PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF NURSING MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION FOR BSC AND MSC NURSING

This book, Principles and Practice of Nursing Management and Administration, gives a comprehensive approach to the foundation of nursing management and can be treated as the framework of nursing service management. It explains the concept of nursing, its role in the health care system, and issues related to nursing management and administration. This book comprised of 11 sections that mainly focus on nursing as a profession: framework for management, introduction to nursing management and health care delivery system, planning process, fundamentals of organization, planning and organizing hospital nursing and ancillary services, human resource management and staffing, directing and leading, organizational behavior and human relations, material management, controlling, fiscal management, and nursing informatics. The book is made user-friendly by using different levels of headings, subheadings, and italicized words to help the users to have in-depth study of subject and quickly revising by adding ?Chapter Highlights? and scope for self-assessment by adding Review Questions of essay type, Short answered, and MCQs at the end of each chapter, that makes the book truly user-friendly. In short, the revised edition is a comprehensive text of Principles and Practice of Nursing Administration and Management meant primarily for students undergoing graduate and postgraduate nursing courses, but also to practice nurses working in hospitals, community, and teaching nursing institutes at all levels.