Nursing Leadership Management and Professional Practice for the LPN LVN or Whats Happening to Public Higher Education

Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN

Author: Mary Ann Anderson

KEY FEATURES

• The only book that provides leadership and management content designed specifically for the LPN, updated to reflect the latest changes in clinical practice
• Offers a strong focus on the leadership/management skills needed for practice in a variety of clinical settings, including acute, subacute, long-term, community, and home care, with particular emphasis on long-term care
• Includes "real-world" case studies with related critical thinking exercises at the end of each chapter; answers are provided at the end of each chapter
• Numerous critical thinking and values clarification exercises on perforated pages that can be removed and submitted as homework
• Offers chapters on communication skills, team building, and making assignments
• New chapter on chaos theory and its application to the high-stress health care environment in which LPN/LVNs work
• Expanded coverage of legal issues relating to the LPN/LVN leadership and management roles
• Includes pedagogical aids such as learning objectives, NCLEX-style review questions, and reference lists/bibliographies for each chapter

Table of Contents:

1	Historical Perspective of the Licensed Practical Nurse	1
2	Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing	17
3	Entry into Practice	35
4	Employment Process	56
5	Understanding Nursing Leadership and Management as a Concept	72
6	Communication Skills	97
7	Understanding Benefits of Change	119
8	Welcome to Conflict	133
9	Understanding Use of Power	155
10	Ethics and Nursing Management	174
11	Motivating Employees	190
12	Team Building	209
13	Making Assignments, Counseling, and Analyzing Performance	223

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What's Happening to Public Higher Education?

Author: Ronald G Ehrenberg

Public higher educational institutions, where about 80 percent of all college students and 65 percent of all four-year college students are educated, appear to be in serious trouble. In order to delve more deeply into his topic, Dr. Ehrenberg invited a wide-ranging team of experts to examine changes in public higher education over the last quarter century, and to present their findings at a conference at Cornell University in May 2005. Edited versions of their papers are presented here. The authors of the essays are leading researchers from around the country who have intensively studied the causes of the changing finances of public higher education and the ways in which these changes have affected public higher education institutions, their students, and their potential students.