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NUR274 Topics in Nursing: Social & Economic Issues
Advances nursing leadership in health care, with a focus on tomorrow, by providing information and thoughtful analyses of current and emerging best practices in health care management, economics, and policymaking.
Provides an operational knowledge of financial management theory and concepts, how to apply these ideas to real-world healthcare business settings, and how to use spreadsheet analysis for making effective financial decisions.
Through a careful look at the effects of the restructuring strategies chosen and implemented by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the author examines management's efforts to balance service and survival. By showing the effects of hospital restructuring on nurses' ability to plan, evaluate, and deliver excellent care, Weinberg provides a stinging indictment of standard industry practices that underestimate the contribution nurses make both to hospitals and to patient care.