This text book is designed to highlight the principles of administration in nursing service and education. It introduces the steps of management process which would enable the nurse students and practitioner to develop an insight to provide quality nursing care and education in any health care and educational center in the country to suit the societal needs. It also provides comprehensiveness in understanding the role of a nurse as a manager. This book can apply to faculties and schools of nursing, and to the administration of nursing service in hospitals or public health agencies. This book...

This book describes trends and issues that influence the way students (and nurses) learn to become competent practitioners, and meet the needs of patients.Competent nurses integrate these changes into their way of being, to become "thinking" nurses as well as "doing" nurses. Thinking nurses learn to integrate essential knowledge, attitudes, and skills into care that involves best practices and evidence- based practices that promote patient safety and quality care Some of these trends and related issues include the following: the extreme and rapid changes in technology in patient care and...