Healthcare Management -- Nursing Management Volume

Author: Cao Ronggui
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: In hospital management, nursing management is a crucial component. The number of nursing staff in hospitals is limited, they are widely distributed, and their professionalism is strong. Proper management not only improves treatment outcomes and promotes patient recovery but also enhances the overall management of the hospital. In recent years, the development of nursing has introduced theories from many interdisciplinary fields. Nursing management, guided by the principles of management, aims to provide a more systematic and effective approach to nursing work. This book is structured around management theory, introducing various management theories widely used in nursing practice, supplemented by case studies in nursing management to help readers connect theory with practice and improve and refine various nursing management tasks.
The Hospital Management: Nursing Management volume consists of ten chapters. The first two chapters outline the general principles and basic theories of nursing management, explaining how nursing management has evolved and incorporated various management theories. Starting from the third chapter, it discusses the management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in separate chapters. It also provides in-depth coverage of human resource management, quality management, and hospital infection management in nursing. As China's healthcare sector is gradually transitioning into a legal framework, a chapter is dedicated to listing the relevant regulations that nurses should be aware of in their work.
Nursing management not only provides guidelines and theoretical foundations for nursing managers at all levels but also emphasizes that as nurses, since their service are human beings, they should also learn management knowledge to arrange and manage patients' healthy lifestyles and disease prevention alongside their care. Especially in China, where community health services are being developed, nurses are responsible for the entire care and management of patients who are transferred from the community to the hospital and then return to the community. This is what is known as case management, which is widely practiced abroad.
The chapters in this book are concise and easy to understand, making it suitable as a reference and self-study guide for all types of nursing staff. It covers basic principles and principles of modern management, as well as the planning function of nursing management, the organizing function of nursing management, nursing human resource management, and nursing quality management, among other content.