Strategic Planning for Nurses: Change Management in Health Care

This text builds insight and breaks boundaries that have historically hampered nursing's professional progression and power as a stakeholder in an ever-changing global business-based healthcare arena. The Essential Guide to Strategic Planning for Nurses offers specific skill and knowledge-based instruction on business concepts, trends and issues that face the demographically and culturally diverse nursing workforce of the 21st century. Instructor's Resources Coming Soon!

ChapterChapter 1 Why Nursing Needs Strategic Planning: Professional Empowerment in the New Millennium
ChapterChapter 2 The Healthcare Habitat: The Evolving Professional Home of Nursing
ChapterChapter 3 The Business We Find Ourselves In
ChapterChapter 4 Just What Is Strategic Planning?
ChapterChapter 5 Tools from the Strategic Planning Workbench
ChapterChapter 6 Strategic Planning - Why It's Not Just for the Board Room Anymore
ChapterChapter 7 The Three Key Elements of the Strategic Planning Process: A Vision that Guides Nursing's Future Action
ChapterChapter 8 Overview of Strategic Planning Theories - Strategic Planning Architecture
ChapterChapter 9 Understanding Change Theory - Strategic Planning Change Agents
ChapterChapter 10 Communicating the Strategic Plan
ChapterChapter 11 Eight cautionary tales of strategic planning