Download e-book for iPad: A Path to Nursing Excellence: The Columbia Experience by Mary O'Neil, DrPH Mundinger

"I discovered the dean's perception and imaginative and prescient for brand spanking new and evolving adjustments in nursing very motivational. this may be an exceptional learn for somebody attracted to constructing nursing programs." ranking: ninety seven, five Stars.--Doody's clinical Reviews

This booklet, written by way of the Dean Emeritus of Columbia university of Nursing, follows the evolution of complex perform Nursing as a winning and well-respected version of self sustaining nursing perform. It describes a dramatic interval of 25 years within which the writer rescued a failing institution of nursing at Columbia college and led it via a interval of fight that, via robust and punctiliously built making plans, led complicated perform Nursing to a brand new point of authority and schooling. It depicts Columbia's management in setting up CAPNA, a financially winning self sustaining nursing perform, and makes use of the case examine of Columbia institution of Nursing to demonstrate how nursing management used leverage and political acumen to collect disparate and strange companions to aid its project to restructure the APN model.

Divided into six sections, the ebook describes how the techniques transpired in the course of five-year sessions and offers, within the ultimate part, an motion plan in the event you wish to strengthen an analogous point of perform in a faculty or separately. Chapters deal with why the seminal success happened, precisely what came about, the cultural and perform setting during which swap happened, innovations used and resistance triumph over, and options that emerged a result of ultimate fulfillment. The textual content, with its specialist and monetary version, may be of worth to nurse educators who desire to invigorate their courses, DNP graduates who search to improve their practices, scientific educators, enterprise schooling pros, and healthiness reformers.

Key Features:

• Portrays a passionate 25-year fight in the direction of the fulfillment of complicated perform nursing authority and autonomy
• Shares a profitable version of self reliant nursing practice
• Offers instructions on easy methods to educate school for his or her position in offering helpful medical schooling in NP and DNP programs
• Provides a blueprint for faculties of nursing trying to enhance powerful DNP courses and start up an autonomous school nursing practice
• Written through the Dean Emeritus of Columbia university of Nursing