Nurse Staffing 101 is a resource for RNs in developing effective and facility-specific approaches to optimal staffing decisions and plans. It covers the essential topics: Historical and political setting of safe staffing; Workplace, safety, and quality considerations; Examples of professional nursing practice models; Staffing at the organizational level in terms of workload variances; Current practices and possible solutions for determining and achieving...

Shared governance structures, with all their intrinsic complexities, responsibilities, and accountabilities, must be carefully designed and Implemented to be sustained. This book takes some of the guesswork out of the various structures and processes behind shared governance and provides strategies, case examples, and best practices to make the daily operations of shared governance meaningful, successful, and sustainable. It is designed to provide...

Ce nouvel ouvrage va permettre d'informer des avancements en gestion des soins infirmiers et au sein de la discipline infirmière qui est de plus en plus culturellement diversifiée. Il comporte de l'information sur l'imputabilité, les différents rles, les responsabilités, les qualifications et les normes éthiques nécessaires pour servir de guide à l'infirmière souhaitant exercer la fonction de gestionnaire des soins infirmiers au Québec. Cet...

“A Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Writing a Dissertation or Scholarly Project”, Third Edition, is a straightforward how-to guide. This book is intentionally concise because, let's be honest, the last thing a busy candidate needs is another unwieldy, doorstop

Do you know what work you can, or should, delegate? What tasks can you assign to patient care assistants (PCA), or to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)? Can licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) delegate responsibilities? Since the final professional decision to proceed with delegation to UAPs ultimately rests with the RN, you need to be vigilant and understand the proper delegation process. Delegation and You,...

Stärken Sie Ihre Führungsrolle! Führung im Gesundheitswesen ist anspruchsvoll und Fachwissen allein reicht nicht, um eine gute Führungskraft zu sein. Während in den Fort- und Weiterbildungen meist harte Fakten vermittelt werden, bleibt die Schulung der soft-skills wie Gesprächsführung, Selbstmarketing und Motivation oft auf der Strecke. Stärken Sie daher Ihre Führungskompetenzen durch gezielte Trainingsmethoden. In diesem Handbuch finden...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS Welcome to Long-term Care is a simple short guide that provides information to the nurse in long-term care. It is in laymen’s terms and is a realistic approach so anyone, from a nursing assistant to nurse director can put it into practice. What I've found throughout my career, is the lack of mentorship that companies provide to staff to assist in both personal and professional growth and development. Mentorship is so, needed...

Did you know that the data used for measuring and safety purposes actually comes directly from the information on patient care you document daily? You generate the data - now it's time to own it! "Data Makes the Difference: The Smart Nurse's Handbook for Using Data to Improve Care" helps RNs like you understand how to use accurate and meaningful quality and safety data in your practice. It demystifies data and counters the negative, incorrect perception...

Being a competent bedside nurse is not the end-all goal … it's only the beginning. The highly acclaimed author of Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for Your Patients and Yourself and Admit One: What You Must Know When Going to the Hospital – But No One Actually Tells You!, Kati Kleber, BSN, RN, CCRN, delivers provocative and candid answers to the basic questions about professional development that every nurse should...

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Lehrende in Pflege-und Gesundheitsberufen und zeigt, wie man digitale Medien für das Lehren und Lernen erfolgreich einbindet. Die erfahrene Autorin bietet sowohl den theoretischen Background, als auch kreative Ideen und neue Impulse zu den verschiedenen Medienangeboten. Dabei stellt die Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis den inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt dar und baut so ganz konkret eventuell bestehende Hürden und Vorurteile...