Description: Contents: INTRODUCTION TO THE MODEL * Environment: The Health Care System and Its Institutions * The Resource-Driven Model * BUILDING A NURSING PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE * Nurse Executive As Strategist * Analyzing Nursing Theories * Model for Nursing Practice * Nursing Division Philosophy * Nursing Division's Mission and Objectives * Nursing Goals and Management Goals * BUILDING THE STRUCTURE * Governance Structures * Organization and Departmentalization * Committee Structure * Restructured Practice * Case Management * BUILDING THE CULTURE AND THE VALUES * Values-Based Leadership * Ethics: Impact on Goals and Practices * Empowering Staff in Today's Care Environment * MANAGING PRODUCTIVITY * Concertizing Goal Statements: Functions and Standards * Policies, Procedures, and Practices * Assigning, Staffing, and Scheduling * Staff and Patient Classifications * MANAGING RESOURCES* Nursing Resources: Pricing and Productivity * Institutional Finance and Nursing Management * Material Resources of Nursing Management * Business Planning * ACHIEVING QUALITY OUTCOMES* Managing Outcomes * Nursing Administration Control System * Quality Management * Performance Appraisal System * Staff Development * NURSE EXECUTIVE AS LEADER * Nurse Executives and Transitions * Nurse Executive As Builder of Teams * Strategic Planning and Marketing * Communications in Nursing Management * Role of the Nurse Executive * A Look at Relationships * Legal Considerations and Labor Law * Gauging Success of the Nurse Executive * Nurse Executive of the Future

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