TY - BOOK AU - Finkler,Steven A. AU - Jones,Cheryl Bland AU - Kovner,Christine Tassone TI - Financial management for nurse managers and executives SN - 9781455700882 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - RT86.7 .F46 2013 U1 - 362.173068 23 PY - 2013///] CY - St. Louis, MO PB - Elsevier KW - Financial Management KW - methods KW - United States KW - Nurses' Instruction KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - economics KW - Nurse Administrators KW - Nurses Instruction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The health care environment -- The role of financial management and nurse leadership in health care organizations -- Key issues in applied economics -- Quality, costs, and financing -- Accounting principles -- Analysis of financial statement information -- Cost management -- Determining health care costs and prices -- Costs and other issues related to recruiting and retaining staff -- Strategic management -- Budgeting concepts -- Operating budgets -- Revenue budgeting -- Performance budgeting -- Controlling operating results -- Variance analysis: examples, extensions, and caveats -- Benchmarking, productivity, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis -- Short-term financial resources -- Long-term financial resources -- Forecasting -- The nurse as entrepreneur -- Nursing and financial management: current issues and future directions ER -