Nursing Leadership

Description

Nursing Leadership covers contemporary concepts in leadership and management and their application to nursing practice. In addition to covering the fundamentals, a wide range of current topics are addressed including: change management, contemporary approaches to nursing care delivery & health outcomes evaluation; developing & enhancing quality in nursing practice; research based practice; cultural change processes; shared governance; development & leadership of staff; quality of work life issues; quality work environments; and industrial relations. Nursing Leadership provides a fresh innovative approach to the topic and is designed to stimulate interest in theory and concepts as well as providing the reader with strategies that can be readily tested and applied in practice.

Readership

Undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. Practising nurses and managers,

Author Information

By John Daly, RN, BA, BHSc (Nurs), MEd (Hons), PhD, FCN (NSW), FRCNA, Professor and Head, School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia; Sandra Speedy, RN, BA (Hons), DipEd, MURP, EdD, MAPS, FANZCMHN, Professor and Director of Nursing, Graduate College of Management, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia; and Debra Jackson, RN, CommNursCert BHSc(Nurs), Mnurs PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, College of Social and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia