in a High Reliability Health Care Organization. It discusses Organization and Staffing of Patient Care at the Unit Level, as well as Health Care Economics and the Hospital, Department, and Unit Budget. Unit 2 discusses Leadership and Management of Patient‐Centered Care. This Unit reviews Patient and Health Care Education, Evidence‐Based Practice, Searching for the Evidence, Quality Improvement, and Improving Quality at the Unit Level, along with Safety for the Patient and Health Care Team. Lastly, Informatics is also discussed. Unit 3 discusses Nursing Leadership and the Interprofessional Team. This Unit reviews Interprofessional Teamwork and Collaboration and Members of the Interprofessional Team. It discusses Delegation, Assignment, and Supervision of Patient Care, Time Management and Setting Priorities, Change, Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning. Power and Politics, Legal Aspects of Nursing, Ethical Aspects of Nursing, and Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality are also discussed. Unit 4 discusses Leadership and Management of Self and the Future. This Unit discusses NCLEX‐RN Preparation, Entry into the Profession—Your First Job, Career Planning and Achieving Balance, Balancing A Healthy Personal and Professional Life, and Nursing Career Opportunities. Numerous additions and supplemental offerings have been made to the text to increase understanding and broaden your learning experience. Some of these are outlined below.
All chapters have been revised to reflect current practice.
A strong foundation for evidence‐based health care with attention to high‐quality, safe care is emphasized throughout the text.
The role of the entry level staff nurse in nursing leadership and management at the bedside is emphasized and provides a framework for understanding how the new nurse is a leader and manager and can make a difference within the health care system.
Quality and Safety in Education (QSEN) competencies have been emphasized, with chapters on each of the 6 QSEN competencies, i.e., Quality Improvement, Patient‐Centered Care, Evidence‐Based Care, Informatics, Teamwork and Collaboration, and Safety, as well as an additional chapter on Searching for the Evidence in the Literature.
Chapters on Nursing Leadership and Management in a Historical Context and Organization of Patient Care in High Reliability Health Care Organizations have been added.
All chapters have been updated to include new information from national and state health care and nursing organizations, e.g., the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and The Joint Commission (TJC) on patient quality and safety.
Content on delegation, setting patient care priorities, budgeting, and health care economics, has been significantly reworked and expanded.
The chapter on NCLEX‐RN licensure preparation helps students ensure that they are prepared for licensure by including a mini‐nutrition chart, mini‐medication chart, tips on preparing for the Next Generation NCLEX‐RN licensure examination, and information on clinical reasoning, available at http://www.ncsbn.org/14172.htm, accessed June 16, 2020.
Review questions are included in all chapters to help students test their knowledge and prepare for course exams. Review question formats include single choice and multiple option style questions.
The Appendix include a Glossary of Key Terms and Answers to Chapter Review Questions for student and Faculty use.
Several Appendix documents illustrating Preparation for new nurses and hour‐by‐hour schedules for a Labor and Delivery (L & D) patient care unit and various other patient care units are provided. There are also photos illustrating various elements of patient care.
A new website, accessed at www.wiley.com/go/kelly-Nursing-Leadership, is provided including:
Faculty resources
Additional online review questions with answers for each chapter
Student resources Online
PowerPoint for each chapter
Tables and Figures for all chapters
Chapter Review question answers
Glossary of Key Terms
1.1 Chapter Features
Several standard chapter features are utilized throughout the text, which provide the reader with a consistent format for learning and an assortment of resources for understanding and applying the knowledge presented. Chapter features include the following:
Health care or nursing quote related to chapter content
Objectives that state the chapter's learning goals
Opening scenario, a mini entry‐level nursing case study that relates to the chapter, with critical thinking questions, which are discussed at the end of each chapter
Photos, Figures, and Tables to clarify chapter content
Key Concepts, a listing of the primary understandings the reader is to take from the chapter
Key Terms, a listing of important new terms defined in the chapter
NCLEX‐RN style Review Questions at the end of each chapter. Answers available to students at the end of each chapter
Review Activities, a reflection of chapter content applied to entry‐level real‐world nursing situations
Discussion Points, critical thinking elements for discussion in student groups and/or the classroom
Exploring the Web, websites related to chapter content
Informatics, website exercise to develop informatics skill of student, including one website exercise that takes the student to the Quality and Safety in Nursing (QSEN) website, www.qsen.org
Lean Back, questions related to chapter that encourage reflective thinking
References for chapter
Suggested Reading for further development of thinking related to chapter
Special elements are sprinkled throughout the chapters to enhance student learning and encourage critical thinking. These include:
Evidence from the Literature with synopsis of key findings from nursing and health care literature
Real World Interviews with health care leaders and managers, including nursing staff, clinicians, administrators, quality improvement staff, faculty, nursing and medical practitioners, patients, nursing assistive personnel (NAP), librarians, and lawyers
Critical Thinking exercises regarding an ethical, legal, cultural, spiritual, delegation, or quality improvement nursing or health care topic
Case Studies to provide the entry‐level nurse with a clinical nursing leadership/management situation calling for critical thinking to solve a health care problem
