A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting: Skills for Nurse Managers by K. T. Waxman

As of June 20, 2014, contact hours for nurses are no longer available with this product. Nurses don't go into healthcare because they like crunching numbers! But when they become nurse managers, they have to learn a new language of confusing financial jargon and terminology often with little training. A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting: Skills for Nurse Managers, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide specifically designed to help new managers save time and produce, present, and defend the departmental budget. Author KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, offers tips and tools that breakdown the confusing and often foreign, financial side of healthcare. The book helps you: - Comprehend the financial side of healthcare through easy-to-understand advice - Eliminate guesswork with straightforward descriptions of each section of important financial forms and reports - Save time with plain English definitions of potentially confusing financial terminology - Secure executive buy-in with concise explanations of how the nursing department's financial performance affects the entire organization - Handle the new role of manager with quick and helpful field-tested tips and reminders - Prepare budget presentations and build business plans with simple and easy-to-follow instructions - Obtain adequate financial support for the department through right-way, wrong-way tips - Provide time-saving insight to ancillary leaders who also need financial training Read more