Business acumen in nursing management.

There is a plethora of articles available on the qualities of a great nurse manager. What’s not well documented is the growing demand for nurse managers to have a sense of the business of healthcare. As a service setting, healthcare is constantly challenged to do more with less, to increase output with decreased financial input and to deliver better-quality care to increasing numbers of people. Nursing managers, a large proportion of the healthcare organization’s management team, must be equipped to face these changing and growing demands and to develop the knowledge necessary to ensure that the services and team they oversee meet the established goals.