Overview and how to use the modules / Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx -- Team building / Kathleen G. Burke -- Directing and delegation in long-term care / Rita K. Adeniran and Linda A. Carrick -- Power and negotiation / Kathleen G. Burke -- Change theory and process / Linda A. Carrick -- Developing cultural competence in long-term care nursing / Rita K. Adeniran and Rosalyn J. Watts -- Leading through education in long-term care nursing / Kathleen L. Egan
Summary
While the scope of long-term care settings has expanded from nursing homes and home care agencies to assisted living facilities and community-based health services, the training for nurses, managers and administrators, medical directors, and other professionals who work in these facilities is often fragmented. This book was developed to fill a widely-recognized gap in the management and leadership skills of RNs needed to improve the quality of long-term care. The book is based around learning modules in leadership and management competencies that were site-tested in three types of long-term ca
