Quality of care that is expected from a health care facility is made explicit by written standards that direct the way the service is to be provided and the results should be achieved from that service. Nursing care Standards must be available to all nursing personnel to serve as guide for professional work. Standard is a descriptive professional statement of desired or agreed level of performance/care against which the level of performance/care can be judged. It must be observable, achievable and measurable. The patient's ability to cope with chemotherapy will be influenced by knowledge of...

This text book is designed to highlight the concepts of theories, principles of leadership and management in nursing practice and education. It introduces the steps of management process and leadership styles which would enable the nurse students and personnel to develop an insight to provide quality nursing care and education in any health care and educational center in the country to suit the societal needs. It also provides comprehensiveness in understanding the role of a nurse as a manager.This book also helps undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as novice teacher to acquire...

Management is a daily routine of every organization. The performance of daily activities requires that many elements (people, equipment, material, drugs, time... etc) are brought to carry out the work with the aim of setting in place systems that assure good-quality care for patients and their career and families. This book represents a blending of the traditional management and organizational behavior topics in nursing practice and education, highlight the essence of the management process, presented in such a fashion that is simultaneously illuminate organizational behavior by weaving...

This text book is designed to highlight the principles of administration in nursing service and education. It introduces the steps of management process which would enable the nurse students and practitioner to develop an insight to provide quality nursing care and education in any health care and educational center in the country to suit the societal needs. It also provides comprehensiveness in understanding the role of a nurse as a manager. This book can apply to faculties and schools of nursing, and to the administration of nursing service in hospitals or public health agencies. This book...

This book describes trends and issues that influence the way students (and nurses) learn to become competent practitioners, and meet the needs of patients.Competent nurses integrate these changes into their way of being, to become "thinking" nurses as well as "doing" nurses. Thinking nurses learn to integrate essential knowledge, attitudes, and skills into care that involves best practices and evidence- based practices that promote patient safety and quality care Some of these trends and related issues include the following: the extreme and rapid changes in technology in patient care and...