Content: Leadership and principles -- Management principles -- Professional practice and career development -- Managing time and stress -- Health policy, health, and nursing -- Critical thinking skills -- Decision-making skills -- The healthcare system -- Organizational climate and culture -- Mission statements, policies, and procedures -- Organizational structure -- Decentralization and shared governance -- Data management and informatics -- Strategic management -- Marketing -- Models of care delivery -- Case management -- Disease management -- Patient and family cultural values -- Communication, persuasuasion, and negotiation -- All-hazards disaster preparedness -- Evidence-based practice: Strategies for nursing leaders -- Motivation -- Power and conflict -- Delegation -- Team building and working with effective groups -- Confronting the nursing shortage -- Cultural and generational workforce diversity -- Staff recruitment and retention -- Performance appraisal -- Prevention of workplace violence -- Collective bargaining -- Staffing and scheduling -- Legal and ethical issues -- Financial management -- Budgeting -- Productivity and costing out nursing -- Change and innovation -- Quality improvement and health care safety -- Measuring and managing outcomes.