Administration & Management

Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty (Billings, Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty)

This complete faculty guide covers the four major components of the educator role - teaching, curriculum, information technology, and evaluation of students and programs - with comprehensive, contemporary guidelines to help you develop the educator competencies needed to ensure your success in today's complex health care and academic environments. This respected title is also one of the National League for Nursing's recommended resources for nurses preparing to take the Certified Nurse Educator examination.

• Nationally recognized contributing authors share their expertise to bring you the best and most comprehensive information available.
• Presents innovative models of clinical teaching that show you how to effectively teach in an interdisciplinary setting, how to evaluate students in the clinical setting, and how to adapt your teaching for community-based practice.li>
• Strategies to promote critical thinking and active learning, including evaluation techniques, lesson planning, and constructing examinations, help you ensure students can apply and synthesize nursing content to make clinical decisions.li>
• Web links with numerous resources related to each chapter topic, available through the Evolve website, provide even more learning opportunities.

• Managing the Learning Environment chapter addresses classroom management and control, motivating and engaging students, and handling disruptive or problem students.
• Multicultural Education chapter provides strategies for effectively teaching and communicating with a culturally diverse student population.
• An entire chapter on simulations presents the development, implementation, and evaluation of simulations so you can successfully integrate this teaching method into your course.
• Reflecting on the Evidence feature at the end of each chapter provides questions that are perfect for classroom and online discussion.

Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration

Demonstrates once again why professional and instructors nationwide rely on George Pozgar to make the study of the legal aspects of health care administration meaningful and memorable.

NURSE: A World of Care

To care. To advocate. To innovate. To be a nurse. In a moving tapestry of words and photographs, Nurse: A World of Care, documents and celebrates the vital and often invisible work of nurses throughout the globe. The many faces and voices of nurses are captured in compelling detail by photographer Karen Kasmauski and writer Peter Jaret. Together they paint an unforgettable and varied portrait of the profession, from the nurse midwives who walk long distances to deliver basic health care in the remote villages of Bangladesh, to the Alaska public health nurse who lives out of a sleeping bag to reach her patients, to the Thai hospice nurses who comfort and care for patients with AIDS. Nursing requires expertise, ingenuity, and a deep sense of compassion. Like the profession it celebrates, this book appeals to both hearts and minds. Around the world, health care delivery systems are in crisis. In the poorest places, millions of people lack access to even the most basic care. In the world s prosperous nations, the soaring cost of advanced medicine has begun to exact a crippling strain on budgets. High-tech medicine saves lives, but it has also led to impersonal health care systems that leave many patients feeling confused and sometimes abandoned. Shortages of nurses, meanwhile, have left rural clinics and state-of-the-art hospitals alike dangerously understaffed. Nursing itself is rising to the challenge. Innovative programs, many of them created by nurses, offer solutions to the most pressing problems we face. As this book powerfully argues, nursing is critical to delivering health care in every corner of the world. Nurses are there when life begins and when it ends offering expertise, comfort, and care. Only by recognizing and supporting their work can we hope to heal our ailing health care systems and ensure that nurses will continue to be there when we need them most.

Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts (Acute and Chronic Wounds Current Management Concepts)

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this all-inclusive resource provides clinicians with a strong knowledge base for understanding the complete spectrum of wound care, including the structure of the skin, its functions, types of skin damage, physiology of wound healing, and general principles of wound management. Seven new chapters cover Principles of Practice Development; Skin Care Needs of the Obese Patient; Foot and Nail Care; Facilitating Adaptation; Support Surfaces; Devices and Technology in Wound Care; and Reimbursement and Billing. Recent advances in disease etiology, diagnosis, and treatment are discussed in appropriate chapters and each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and closes with review questions.

• Authored and contributed by respected experts in wound care management - members of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) and Wound Healing Society (WHS).
• Risk assessment scales are included to assist with determining a patient's risk for developing a wound.
• Assessment tools are provided to assist the clinician with wound evaluation, care, and treatment.
• Patient compliance and guidance on how to identify and resolve issues of non-compliance are discussed in the new Facilitating Adaptation chapter.
• The multidisciplinary approach to wound care management is discussed in a single chapter and applied throughout the text to demonstrate how this approach works and why it is critical to successful patient outcomes.
• A wound care product formulary lists wound care products by category, usage guidelines (indications and precautions), and helpful hints is included to facilitate outcomes measurement and quality improvement.
• Algorithms demonstrate the critical steps for topical wound care management.
• Key information is highlighted in box or table format to enable the user to quickly focus on selected information.
• Clearly defined chapter objectives provide a focused guide to key elements within each chapter.
• A self-assessment exercise is included at the end of each chapter to provide a review of critical chapter concepts.

• Seven new chapters: The Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Wound Management; Skin Care Needs of the Obese Patient; Foot and Nail Care; Facilitating Adaptation; Support Surfaces; Devices and Technology in Wound Care; and Reimbursement and Billing.
• Revisions to every chapter reflect the most recent advances in disease etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Updated content reflects the latest technologic advances and therapies to strengthen the clinician's knowledge base in available treatment options.
• Assessment tools to assist the clinician with evaluation, care, and treatment.
• Explanation of how to set up a practice and the principles of practice development.

From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, Commemorative Edition (Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice)

This coherent presentation of clinical judgement, caring practices and collaborative practice provides ideas and images that readers can draw upon in their interactions with others and in their interpretation of what nurses do. It includes many clear, colorful examples and describes the five stages of skill acquisition, the nature of clinical judgement and experiential learning and the seven major domains of nursing practice. The narrative method captures content and contextual issues that are often missed by formal models of nursing knowledge. The book uncovers the knowledge embedded in clinical nursing practice and provides the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition applied to nursing, an interpretive approach to identifying and describing clinical knowledge, nursing functions, effective management, research and clinical practice, career development and education, plus practical applications. For nurses and healthcare professionals.

Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior

Written by nationally known experts in the field, this text brings a systematic understanding of organizational principles, practices, and insight to the management of health services organizations. While based on state-of-the-art organizational theory and research, the emphasis is on application through Features such as "In the Real World" and "Debate Times" which present actual situations and challenge the reader to provide a solution or a philosophical position. The clinical enterprise model is introduced in this new edition, and is fully developed in chapter 2.

Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing: Theory and Application

Leading and Managing in Nursing

Elsevier's #1 nursing management text, Leading and Managing in Nursing, 4th Edition, offers an innovative approach by merging theory, research, and practical application in key leadership and management areas. It is organized around issues that are central to the success of professional nurses in today's constantly changing healthcare environment including consumer relationships, cultural diversity, and communication. This 4th edition is thoroughly updated and revised to better prepare students for the nursing leadership and management issues of today and tomorrow.

• Each chapter opens with The Challenge, a contemporary nurse's real-world concern related to the chapter's focus that encourages readers to think about what they would do in a similar situation. Possible answers are discussed in The Solution at the end of each chapter.
• Every chapter contains numbered exercises that provide experiential reinforcement of key leading and managing skills and challenge students to think critically about concepts in the text to apply them to real-life situations.
• Research and Literature Perspective boxes summarize articles of interest and point out their relevance and applicability to practice.
• Theory Boxes highlight and summarize pertinent theoretical concepts reinforcing key points of chapter content as a quick reference for students.
• Objectives articulate the chapter's learning goals, which are typically at the application level or higher.
• Questions to Consider stimulate learners to think about their personal viewpoint or experience with the topics and issues discussed in the chapter.
• The Application Activity section is a built-in, perforated tool to help students self-assess and evaluate their learning and understanding of the content in the text.
• The vivid full-color chapter opener photographs and other photographs throughout the text help convey each chapter's key message while providing a glimpse into the real world of nursing.

• New chapters on Translating Research into Practice and Thriving for the Future emphasize the importance of research in nursing, as well as the potential for growth into leadership roles as a nurse.
• The table of contents has been reorganized to consolidate core concepts, resources, change, and interpersonal and personal skills.

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, Second Edition

Designed to meet the needs of both novice and advanced practitioners, the first edition of Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice established standards and defined the core curriculum of legal nurse consulting. It also guided the development of the certification examination administered by the American Legal Nurse Consultant Certification Board. The extensive revisions and additions in Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition make this bestselling reference even more indispensable. The most significant change is the inclusion of 15 new chapters, each of which highlights an important aspect of legal nurse consulting practice: Entry into the Specialty Certification Nursing Theory: Applications to Legal Nurse Consulting Elements of Triage for Medical Malpractice Evaluating Nursing Home Cases Principles of Evaluating Personal Injury Cases Common Mechanisms of Injury in Personal Injury Cases ERISA and HMO Litigation The LNC as Case Manager Report Preparation Locating and Working with Expert Witnesses The Role of the LNC in Preparation of Technical Demonstrative Evidence Marketing Growing a Business Business Ethics Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition presents up-to-date, practical information on consulting in a variety of practice environments and legal areas. Whether you are an in-house LNC or you work independently, this book is your definitive guide to legal nurse consulting.

Essentials of Managed Health Care (MANAGED HEALTH CARE HANDBOOK ( KONGSTVEDT))

As the most widely-used textbook on managed care, Essentials of Managed Health Care provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of managed health care and health insurance. With a primary focus on the commercial sector, the book also addresses managed health care in Medicare, Medicaid, and military medical care. An historical overview and a discussion of taxonomy and functional differences between different forms of managed health care provide the framework for the operational aspects of the industry as well. This revision includes updates to all chapters, as well as: New chapters on disease management, case management, pharmacy benefits management, behavioral health management, prevention, and the use of data and analysis in care management. New chapters on claims administration, sales and marketing, healthcare consumerism, and the employer s view of managed health care. Completely revised chapter on the new Medicare/Medicaid laws and programs. New chapters on the military health system and managed care in a global context. New chapter on HIPAA.