This comprehensive text provides management concepts and theories, giving professional administrators and students theoretical and practical knowledge. Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators provides a foundation for nurse managers and nurse executives as well as students with major management and administrative content including planning, organizing, leadership, directing, and evaluating. The Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated with additional content on complex adaptive symptoms, quality improvement and patient safety, and evidence-based practice. It also has new chapters on academic and clinical partnership, trends shaping nursing leadership, implications for education and practice, creating a culture of magnetism, information management and technology, risk management and legal issues, and building a portfolio for academic and clinical partnerships.