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Take care of your patients by taking care of yourself with these 100 self-care activities specifically designed to help nurses reduce stress, feel their best-and ready to make a difference! There's no doubt about it: today's healthcare workers have a lot on their plates. Between balancing the needs of your patients and giving your all to support your coworkers, getting burnt out and overwhelmed is a real risk. So how do you make sure you take time for yourself to recharge? With Self-Care for...

"Serves as an excellent study guide for students or as a source of course examination questions for the instructor...The author has skillfully taken the format of the National Association of the Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators and utilized them as a basis for this text." - "Journal of Health Administration Education". This newly revised and updated study guide is based on the same format as the actual exam and provides an easy-to-use, effective way to review essential concepts...

No other resource can affect patient care as much as nurse staffing. With this indispensable guide, nurse managers will increase the precision around nurse staffing by assessing new designs and implementing new approaches.

Even as you read this, the field of long-term care is undergoing a rapid redefinition of both its institutional and community-based providers. Public policy makers are working to add much-needed alternative modes of delivery to traditional long-term institutional care. New rules, new levels, and new kinds of care are constantly being created. As a result, tomorrow's long-term care administrators will have to be flexible enough to adapt to different management settings, and to oversee an ever-exp...

Shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year (International Books category) 2022 Every year, companies spend billions of dollars in board time and headhunter fees on CEO searches. In fact, the selection of the next CEO is the single most important task of the board of directors. Yet, despite the huge amount of time, money, and attention given to the task, many CEO changes fail, with disastrous consequences for all concerned.With so much at stake, it is natural to ask what companies and their b...

To succeed as leaders of a diverse, multigenerational workforce, nurse managers and executives need to have both traditional management skills and a contemporary, creative mindset. Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Ninth Edition, is a comprehensive overview of key management and administrative concepts that are critical to leading healthcare organizations and ensuring patient safety and quality care. The text prepares nursing students and professional administrators to lead a w...

Classroom tested and the result of over 30 years of teaching and research, this textbook is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and graduate data analysis courses in environmental sciences and engineering. It is also a useful reference on modern digital data analysis for the extensive and growing community of Earth scientists and engineers. Basic Environmental Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers introduces practical concepts of modern digital data analysis and graphics, including numer...

Distinguished by its accomplished Editor and Contributor team, this innovative leadership and management text for graduate nursing students is unique in its focus on relationships, communications, and emotional intelligence at all stages of the nurse’s career. Filled with practical content demonstrating how leadership skills are a key component of management, the text examines specific nursing roles—nurse managers, leaders, and executives—while incorporating the most recent AACN, AONL, and ANA c...