Amazon.com description: Product Description: This text focuses on the principles, strategies, and techniques of nursing management as they apply to health care settings. The text goes beyond more traditional leadership and management theories and seeks to provide assistance for developing important skills such as communication, recruiting, selecting, motivation of staff, budgeting, risk management and managing conflict. Also included in the text is content on critical thinking, nursing care delivery, research, team building and case management. The authors have drawn on diverse expertise of 28 contributors to give a well-rounded perspective on aspects of nursing management.