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Budgeting concepts for nurse managers.
Holman Biotech Commons - Reserve RT89 .F53 2008
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkler, Steven A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing services--Administration.
- Nursing services.
- Health facilities--Business management.
- Health facilities.
- Budget in business.
- Nurse administrators.
- Budgets.
- Nurse Administrators.
- Medical Subjects:
- Budgets.
- Nurse Administrators.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition / Steven A. Finkler, Mary L. McHugh.
- Place of Publication:
- St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, [2008]
- Summary:
- An in-depth guide to preparing accurate nursing budgets, this book will help you improve your financial skills and contribute to your organization's strategic planning. It discusses the different types of budgeting, the budgeting process, forecasting, variance analysis, and costing out nursing services. A variety of settings are included: hospitals, long-term care, home health, community health, managed care, and others. With this guide, you'll learn how to communicate effectively with financial managers, succeed in your role in the budgeting process, and assist in the delivery of high-quality patient care at the lowest possible cost.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the different types of budgets
- Budgeting process
- Motivation and incentives
- Cost concepts
- Personnel issues
- Forecasting
- Strategic planning and business plans
- Operating budget
- Revenue budgeting
- Capital budgeting
- Quantitative methods for capital budgeting
- Performance budgeting
- Cash budgeting
- Variance analysis
- Variance analysis: examples, extensions, and caveats
- Budgeting for information systems
- Budgeting for the operating room
- Benchmarking, productivity, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Costing out nursing services
- Sample budget forms and instructions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781416033417
- 1416033416
- OCLC:
- 163617224
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