The future of academics in the country is subjected to causeless political winds and turbulence that hard deep impact on the policy initiatives. At a time, when modern society is experiencing escalating expectations, the health care administrators need to become more sensitive to various aspects of excellence and how best to achieve them.

Planning and management are relatively new subjects. Planning is for tomorrow, management is for today. These subjects have acquired great importance during the past two decades. The increasing demands for medical and nursing management serivices, in the face of limited resources, has brought out the need for careful planning and management of health services, planning and management are considered essentials if higher standardes of health and evidence based nursing health care are to be achieved we live in an age and culture where efficiency and productivity mean a great deal. We have become obsessed with matters of technique and our technological skills have developed tremendously. The ultimate aim of nursing services administration is to provide quality health care to people in the hospital community and home. A nurse will have to team-up with top, middle and lower level management and also have to manage subordinates for which the art of dealing with people and effective relationship is very important. Nurses role is to coordinate and manage the care delivered by other health care providers, community groups, non governmental organizations, family members and members from other sectors to achieve individual and community action for health. Infact “organizing, coordinating and managing the health care system as one of the care elements of nursing practice.

A textbook of nursing management and services in a modest attempt to generate a relevant literature in the subjects of nursing management and services not only for the nursing students as per the ongoing Indian Nursing council curriculum. I believe that this book will prove to be fruitful resource to meet the needs of all those wish to practice evidence based quality nursing care.

Nowadays nursing profession is affected by changes in society and hospital management. Rapid changes occurring due to increase in better educated personnel and increased technology to handle administrative functions. Our main idea to design this book on nursing management is to focus more contents on nursing management and administration so that our nurse can equip themselves for better management of their client and also develop themselves in the field of nursing.

This book contains the general concepts of management and their application in nursing. It will also teach students about management process, leadership, delegation, etc. and to apply This in their professional area.

This book has been written for pregraduate students, graduate nurses and can be used as a reference source for PG nursing students.

This book includes all the topics of management in nursing curriculum according to INC for Basic training programme in nursing.

This book is termed with illustrations, flow charts, table for better understanding of topics. Each chapter contains selected terms, short answers, multiple choice questions and learning activities. Each chapter is summarized under the heading review which provides the basic understanding of each chapter.

We hope that this book will be of immense utility for all those to whom it is intended. We will always apreciate the comment and suggestion for improving the book.

Special acknowledgment should be made for the invaluable assistance given by many people during the preparation of this book. Among them Prof Mrs Triza Jiwan, Principal, College of Nursing, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India, my parents and my brother who encouraged me and gave support to write this book. I am grateful to my lovable Dr Gurwinder and parents-in-law who also gave me incredible motivation. I can never complete this book without encouragement of my sister, brother-in-law and my sweet Shahajnoor and my friend Jagjeet who gave me inspiration and everlasting support.

This book is dedicated to my parents, brother and sister-in-law and sweet Sargun who gave me immense support and for their lifetime inspiration. I have much pleasure in expressing my grateful thanks to my wonderful husband, Mr Yadwinder who provides me with unwavering love and support and our affectionate son Anahad, for his radiant presence.

We are also very grateful to Dr Mrs Kamaljit Kaur, Principal and Professor, Government College of Nursing, Amritsar, Punjab, India for editing the content of this book. A word of gratitude to the M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, especially Mr Bhupesh Arora (General Manager Publishing) for compiling this content beautifully and making it more presentable for the users of this book. Last but not the least we thanks to Almighty God who showered immense blessings.