Management for Nurses and Health Professionals by Alistair Hewison

Management for Nurses and Health Professionals by Alistair Hewison

Management for Nurses and Health Professionals examines management theory and its applications in healthcare, with an emphasis on relating theory to the organisation of patient care and effective management in everyday practice. This essential guide to health care management explores clinical governance, middle management, interprofessional working and clinical leadership as well as examining the organizational culture of the NHS, change management and management roles. It demonstrates how management theory has influenced health care and encourages the reader to become actively involved in shaping management and health care development. an essential guide for students and qualified staff examines key concepts and theories explores evidence based practice relates theory to practice

' It is so refreshing to find a book that scratches beneath the surface and really tires to look at the whole perspective'

This book provides insight into the various manangement and organisational theories and influences which impact on healthcare and the implications for healthcare professionals. It will enable managers to gain a broader perspective on delivering efficiency and quality in health services. It provides a toolkit for individuals to pick from to maximise their potential for effective management. It its certainly more worthy than the 'MBA in a weekend' type volumes'

Health Service Journal

Alistair Hewison is senior lecturer and research lead for nursing. He has undertaken research investigating the organisation of care over a number of years and published widely on nursing, management and policy in scholarly journals and book chapters.
He has led a number of projects investigating end of life care in a range of settings, service redesign, and the organisation of nursing services. His involvement in this programme of work is centred on understanding how the organisation and management of services can improve care.

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ISBN 13	9780632064335
ISBN 10	0632064331
Title	Management for Nurses and Health Professionals
Author	Alistair Hewison
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2004-04-02
Number of pages	216
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