Textbook of Nursing Management and Services

This book delivers all that nurses will need to meet the increasing demand for medical and nursing management serivices, in the face of limited resources, has brought out the need for careful planning and management of health services. Planning and management are considered essentials if higher standardes of health and evidence-based nursing health care are to be achieved.

The ultimate aim of nursing services administration is to provide quality health care to people in the hospital community and home. A nurse will have to team-up with top, middle and lower level management and also have to manage subordinates for which the art of dealing with people and effective relationship is very important. Nurses role is to coordinate and manage the care delivered by other health care providers, community groups, non governmental organizations, family members and members from other sectors to achieve individual and community action for health.