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The Fundamentals of Accounting and Budgeting for Nurse Managers and Leaders

Self-Directed Accelerated Immersion Learning Experience

This is a unique Textbook Novel whose time has come. There are many accounting and budgeting textbooks targeted to nursing management in clinical, academic and service fields. However, as the subject matter is technical, it is difficult to present in a straightforward manner and keep the reader’s interest without overwhelming them with financial jargon. This book provides graduate nursing students, nurse managers and aspiring nurse managers and leaders uses a unique format of a textbook novel based on the  Pedagogy of the use of an exemplar, or practice narratives told in the first person that provide a theoretical basis for teaching key concepts through fostering professional self-understanding.  Self-directed learning is fostered through a unique stop and study approach of see-one; do-one; teach-one with worksheets and case studies with corresponding easy step-by-step formulas and appendices designed to enhance learning of accounting concepts and reports, personnel, revenue and supply budgeting, variance analysis, return on investment and payback, and development of entrepreneurial business plans. Woods’ combination of over thirty years of expertise in academia and service as an Academic Hospital CNO and Associate Dean for Clinical Nursing Services and now as a Professor in Nursing make her uniquely qualified to present this material. The book is based on the premise that an accelerated immersion experience that transcends academia and service by providing a practical way to be successful in day-to-day management of complex budgets will allow nurse managers and leaders to become competent financial managers in any health care setting in record time.