Completely updated in a new edition, Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing provides students with the necessary skills to make sound management decisions in a dynamic health care environment. Used worldwide, this award-winning book is now offered in a revised seventh edition to reflect the many changes in health care and nursing. Targeted to both practicing nurses and those in management, this book provides the tools for using the skills presented in each chapter, case studies with a managers checklist, critical thinking questions, key terms, an easy-to-read format, and a link to online instruction. In the ever-changing health care environment, nurses have never needed this information more.

Organized into four sections that address the essential information and key skills that nurses must learn to succeed in today’s volatile health care environment:

Part I, Understanding Nursing Management and Organizations
Part II, Learning Key Skills in Nursing Management
Part III, Managing Resources
Part IV, Taking Care of Yourself

Features:

• Gives students an understanding of the basic principles of leadership and management, and then outlines the skills that are needed to make effective decisions
• Case Studies with Manager’s Checklist - demonstrate application of content
  
• Questions to Challenge You - help students relate concepts to their experience
• What You Know Now lists at end of each chapter
• A list of “tools,” or key behaviors, for using the skills presented in the chapter
• MediaLink boxes in each chapter introduce readers to resources and activities on the Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/sullivan-decker

New to this Edition:

• New four-color design!
• NEW chapter on preventing workplace violence has been added.
  
• NEW section on taking care of yourself, including chapters on Managing Stress and Advancing Your Career.
• Includes additional content on business plans, consumer relations, partnerships, role transition, professional associations and strategic planning.
• Examples that illustrate theoretical explanations have been added throughout the text, showing applications of the theoretical material.
• All references have been updated.

Eleanor J. Sullivan PhD, RN, FAAN
is the former dean of the University of Kansas School of Nursing, past president of Sigma Theta Tau International, and previous editor of the Journal of Professional Nursing. She has served on the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, testified before the U.S. Senate, served on a National Institutes of Health council, presented papers to international audiences, been quoted in Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rolling Stone Magazine, and named to "Who's Who in Health Care" by Kansas City Business Journal. She earned nursing degrees from St. Louis Community College, St. Louis University, and Southern Illinois University and holds a PhD from St. Louis University.

Dr. Sullivan is known for her publications in nursing, including this award-winning textbook, Effective Leadership & Management in Nursing, and Becoming Influential: A Guide for Nurses from Prentice Hall. Other publications include Creating Nursing's Future: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges and Nursing Care for Clients with Substance Abuse.

Today Dr. Sullivan is a professional speaker and mystery author. Her mystery series (Twice Dead, Deadly Diversion, Assumed Dead) features nurse sleuth Monika Everhardt. By showing nursing realistically, she hopes that readers will understand the complexity of nursing care and the skills and knowledge involved in being a nurse.