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Now revised and updated to include the latest strategies for improving nursing leadership and management skills, this popular text offers in-depth coverage and practical management strategies for such workplace issues as delegation, diversity, stress management, and quality improvement.
This textbook provides in-depth descriptions and analyses of 31 specific nursing theories. This edition offers 2 new chapters and a concise outline and summary of each theory's most significant ideas, as well as clarifying content-specific vocabulary.
This well-respected text teaches nursing students about leadership and the management process and supplies the practicing nurse with practical information about nursing administration. In response to the dramatic changes in health care in recent years, this sixth edition expands both content and focus by discussing delegation, team development, cost containment, health care networks, mergers and acquisitions, community-based practice, and continuous quality improvement. It focuses on current trends that include technology, ethics, diversity, and managed care. (Includes a FREE MERLIN website at:www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Marriner/guide/) Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-526-X
This text provides nurses studying leadership theory with insight and guidance in motivating and leading staff. The concepts of transformational leadership are explored to direct the nurse leader in increasing productivity and retention of staff.
The end of each chapter direct you to assets available for additional information. Need to know information is highlighted in at-a-glance summary boxes throughout to help you quickly review key concepts. Personal quotes from the theorists help you gain insight and make each complex theory more memorable. Updated references include only published works to ensure accuracy and credibility.
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The most comprehensive of its kind, this classic resource in the field of nursing theory provides an in-depth look at 49 theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. Each chapter features a clear, consistent presentation of a key nursing philosophy or theory. Case studies and critical thinking activities help bridge the gap between theory and application. A case study at the end of each theorist chapter puts the theory into a larger perspective, helping you understand how the information can be applied to practice. A Major Concepts & Definitions box in each theorist chapter outlines and summarizes the theory’s most significant ideas and clarifies content-specific voc...
This groundbreaking text is the most complete and detailed book devoted to middle-range theories and their applications in clinical nursing research. The book thoroughly explains the process of selecting an appropriate theory for a particular nursing research study and sets forth criteria for critiquing theories. Each chapter includes examples of research using middle-range theories, definitions of key terms, analysis exercises, reference lists, and relevant Websites. Instruments are presented in appendices. New features of this edition include analysis questions for all theories; new chapters on learning theory and physiologic middle-range theories; "Part" introductions to frame the selection process for each middle-range theory chosen; and a glossary of terms.
This resource in the field of nursing theory provides an in-depth look at 49 theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. Each chapter features a presentation of a key nursing philosophy or theory. Case studies and critical thinking activities help bridge the gap between theory and application. A case study at the end of each theorist chapter puts the theory into a larger perspective, explaining how the information can be applied to practice. A Major Concepts & Definitions box in each theorist chapter outlines and summarizes the theory's most significant ideas and clarifies content specific vocabulary. Each theorist chapter concludes with an extensive bibliography outl...