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Leadership roles and management functions in nursing : theory and application / by Marquis, Bessie L, Huston, Carol Jorgensen

Table of Contents: “…Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning : requisites for successful leadership and management -- Classical views of leadership and management -- Twenty-first century thinking about leadership and management -- Ethical issues -- Legal and legislative issues -- Patient, subordinate, and professional advocacy -- Strategic and operational planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Career development : from new graduate to retirement -- Organizational structure -- Organizational, political, and personal power -- Organizing patient care -- Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination -- Socializing and educating staff for team building in a learning organization -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication -- Delegation -- Effective conflict resolution and negotiation -- Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired.…”

The complete hiring and firing handbook every manager's guide to working with employees legally / by Fleischer, Charles H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- To hire or not to hire -- Eligibility for employment -- Discrimination -- Specific types of discrimination -- Procedures and remedies for discrimination -- Job description -- Recruiting -- Resumes and resumes fraud -- Applications -- Interviews -- Controls of employment -- Noncomplete and other agreements -- Requirements applicable to new employees -- Firing -- The decision-making process -- Voluntary and involuntary termination -- Layoffs -- Protected status -- Retaliation -- Strikes and concerted activities -- Wrongful discharge -- The firing process -- Final pay and continued benefits -- Severance packages and releases -- References -- Enforcing restrictive covenants -- unemployment insurance -- Conclusion.…”
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Integrating literacy and technology effective practice for grades K-6 / by Watts-Taffe, Susan M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The learning environment for effective literacy-technology integration -- Learning about effective technology integration : a guide for teachers -- Planning for literacy-technology integration -- Teaching effectively with technology -- Using assessment to inform decision making in the technology-enriched learning environment -- The teacher as change agent in the literacy-technology learning environment -- The impact of technology on our journey as teachers : looking back, looking forward -- A glossary of terms : new words associated with new technologies -- Appendices : tools for thinking about technology integration.…”
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Labor and delivery care a practical guide / by Cohen, Wayne R.

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Nursing ethics in everyday practice

Table of Contents: “…What does the future hold for nursing care? -- Ethical decision making models -- Finding a voice in ethics : everyday ethical behavior in nursing -- Nursing ethics in everyday practice : using communication skills effectively -- Ethics consultation -- Genetics -- Research advocacy in clinical nursing -- Ethical issues in critical care -- Ethics in long term care -- Ethical challenges in transitioning to end-of-life care : exploring the meaning of a "good death" -- Ethical issues in neonatal nursing -- Pediatric ethics : what makes children different? …”
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Prefrontal cortex roles, interventions and traumas /

Table of Contents: “…Prefrontal morphology : neurobiology and clinical manifestation of schizophrenia -- Prefrontal cholinergic receptors : their role in the pathology of schizophrenia -- Participation of the prefrontal cortex in the processing of sexual and maternal incentives -- From conflict to problem solution : the role of medical prefrontal cortex in learning of memory-guided and context-adequate behavioral strategies for problem-solving in gerbils -- The orbitofrontal cortex and emotional decision-making : the neglected role of anxiety -- PEEF : premotor ear-eye field : a new vista of area 8B -- Prefrontal cortex : its roles in cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease revealed by PET -- Prefrontal cortex : Brodmann and Cajal revisited.…”
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The United States and Iraq since 1990 a brief history with documents /

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Drugs - Real World Outcomes

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Economic analysis of oil and gas engineering operations / by Abdel-Aal, Hussein K.

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Exergetic Aspects of Renewable Energy Systems : Insights to Transportation and Energy Sector for Intelligent Communities. by Nanaki, Evanthia A.

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Cosmopolitan Business Ethics : Towards a Global Ethos of Management / by Dahl Rendtorff, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter 11 Sustainability, social responsibility, and corporate governance -- chapter 12 Business ethics as stakeholder management -- chapter 13 Shareholders, management, and employees -- chapter 14 Consumers, public relations, and ethical accounting reports -- chapter 15 Cosmopolitanism, religion, and legitimacy -- chapter 16 Cosmopolitan business ethics as global corporate citizenship -- chapter 17 Decision-making model for cosmopolitan business ethics -- chapter 18 Strategy for cosmopolitan business ethics.…”
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The Economics of Human Rights / by Wheaton, Elizabeth M.

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Aviation psychology and human factors / by Martinussen, Monica, Hunter, David R. (David Robert), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Research Methods and Statistics -- chapter 3 Aviation Physiology -- chapter 4 Abilities and Personality Traits -- chapter 5 Personnel Selection -- chapter 6 Training -- chapter 7 Human Factors and the Design of Aviation Systems -- chapter 8 Stress and Human Reactions -- chapter 9 Culture, Organizations, and Leadership -- chapter 10 Aeronautical Decision-Making -- chapter 11 Aviation Safety -- chapter 12 Concluding Remarks.…”
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Gender, development, and climate change /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru / Rosa Rivero Reyes -- The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation / Emily Boyd -- Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach / Marlene Roy and Henry David Venema -- Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building / Tieho Makhabane -- Transforming power relationships: building capacity for ecological security / Mary Jo Larson -- Resources / compiled by Ruth Evans.…”

Achieving education for all : good practice in crisis and post-conflict reconstruction : a handbook for education policy makers and practitioners in Commonwealth countries / by Williams, Peter, 1935 Apr. 7-

Management : a practical introduction / by Kinicki, Angelo

Table of Contents: “…-- Individual & group decision making : how managers make things happen? -- Organizing -- Organizational culture, structure, & design : building blocks of the -- Organization? …”

Betraying the NHS health abandoned / by Mandelstam, Michael, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Comprehensive, universal, and free -- Sowing financial seeds: the great investment -- Declaring the health harvest and concealing ruined crops -- Uprooting the traditional health fields -- Cultivation of local health services -- Choosing the method of cultivation: patient choice -- Alienating and spreading fear in the community -- Combing the landscape for a decision-maker -- Rushing into decisions and reaping the consequences -- Discarding the chaff: the shedding of NHS responsibilities -- The great hospital and health service clearout -- From hospital to homestead: the great go-between of intermediate care -- Thresholds and fending: erecting the social care barriers -- The uprooting of real care -- Suffolk health services: gathering storm over the land -- Rural conflagrations and early hostilities -- Setting the wheels in motion: the timetable of war -- The campaign in full flux -- Other fights in a changing landscape -- Decision-making day.…”
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The first-time manager's guide to team building by Topchik, Gary S.

Table of Contents: “…The best team experience -- Defining a team -- The four team models -- A summary of the four models -- Mismanaging your teams -- Creating a team-based work environment -- A new set of skills -- Roadblocks on your way -- Getting to the new road -- The 10 steps of team building -- Leading your meetings -- Team-spirit key #1 : clear roles and responsibilities -- Team-spirit key #2 : open and honest communication -- Team-spirit key #3 : a supportive and knowledgeable manager/leader -- Team-spirit key #4 : decision-making authority -- Team-spirit key #5 : rewards and recognition -- Make them accountable! …”
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Listening to the whispers re-thinking ethics in healthcare /

Table of Contents: “…Craddock Lee -- Teleology, the modern moral dichotomy, and postmodern bioethics in the 21st century / John Paul Slosar -- Reflections of moral dilemmas and patterns of ethical decision making in five clinical physical therapists / Bruce H. …”
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