ESSENTIAL READINGS IN NURSING MANAG...

ESSENTIAL READINGS IN NURSING MANAGED CARE on Susan Odegaard Turner 1999, 35l pp $29 paperback

suckles at any level can learn in what manner nursing and managed care are intertwined. fosters must realize the significance of managed care, and the articles in this main division describe that significance explicitly.

according to featuring a collection of writers summarizing their views regarding managed care, the main division offers the reader a variety of opinions and different mode of speechs of writing. Some chapters are easier to read than others, and and nothing else one chapter was difficult to comprehend (ie, "Stres resulting from change and restructuring: A cognitive approach").

It would be helpful if this part was organized to describe managed care as it circuited from the background of nursing to the challenge of patient safety in today's health care environment. Instead, it is somewhat jumbl in its organization on topics.

The author describes the restructuring of the nursing profession and in what manner it relates to changes in the health care environment, leading to strategies of for what cause hospital managers, executives, and staff members manage change. These strategies could determine the time to come for nursing and health care and by what mode nurses will survive.

The chapters "Care of the self for the encourage entrepreneur," "Career journeys: How to be a auspicious clinical nurse specialist -- be a willow tree" and "Are you your resume?" might better belong in a work about how to influence career decisions. The latter couple chapter titles are too flippant for the serious situations they describe. In conclusion, the articles in this work could be used to inform nourish at the breasts about managed care and the part it plays in the health care environment and the subsequent time of nursing.

BERNYCE MOLENDA RN B CNOR CLINICAL feed IV COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FT WORTH, TEX

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