Management for Nurses and Health Professionals Theory into Practice

Management for Nurses and Health Professionals Theory into Practice

Alistair HewisonBlackwell Publishing2004ISBN 0 632 06433 1

Keywords: Clinical governance, Management effectiveness,Organizational culture, Health and medicine

This essential guide to health care management explores clinical governance,middle management, inter professional working and clinical leadership as well as examining the organisational 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.

Contents include:

• “The history of management in the NHS”;

• “New public management”;

• “Clinical governance and quality management”;

• “Organisational culture”;

• “Change in health care organisations”;

• “Leadership in health care”;

• “Hybrid management”;

• “Middle management in the NHS”;

• “Inter professional working”;

• “Domain theory”; and

• “Evidence-based management”.