Management of Nursing Services and Education - E-Book (eBook)

Clement I (Autor)

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2015 | 2. Auflage
566 Seiten
Elsevier Health Sciences (Verlag)
978-81-312-4012-0 (ISBN)

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Providing quality content on management and education in the current health care settings, this book is particularly useful for the students of B.Sc. nursing (4th year), where the nurses have to manage patients and simultaneously provide nursing services in an effective manner.
This text provides comprehensive coverage of all the important processes and techniques that are important for training and development of nurses as good administrators.
Strictly as per the INC syllabus
Comprehensive and exhaustive coverage yet concise and well structured
Dual treatment of concepts: theoretical and applied
Lucid style with easy language for ease of comprehension
Student-friendly style of presentation: short sentences, bulleted lists, and ample number of tables, figures and charts
End-of-chapter questions including multiple-choice questions, especially included keeping in view the examination perspectiveNew to the Second Edition
New concepts/techniques of management added in several chapters
Updated information added in a number of chapters
Outdated content has been replaced with new up-to-date information
An altogether new look and feel provided to the book

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Chapter 1

Introduction to management in nursing

Introduction

Management is a general term which is described in various ways, with significantly different meaning. Also, there is no globally accepted definition in particular. Management is commonly termed as functioning with and through the personnel, individually or in group, to manage the resources to the maximum to achieve the objectives. Leaders are deputed to manage particular fragments of overall objectives. The management techniques are significantly relevant to those who control the behaviour of those under them to accomplish the goals. The management process comprises four main components: framing strategies of planning management, systemizing the work process, reinforcing or motivating the workers and supervising to achieve the goals of the management. To accomplish the goals of management, therefore, certain important technical, personal and conceptual skills are required.

Concepts of management

1. Management is the process of achieving its objectives by utilizing and controlling the group of appointed candidates in order to complete the management task. Providing good work environment ensures that the workers perform well, and ultimately, the group performance removes the hurdles and provides ways for maximizing the skill in attaining the objectives of the management.

2. Management involves a set of activities directed at the efficient and effective utilization of resources—human, financial and physical—through planning, organizing, leading and controlling functions. It is based on economic resources, goals, processes and authority.

Definitions of management

1. According to George R. Terry, management is defined as implementing specific functional activities that include framing strategies of planning, systemizing the work planned, and implementing, supervising and directing the work performance to achieve the goals by utilizing the adequate manpower and other resources.

2. According to E.F.L. Brech, management is defined as the process to ensure that as the work gets completed, it mainly focuses on work orientation, planning and implementing the planned strategies to achieve the management goals.

3. According to Stanley Vane, management is defined as the activity of determining the control over the activity of personnel’s in order to achieve the expected goals of the management.

4. According to S. George, management is defined as an important activity of utilizing the work from all personnel who complete the task by controlling and supervising so as to accomplish the institutional goals.

5. According to William Spriegel, management is defined as an important task that is concerned with the movement and control of different activities in order to attain the objectives of the management.

6. According to R. Kreitner, management is defined as an activity of the institution that is concerned with solving the environment issues of the workers, which motivates the workers and the institutional goals are achieved.

7. Fredrick Hooper: By management we mean a bunch of complexities which, in a commercial organization, start downward right from the level of directors, while the officials work together. It includes supervisory staff at the lower level.

Definitions of nursing management

1. Nursing management is defined as the process of planning, organizing, activating and controlling the managerial functions of nursing in order to determine and accomplish the objectives of nursing care.

2. Nursing management is the art of getting work done through and with nursing staff by the nurse manager. It is a cooperative effort aimed at providing high-quality care to the patient.

3. In nursing management, the nurse manager or nurse administrator delegates the workload to the nursing staff with authority and responsibility, and controls the work in a disciplined manner in order to achieve quality care and patient satisfaction.

4. Nursing management is an intellectual process in which the nurse manager plans, supervises, and coordinates the work of staffs, reports to higher authorities and responds to the emergent situations in order to achieve high productivity and quality patient care.

5. Nursing management is defined as the function of the nurse manager to forecast and plan, to organize and command and to coordinate and control the activities or jobs done by the nursing staff in order to achieve their objectives in the provision of holistic care to the patient.

6. Nursing management is a process of working through nursing personnel to promote and maintain health, and prevent illness and suffering.

7. Nursing management includes the role of nurse manager who plans, organizes, directs and controls the available resources in order to provide effective economic care to groups of patients efficiently.

8. Nursing management is a process that is more complex than the nursing process, as it directly deals with human beings, physical resources, organizational and psychological processes within a creative and innovative climate for the realization of organizational goals.

Need for management

1. Management improves economic and social standards. It contributes to the healthy economy of a nation by making effective utilization of its resources and bringing fair returns on investment.

2. Specialized management, i.e. management by experts, keeps abreast of fresh challenges by providing new ideas, imagination and foresight, and developing appropriate business strategies to make the enterprise more competitive in facing the complexities inherent in modernization.

3. Management makes human efforts more productive. It helps to improve equipment and plants, products, services as well as human relations.

4. Employees expect the management to contribute to their well-being and development by keeping the social and economic requirements of workers in mind.

5. Demanding and cost-conscious customers always look to the management for quality products at reasonable costs.

6. The success or failure of a business depends on good management. It produces good business by creating a dynamic and life-giving force in the organization. Planning, organizing, actuating and controlling call for judgement and courage. Computers and robots are no answer for a firmly entrenched and indispensable managerial class.

7. The government looks at organizations with good management to run its business in a lawful way and act as partners in achieving its goal of an egalitarian society.

Characteristics and nature of management (figs. 1.1 and 1.2)

1. Global application: The management function has universal application wherein management applies the principles, rules and regulations to achieve the management goals which are similar everywhere. It can be any firm that has its own hierarchy levels but follows the similar steps in management.

2. Goal oriented: Every organization has certain objectives and it is the task of the management to attain them.

3. An intangible process: Management is an intangible process wherein the essence of the management function is to gain more profit. Workers function well with virtuousness, which ultimately reflects the quality of the institution.

4. It is a distinguished activity of the management process that includes the vital functions such as planning, organizing, directing and controlling. These functions are directed towards the utilization of human resources to achieve the expected goals.

5. It is a kind of social activity that involves supervising, directing, controlling and coordinating the activity of the personnel who perform similar and different works.

6. It is a kind of decision process about the functioning of the different aspects of the management.

7. It is a kind of inter-corporation or integrating process wherein the management activity is concerned with combining the functions of materials, human and the machines to function and carry out the activities of the management to accomplish the management goals.

8. The main task of the management is to provide guidance to systemize the disorganized human resources, machines, money and the equipment towards useful and effective organization.

9. An activating factor: Management is the factor that activates other factors of production and puts them to effective use. This is more so in the case of the human factor. Management through guidance, training, incentives, rewards and control motivates employees and directs their efforts to the best advantage of the enterprise in the accomplishment of its objectives.

10. Management applies the scientific and artistic ways of implementing the solution for the organizational problems, by applying the globally applicable principles, rules and regulations such that the human efforts are effectively supervised and guided.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Pflegemanagement / Qualität / Recht
• ISBN-10: 81-312-4012-6 / 8131240126
• ISBN-13: 978-81-312-4012-0 / 9788131240120