Reviews

"CNOs are responsible for ensuring their nursing leadership teams understand how the decisions they make on a daily basis impact organizational finances and quality of care. In The Nurse Manager's Guide to Budgeting & Finance, 2nd Edition, Al Rundio provides exemplars for crucial leadership development and successful fiduciary knowledge on your nursing team. Armed with this knowledge, nurses will be empowered to lead your organization with contemporary financial acumen and practice. Both editions will become staples in your nursing leadership library. Once you read this book, you will wonder how you survived without these tools in your toolbox."-Joanne O. Miller, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer/Vice President Patient Care Services
Sibley Memorial Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine"Nurse leaders are uniquely positioned to deliver revenue maximization and improved clinical outcome results demanded by healthcare reform. A comprehensive understanding of budgeting is imperative to fulfill this major accountability. In this edition of The Nurse Manager's Guide to Budgeting & Finance, Rundio provides a budgeting context in his new chapters on healthcare reform, organizational governance, and QSEN competencies and has updated his clear, concise guide to clinical financial management. Required reading for nurse leaders."-Donald T. Wenzler, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer
Antelope Valley Hospital"This second edition of The Nurse Manager's Guide to Budgeting & Finance is an essential book for nursing students, professionals, and managers alike because it addresses financial issues nurse managers regularly encounter. Often, nursing students and professional nurses are catapulted into manager positions without the necessary knowledge and skills in the financial area where they are expected to function. This edition covers a broad range of topics related to healthcare finance, including accounting, budgeting, and reimbursement issues, as well as new chapters on the Affordable Care Act, healthcare governing boards, and quality and safety issues that nurse leaders deal with regularly. A 'musthave' guide for all nurses who have administrative responsibilities, this book is full of down-to-earth, real-life examples that help nurses better understand financial management. I guarantee that you will use this book often as you maneuver through your administrative duties."-William J. Lorman, JD, PhD, MSN, RN
Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer
Livengrin Foundation, Inc."The leadership competencies needed in today's healthcare market are fundamentally different from what many nurses learned in the past. Al Rundio has provided a comprehensive, succinct, and contemporary perspective that supports the needed learnings of present-day nurse leaders. The Nurse Manager's Guide to Budgeting & Finance, 2nd Edition, should be required reading for all nurse managers and directors."-Michelle Conley, MBA, BSN, RN, CENP
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Aria Health