Introducing A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting: Skills for Nurse Managers, a comprehensive guide designed specifically to help nurse managers produce, present, and defend the departmental budget. Shouldering the finance and budgeting responsibilities thrust upon new nurse managers can be mind boggling--especially without a comprehensive training program. That"s why A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting breaks down the confusing--often foreign--financial side of healthcare. With this one-of-a-kind resource, you"ll find step-by-step instruction, useful tools, and helpful charts to breakdown the confusing language, number crunching, and report reading that is vital for budget planning and preparing. A Practical Guide to Finance and Budgeting will: help new nurse managers understand the financial side of healthcare, walk you through each element of important financial forms and reports, define confusing financial terminology, explain the importance of the nursing department"s financial performance to the entire organization, provide quick and helpful insider tips and reminders for handling your new role as nurse manager, help you prepare budget presentations and build business plans, determine the right way and the wrong way to get adequate financial support for your unit.