This hands-on nursing management text offers preparation for tomorrow's nursing leaders. It emphasizes critical thinking and problem solving. Case studies bring basic theories of nursing management to life, and there are tips on collaborative care, personnel management and documentation.