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not discuss the safety education program quality evaluation method or criteria. Implementa- tion of the safety education pro- gram was inconsistent among the schools participating in the study.

Perioperative nursing impiica- tions. This is the first study to doc- ument a nurse’s principal investi- gator role in developing, imple- menting, and evaluating a school-based and community- based safety education program. Nurses have a significant role in health education, health promo- tion, and injury prevention. Nurses who work in trauma emergency departments, trauma ORs, preop- erative care, intraoperative care, or postoperative care have important roles in preventing injuries through health education.

tive nurses in community-based injury prevention programs is an example of our evolving role in the redesigned health care sys- tem. We can use our experience in caring for patients with blunt trauma injuries to provide valu- able insights in injury prevention education.

This traffic safety outcome study demonstrates new roles for nurses in public health education. Nurses can serve as role models for our patients, family members,

The involvement of periopera-

friends, and communities by using seat belts properly. Nurses can support public initiatives to help prevent MVC injuries. With our experience in regionalized trauma care, we have an important role in developing international nursing initiatives for safety education and injury prevention interventions.

KATHRYN G. SAPNAS RN, MSN, CCRN, CNOR

NURSINQ RESEARCH COMMITTEE

BOOK REVIEW

THE LEADERSHIP REVOLUTION IN HEALTH CARE: ALTERING SYS- TEMS, CHANGING BEHAVIORS By Tim Porter-O’Grady, Cathleen Krueger Wilson

$3 hardcover

his book clearly defines the many changes in the health T care environment, including

those involving health care ser- vices, health care delivery sys- tems, job security, and the role of the manager. The book focuses on the context of leadership and emphasizes new insights and tech- niques for transforming the behav- ior of managers and organizations.

According to the book, the manager’s role eventually will evolve into that of a partnership with staff members. Managers no

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longer will have a vertical set of relationships with which to man- age the delivery of health care ser- vices because new organizational structures are robbing managers of their vertical fast tracks and replacing them with horizontal tracks.

cooperate in partnerships with their staff members, and if this cooperation is not forthcoming, they will be dismissed. Organiza- tions are moving toward this change because they now are more dependent on the knowledge of staff members than on any other factor in the workplace. The book also suggests that relation- ships between managers and staff members should be more like rela- tionships between adults rather than relationships between parents and children.

This book is a must for nurse managers, staff members, and committee members of any nurs- ing organization.

This book is available from Aspen Publishers, Inc, 7201 McKinney Cir, Frederick, MD

Managers will be expected to

21701-9782; (800) 234-1660. PEARL M. TORRESYAP

RN, CNOR ASSISTANI HEAD NURSE/

ORTHOPEDIC SURQERY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER

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