Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar

Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar
5th Ed.
2023 © Jones and Bartlett Publishers
J. Michael Leger, PhD, MBA, RN
ISBN-13: 978-1-284-23093-2
eISBN-13: 978-1-284-56478-5
Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing

Description

Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar, Fifth Edition is a unique text that addresses the financial management issues faced by nurse leaders in a variety of settings, including hospitals, ambulatory/outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, and home care. With an evidence-based and practical approach, it covers a wide range of financial information, including healthcare finance, economics, budgeting, reimbursements, accounting, and financial strategies.

The Fifth Edition features additional ambulatory examples, a new exercise on emergency planning, and updated and expanded case studies. Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar brings financial concepts to life for students with practical applications and straightforward budgeting practice activities.

Features and Benefits

  • • Focuses on a value-based environment and outlines what is needed to achieve this.
  • • Includes chapters focused specifically on accounting and assessing financial performance.
  • • Offers an interconnected view of the nursing and financial sides of health care and suggests methods nurses can use to successfully integrate these viewpoints.
  • • Contains both typical nursing administration terminology and financial accounting terminology.
  • • Provides suggestions and examples that nurses can use to better communicate with financial personnel.

Doody's Reviews

Doody's Core Titles (DCT)
Specialty Score: 2.8 Nursing - Administration/Management
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Quotes, Reviews or Testimonials

"This excellent book is both thorough and current, making it a valuable resource for its intended audience. For a new nurse manager, it is well worth the cost. It is also a great resource for management or for educators teaching nursing management."

-- Cynthia Cummings, RN, MSN, EdD (University of North Florida Brooks College of Health) - Doodys Review - previous edition

Audience

Nurse managers and administrators are the intended audience.

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