A new approach to leadership and management -- Integrating leadership roles and management function -- Tools for leadership and management problem solving -- Roles and functions in planning -- The planning hierarchy and strategic planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Roles and functions in organizing -- Organizational structure -- Authority and power in organizations -- Organizing patient care -- Roles and functions in staffing -- Preliminary staffing functions: from recruitment through orientation -- Meeting staff socialization and educational needs for team building -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Roles and functions in directing -- Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational,interpersonal,and group communication -- Delegation -- Managing conflict -- Potential constraints affecting directing:unions and employment laws -- Roles and functions in controlling -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Creating a growth-producing work environment through discipline -- Employees with special needs -- Professional and social issues in leadership and management -- Ethical issues -- Legal and legislative issues -- Career developmentaissues

1. Nursing
2. supervisory
3. Nurse administrators
4. Leadership