Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Canada's health care environment -- Basic clinical health care economics -- 2. A new health care model: Evidence-based practice -- Nursing and health care informatics -- Population-based health care practice -- Personal and interprofessional communication -- Politics and consumer partnerships -- 3. Planning care: Nursing leadership and management -- Effective team building -- Budget concepts for client care -- Effective staffing -- Delegation of nursing care -- 4. Managing care: Strategic planning and organizing client care -- Change and conflict resolution -- Power -- 5. Evaluation: Managing performance and outcomes using an organizational quality improvement model -- Decision making -- 6. Other professional considerations: Legal aspects of client care -- Spirituality and the profession of nursing -- Ethics and the profession of nursing -- Collective bargaining -- Preparation for entry-level nursing practice: Career planning and development: creating your path to the future --