Description
Book SynopsisAre you looking into how to advance your professional development through certification? Need a reliable and credible reference resource? No matter where you are in the process, make sure you have the most valuable review and resource tool at your disposal.
Nursing Knowledge Center’s
Nurse Executive Review and Resource Manual is a must-have tool for nurses planning to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC’s) Nurse Executive certification exam.
Based on the official ANCC certification exam test content outline, this review and resource manual will help you:
- Study and analyze comprehensive material and concepts written by nursing experts.
- Develop a recommended seven-step plan to equip you for the exam and map out what to do on the day of the exam.
- Prepare for and familiarize yourself with nurse executive standards of practice.
- And much more ...
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Make the Nurse Executive Review and Resource Manual a key resource in your certification preparation.
Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1. Taking the Certification Examination
- General Suggestions for Preparing for the Exam 1
- CHAPTER 2. Leadership and Management
- Leadership Theories
- The Importance of Transparency
- Organization and Structure
- Planning Continuum
- Healthcare Environment
- Institutional Environment
- External Environment
- Physical Environment
- References
- CHAPTER 3. Innovation, Technology, And Legal Issues
- In Nursing
- Innovation and Healthcare Technology
- Client Safety
- Legal Issues in Professional Practice and Institutional
- Liabilities
- References
- CHAPTER 4. Healthcare Environment
- Organizational Culture and Environment
- Teambuilding
- Group Dynamics
- Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Negotiation
- Sources of Power and Empowerment
- Adapting to Change
- Environmental Factors
- References
- CHAPTER 5. Program Evaluation And Research
- Program Evaluation
- Research
- Purpose of Study
- Background Information
- Question Guiding Inquiry (PICOT)
- Summary of Study
- Conclusions and Outcome
- Summary
- References
- CHAPTER 6. Legal And Regulatory Issues; Human Capital;
- Healthcare Policy And Politics; Ethics
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Human Capital
- Management–Labor Relationships: Collective
- Bargaining
- Healthcare Policy and Politics
- Ethics
- References
- CHAPTER 7. The Business Of Health Care
- Budget
- Reimbursement
- Cost Containment
- Marketing
- References
- APPENDIX A. Review Questions
- APPENDIX B. Answers to Review Questions
- INDEX
