Newer Trends in Management of Nursing Services and Education

This textbook focuses on the learning needs of BSc, Post Basic BSc and MSc nursing students with meticulous effort to fulfil the requirements on the course of management prescribed by Indian Nursing Council.• Includes 15 sections and 28 chapters.• It is designed to meet the present and future goal of learners to function as effective nurse managers and administrators in hospital, ward or nursing unit and academic arena.• Learning Objectives are presented in the beginning of each chapter for the learners to focus on the most important educational information in that particular chapter and facilitate them a mental readiness to learn.• Conceptualization of each topic is presented in a comprehensive manner with clear and simple writing style.• Tables, boxes and charts are presented according to the topics to provide a supportive material for reinforcing the concepts.• Research highlights- contributions by different nurse scientists sharing their research findings related to the topic and expanded knowledge are presented in this book.• Summary points are presented at the end of the text to highlight important concepts and information for a quick review by learners.• Review questions consist of both essay-questions and short notes prepared logically to enable the learners to recapitulate the knowledge/information on what has been learnt.• References have been given that are recent, relevant and updated to enable the students to strengthen their current knowledge and motivate for further learning.• Glossary appears in alphabetical order at the end of this book to help the learners to explain the concept relevant to nursing management in a simple manner.