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Presents step-by-step strategies for applying project management skills in varied settings and identifying concepts critical to project success
The third edition of this acclaimed resource continues to deliver highly practical skills, strategies, and wisdom to graduate-level nursing students as they prepare to confront real-life management challenges. The new edition reflects the changing roles and responsibilities of today's APRN. The revision features expanded case scenarios, supported by concrete examples and critical thinking questions.
The text helps APRNs to understand and apply evidence-based project management architecture to nursing goals and objectives that must be accomplished in an organized way. It outlines the phases of evidence-based project management--design and planning, implementation, monitoring and controlling, and final evaluation--and describes evidence-based tools used in the process. Examples and explanations of each step in the project management process clarify and reinforce learning. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.
New to the Third Edition:
- Updates content based on current practices and the mandates of AONL and ANA
- Reflects the changing roles and responsibilities of today's APRN
- Expands case scenarios supported by real-world examples
- Includes critical thinking questions in each chapter
- Aligns with revised AACN Essentials, particularly relating to leadership
- Encompasses new knowledge from the ongoing teaching and practice of the author along with her recent project management practices
Key Features:
- Delivers key skills for APRNs who need to understand and apply project management structures to nursing goals and objectives
- Provides a guiding framework APRNs can use in both clinical practice and leadership
- Helps in the preparation of practicum assignments for graduation and residencies
- Presents the foundations of project management with specific examples from a variety of roles, particularly leadership
- Includes in-depth case studies, critical thinking and reflection questions, and additional activities to reinforce learning
- Offers Instructor's Manual and PowerPoints
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION AND ROLES OF THE ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE
Chapter 1: Basic Project Management for Advanced Practice Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Chapter 2: Advanced Practice Nurse Role Descriptions and Application of Project Management Concepts
SECTION II: PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Chapter 3: Design/Initiation: Project Management--Phase 1
Chapter 4: Planning: Project Management--Phase 2
Chapter 5: Implementation/Execution--Phase 3
Chapter 6: Monitoring and Controlling: Project Management--Phase 4
Chapter 7: Closing the Project--Phase 5
SECTION III: APPLICATION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND TOOLS
Chapter 8: Case Studies: Applying Project Management Concepts and Tools
Index