Quality and Safety
Chapter 17 Quality and Safety Luc R. Pelletier http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ In this era of health care reform, accountability is taking center stage. Health care quality and safety principles and practices form…
Leadership and Management Principles
Chapter 1 Leadership and Management Principles Diane L. Huber Photo used with permission from Photos.com. http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ LEADERSHIP AND CARE MANAGEMENT DIFFERENTIATED In nursing, leadership is studied as a way of…
Confronting the Nursing Shortage
Chapter 20 Confronting the Nursing Shortage Linda L. Workman http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ DEFINITIONS A nursing shortage is a condition in which the delicate balance of nurse supply and nurse demand is not…
Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing Out Nursing
Chapter 22 Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing Out Nursing Mary Ellen Murray http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ National Health Expenditures (NHEs) are a measure of spending for health care in the United States. In 1998,…
Organizational Structure
Chapter 13 Organizational Structure Raquel M. Meyer http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ Structure refers to the arrangement of the parts within a larger whole. Organizations are entities that contain groupings which consolidate smaller elements…
Power and Conflict
Chapter 10 Power and Conflict Kathleen B. Cox http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ POWER For many nurses, power has had a negative connotation. With major issues and challenges facing the health care delivery system…
Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills
Chapter 4 Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills Betsy Frank http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ In an era of changing reimbursements, value based purchasing, and expanded roles for nursing in the health care delivery system,…
Staffing and Scheduling
Chapter 21 Staffing and Scheduling Sharon Eck Birmingham, Beth Pickard and Lori Carson http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ Nurse staffing methodology should be an orderly, systematic process, based upon sound rationale, applied to determine…
Communication Leadership
Chapter 7 Communication Leadership Diane L. Huber http://evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ Communication is a process in which information, perception, and understanding are transmitted from person to person. As an integral part of any…
