Health Care Financial Management For Nurse Managers: Merging The Heart With The Dollar

Addressing nurse administrators in hospital, clinic, long-term care, and home care settings, Dunham-Taylor (adult nursing, East Tennessee State U.) and Pinczuk (who has held executive positions overseeing finance, administration, and operations for nearly three decades) present 21 papers providing advice on dealing with and understanding financial issues. The papers take a systems approach to analyzing the financial impact of health care decisions, so that nurse administrators can understand the impact of financial decisions on management outcomes and vice versa and can serve as a effective communicator between their health staffs and their financial departments. Papers cover health care and the US economy, the use of information systems, budget principles and strategies, finance and accounting issues, and determining and evaluating staffing.