Nursing Leadership & Management, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive look at the knowledge and skills required to lead and manage at every level of nursing, emphasizing the crucial role nurses play in patient safety and the delivery of quality health care. Presented in three units, readers are introduced to a conceptual framework that highlights nursing leadership and management responsibilities for patient-centered care delivery to the patient, to the community, to the agency, and to the self.

This valuable new edition:

• Includes new and up-to-date information from national and state health care and nursing organizations, as well as new chapters on the historical context of nursing leadership and management and the organization of patient care in high reliability health care organizations
• Explores each of the six Quality and Safety in Nursing (QSEN) competencies: Patient-Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-based Practice (EBP), Quality Improvement (QI), Safety, and Informatics
• Provides review questions for all chapters to help students prepare for course exams and NCLEX state board exams
• Features contributions from experts in the field, with perspectives from bedside nurses, faculty, directors of nursing, nursing historians, physicians, lawyers, psychologists and more

Nursing Leadership & Management, Fourth Edition provides a strong foundation for evidence-based, high-quality health care for undergraduate nursing students, working nurses, managers, educators, and clinical specialists.

Patricia Kelly Vana is Professor Emerita, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana, where she served as Program Coordinator for an Undergraduate Nursing Program. She has taught Quality Improvement conferences for The Joint Commission and was the Director of Quality Improvement at the University of Chicago Medicine. Pat currently travels nationally teaching three-day NCLEX-RN reviews for Evolve Testing & Remediation/Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI), Houston, Texas.

Janice Tazbir is a nurse at the University of Chicago Medicine in critical care and has been for 32 years. She consults for Anderson Continuing Education, teaches HESI Live Reviews and was a Professor of Nursing at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana, for 22 years, where she served in many roles including Undergraduate Coordinator and the founding Director of The Center for Instructional Excellence.