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; and, 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.

Editor:

S.W. Booyens

Publisher:

Juta Academic

ISBN:

9780702142116

Publication date:

March 1998

Length:

248mm

Width:

171mm

Thickness:

38mm

Weight:

1134g

Edition:

2nd ed

Pages:

720

Illustrations:

index

Readership:

Professional & scholarly

Prescribed at:

UNISA 2012

Subject / Course:

HMA3702

Subject / Course:

HMA2603

Subject / Course:

HMA2603

• Control
• performance appraisal and productivity
• risk management
• quality improvement in health care
• implementing a quality improvement programme in a nursing service
• information systems in nursing management
• labour relations and quality of work life