Why nursing needs strategic planning : professional empowerment in the new millennium -- The healthcare habitat : the evolving professional home of nursing -- The business we find ourselves in -- Just what is strategic planning? -- Tools from the strategic planning workbench -- Strategic planning : why it's not just for the boardroom anymore -- The three key elements of the strategic planning process : a vision that guides nursing's future action -- Overview of strategic planning theories : strategic planning architecture -- Understanding change theory : strategic planning change agents -- Communicating the strategic plan -- Eight cautionary tales of strategic planning.
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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.