Bøker av Brian Dolan

When you become a ward or unit manager, or allied health professionals team leader, your responsibilities change and you need a very different set of skills compared to your previous roles. You are now required to manage a team of staff with a set budget and are responsible for maintaining an environment in which people can work together efficiently and effectively. This new fourth edition of the Survival Guide to Leadership and Management on the Ward welcomes Krishna Gohil to the author team and thereby extends its guidance on these crucial skills to both nurses and allied health professionals. This book will help you toIdentify your responsibilities and best approaches as a manager to provide patients with a high standard of care through your staffBecome an even better leader through highly practical examples, suggestions and tipsManage your staff, time and budgetCreate a positive work environmentFamiliarize yourself with the new NMC and HCPC standardsFocuses on both nursing and allied health professionals who are in the role of ward managers, unit managers or team leaders, or aspire to be soThis new fourth edition significantly builds on how to understand your role, work with different generations in the workplace and manage difficult situationsIncludes greater emphasis on self-care and self-compassion for leaders and managersCovers leading teams in the context of enduring financial and staffing constraints

As a branch of the U.S. armed services, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) must understand, manage, and report its readiness. The readiness-related systems of the U.S. Department of Defense, like many systems that support and govern the USSF, were not designed to meet the unique demands of the military space community and characteristics of operations in and through outer space. The newly independent USSF has an opportunity to create systems that work better meet their needs. The authors of this report have created a readiness framework for the USSF and a guide on how to implement it. Starting with a "blank slate" mandate and a review of the readiness practice of the other services, the authors studied the current readiness system for the USSF and considered the unique needs of the military space community. They found that the current readiness reporting system does not address the range of USSF needs and has failed to objectively report the readiness of the space forces. They recommend a readiness framework that measures the USSF's ability to keep pace with adversary threats. It proposes three distinct "views" of readiness: (1) given today's resources, (2) against the near-peer threat, and (3) progress in transforming to meet the near-peer threat.

In this broad review of commercial space capabilities that could support the U.S. Space Force's future space architecture and innovation ecosystem, the authors characterize capabilities and trends through mid-2020 in seven commercial space sectors.

'An utterly absorbing account, brilliantly researched and written, of women's lives and travels in the 18th-century.' Katie Hickman

Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry.

Suitable for emergency nurses, covering the range of emergency care issues, including trauma management and trauma care, the lifespan, psychological issues, physiology for practice, practice and professional issues, this book is about more than what a nurse should do; it is about why it should be done, leading to sustainable and safer practice.

An intriguing examination of the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood, potter to the Queen, and an Enlightenment pioneer.