Includes index.

Budgeting for the nurse manager -- How does health care reimbursement work? -- Varieties of budgets -- The budget-development work flow -- Building an operating budget -- Understanding capital budgets -- Analyzing budget variances -- Budget reports -- Conclusions.

This is the second in STTI's popular series of practical handbooks for nurse managers. As a nurse manager, one will deal with the economic reality of patient-staffing ratios, reports, and accountants. Acronyms such as FTEs and ADCs can feel like a foreign language many new managers haven't learned yet. This book provides practical tools, tips, and strategies that will help one be a successful nurse manager.

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English.