Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives, 4th Edition

Key Features

• Pedagogical aids include chapter goals and an introduction to begin each chapter and concludes with implications for the nurse manager and key concepts for review to reinforce what was learned.
• Key Concepts include terms discussed throughout each chapter with their definitions. These terms are also included in the comprehensive glossary offered Online in the Student Resources.
• Two chapter ending appendixes that offer additional samples to help reinforce content covered within the chapter.

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New to This Edition

• Four new chapters - Quality, Costs and Financing; Revenue Budgeting; Variance Analysis: Examples, Extensions, and Caveats, Benchmarking, Productivity, and Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
• Includes new information on the new Medicare prescription bill and what it means for healthcare providers, managers and executives.
• Contains additional information on the role transition of nurses from the bedside or staff nurse role, to nurse manager and nurse executive.
• Adds practice problems in various chapters with answers available in the online instructors resource .
• Updates information on current nursing workforce issues and recurring nursing shortages.
• Updates information which focuses on health financing/computing and the necessity of computers in budgeting and finance.

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Author Information

By Steven A. Finkler, PhD, CPA, Program in Health Policy and Management, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, NY; Cheryl Jones, RN, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC and Christine T. Kovner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Division of Nursing, School of Nursing, New York University, New York, NYBack To Top