This book details and explains the nurse manager's tasks in a health service organisation, giving the practitioner and student a solid, in-depth grounding in essential managerial skills. The text deals with: quality assurance and improvement; strategic health and human resources planning; the design and commissioning of health service facilities; group dynamics; labour relations; job evaluation; leadership; staff development; financial management. Appropriate practical examples supplement theory and ensure the relevance of this five-part, multi-authored book which deals with all the basic managerial skills the modern nurse needs to provide a nursing service.
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Höhe: 180 mm
Breite: 260 mm
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978-0-7021-4211-6 (9780702142116)
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Stages of human resource planning in health care; Key issues in planning and administration of human resources; Planning for, and management of, commissioning; Planning and commissioning of health care facilities; General management approaches; Financial management; Organisational structure, culture and climate; Job evaluation; Group dynamics; Communication; Management of time; Methods of personnel assignment for patient care; Recruitment and selection; Assignment of staff; Absenteeism; Turnover; Staff development; Management and organisational development; Leadership; Work motivation; Management of change; Decision-making and problem solving; Management of conflict; Performance appraisal and productivity; Risk management; Quality improvement in a health care service; The implementation of a quality improvement programme in a nursing service; Information systems in nursing management; Industrial relations and quality of work life; Appendices; Index.
