Author Description

Used worldwide, this award-winning book is now offered in an updated, revised edition to reflect the many changes in health care and nursing. Targeted to both practicing nurses and those in management, this book helps all nurses acquire the skills they need to be successful in today's dynamic health care environment. In the ever-changing health care environment, never nurses have needed this information more. Tools for using the skills presented in each chapter, case studies with a manager's checklist, critical thinking questions, key terms, an easy-to-read format, and a link to online instruction for students and faculty are among the updates to this widely-used book. Also new are sections on the retention of nurses and workplace violence prevention. Section on technology, especially networking among information systems and linking clinical data (eg, monitoring device records) with information systems have been expanded. Useful to Nurse Managers or Administrators.