Nsg Management

Management is as old as human kind and existed since

man has been organized in to communities. Managers

influence all phases of our modern organizations. Our

society simply could not exist as we know it today or

improve its present status without a steady stream of

managers to guide its organizations. Peter Drucker

makes this same point in stating that effective

management is quickly becoming the main resource of

developed countries and the most needed resource of

developing ones (1). Nursing Leadership and Management

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Essentially, the role of managers is to guide

organizations toward goal accomplishment. All

organizations exist for some purpose or objective, and

mangers have the responsibility for combining and using

organizational resources to ensure that the

organizations achieve their purposes. Management

moves organizations toward these purposes or goals by

assigning activities that organization member perform. If

these activities are designed effectively, the production

of each individual worker represents a contribution to

the attainment of organizational goals. Managers strive

to encourage individual activity that will lead to reaching

organizational goals and to discourage individual activity

that hinders organizational goal accomplishment.

Management has no meaning apart from its goals (2).

Management must keep organizational goals clearly in

mind at all times

1.2. Definition of management and nursing

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1.2.1. Definition of management

Different authorities define management differently but

have strong unifying similarities in all the definitions. The

term management can be used in several ways. For Nursing Leadership and Management

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instance, it can simply refer to the process that

managers follow to accomplish organizational goals.

The term can be used, however, to refer to a body of

knowledge. In this context,