Managing and Coordinating Nursing Care or The Box

Managing and Coordinating Nursing Care

Author: Janice Rider Ellis

Now in its Fifth Edition, this text is designed to teach nursing students to apply effective decision-making, leadership, delegation, prioritization, and patient management skills to real-world practice situations. With its emphasis on critical thinking and collaborative decision making, this book has been highly successful in building students' problem-solving and management abilities. The book is in full color and has humorous illustrations that teach key concepts in a memorable way. Icons highlight legal, ethical, and cultural considerations. Numerous examples and critical thinking exercises illustrate concepts and encourage students to apply what they have learned.

Table of Contents:

1	Developing leadership behavior and management skills	3
2	Understanding and working in organizations	36
3	Managing resources responsibly	68
4	Supporting quality care	103
5	The nurse as communicator, teacher, motivator, and team builder	129
6	The nurse as decision maker and delegator	165
7	The nurse as supervisor and evaluator	203
8	The nurse as change agent and ad vocate	239
9	The nurse as conflict manager, negotiator, and mediator	273
10	Advancing your career	307
11	Attaining and maintaining competence	333
12	The challenging workplace	349
13	Nursing informatics and evidence-based practice	376
14	Anticipating the future	417

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Author: Marc Levinson

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible.

But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.

Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping socheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.

Library Journal

Economist Levinson (The Economist Guide to Financial Markets) shows in this history of the shipping container how its invention helped form our modern global economy by bringing down the cost of transporting goods. He explains how the advent of the shipping container in the mid-1950s-the book is published on the 50th anniversary of the first container voyage-was a radical break from the labor-intensive loading and transport of loose cargo by trucks, railroads, and break-bulk ships. Levinson demonstrates how, despite strong opposition from longshoremen, transportation companies, and government regulators, the economic advantages of containerization won out in the end and how, as a result, the shipping industry, port cities, and whole national economies have been transformed. Levinson presents a clear, comprehensive history of the now-ubiquitous shipping container while highlighting its crucial economic role in global interconnectiv ity. Highly recommended for transportation and economics collections in academic and larger public libraries.-Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ., Erie, PA. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Paperback Edition     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
The World the Box Made     1
Gridlock on the Docks     16
The Trucker     36
The System     54
The Battle for New York's Port     76
Union Disunion     101
Setting the Standard     127
Takeoff     150
Vietnam     171
Ports in a Storm     189
Boom and Bust     212
The Bigness Complex     231
The Shippers' Revenge     245
Just in Time     264
Abbreviations     279
Notes     281
Bibliography&n bsp;    343
Index     365