We are pleased to bring our readers this eighth edition of Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management. This new edition has been updated to reflect the dynamic health-care environment, new safety and quality initiatives, diversity, lessons learned during the pandemic, changes in the nursing workforce and transformations in the nursing practice environment. This edition focuses on essential leadership and management skills and the knowledge needed by the staff nurse as a key member of the interprofessional health-care team and manager of patient care. Issues related to setting priorities, delegation, quality improvement, legal parameters of nursing practice, and ethical issues were also updated for this edition"--