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In today's complex healthcare settings, several challenges such as nursing shortages, decreased workforce, increased patient acuities, and demands, increased regulations that add to nurses' workload, increased job dissatisfaction, and less time spent at the bedside. These challenges are increasing nurses' responsibilities and accountabilities, but do not add power or authority to address needed changes to affect nursing practice. Healthcare executives and leaders realize that quality care is best delivered by staff nurses who are committed to the organization and empowered to practice their...

This is a very readable textbook that deals with the fundamentals of healthcare ethics and legal issues for nurses. Starting with an introduction to the issues underpinning ethical knowledge, such as values and beliefs, it then leads into ethical concepts such as rights, dignity, and accountability and concludes with specific areas of practice, such as dignified death and research. As such it would be useful reading to support an undergraduate nursing program introducing students to ethical theory. The use of 'case studies is particularly useful in ensuring that theory can be contextualized...

Leading a group of people is a skill that takes time and effort and needs dedication. Leadership is about drawing out where leaders need to go and what he/she wants to achieve as a team. There are different styles of leadership, these styles have been studied through leadership theories, some are more successful than others in achieving organizational goals and maintain effective relationships with different departments as well as with the nurses.Recently a new approach of leadership emerged from Toyota Production System (TPS) that concentrates on eliminating the non-value-add from the...