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Principles and Practice of Nursin., , or unfavorable. When resources are, , conditions are favorable anagement effort, , scarce and conditions difficult the necessary m, can also be difficult., , Nursing Management Parallels Nursing Process, Gillies describes nursing management as a process that support, and parallels the nursing process that should entail a progressive, sequence of interrelated activities in a logical manner. Nursing, management, like nursing process, includes all the steps of data, gathering, diagnosing, planning, implementation, and, evaluation as shown in Figure 2.1., , , , , , , Planning, , , , , , Organising, , , , , Diagnosis, , jursing., __ \process, , , , , , , , Figure 2.1: Nursing management vs nursing process, , Nursing management is also viewed as self-regulating and, self-correcting like nursing process by which nurses provide, care, cure and comfort for the patients, in the same way, in the, , Men, Money AS, Material, , , , , Management Functions, , Communication Facilities, , 1g Management and Administration, , nursing management process; the nurse managers do, , th, through others to achieve this goal. © Work, , Nursing Management—A General System Theo,, , ry, Approach, Nursing management is also viewed from the standpoint, general system theory. A system is an assemblage of a, s, , connected or interrelated so as to form a complex unity: a, composed of parts or subparts in orderly arrangement acc,, to some scheme or plan., , Nursing management is described as a series of interrelated, events that include inputs of energy, material, and information:, systematic transformation of such input into a preplanned Product, patient care; and monitoring of system input and through i, transformation process for the purpose of correcting, malfunction as shown in Figure 2.2., , System approach of management provides an integrated, approach of managing. It also provides a framework thrc, which organization-environment interaction can be analyz, facilitates decision-making. But this system is abstract in nai, and lacks universality., , Whole, Ording, , , , , , , , LEVELS OF NURSING MANAGEMENT, , Levels of nursing management are classified into three catego:, on the basis of hierarchy, their position and rel, responsibilities. These levels are: top, middle and operatio, level as shown in Figure 2.3., , , , , , , , Top Level, , In nursing services, Assistant Directors are at the top management, at State Directorate level and Chief nursing officers or Nursing, superintendent or Matrons in the hospitals. Top management is, the source of authority and it establishes goals, policies and, objectives for the nursing services. They are mainly engaged in, , , , , , , , , , , , , Quality, Patient care, , Nurses, Satisfaction