Five Keys to Successful Nursing Management

Springhouse & Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003. 504 pp; $45.95; 1-800-638-3030; http://www.lww.com

A practical nursing management guide, this text provides easy-to-follow strategies and skills for the 5 keys to successful management: leadership, people, budgeting and finance, quality care, and information technology. Endorsed by Nursing Management and written by well-known nurse managers, this book covers day-to-day and long-term problems, supported by completed forms and reports, charts, flowcharts, decision trees, and checklists.