Book excerpt: Providing quality content on management and education in the current health care settings, this book is particularly useful for the students of B.Sc. nursing (4th year), where the nurses have to manage patients and simultaneously provide nursing services in an effective manner. This text provides comprehensive coverage of all the important processes and techniques that are important for training and development of nurses as good administrators. Strictly as per the INC syllabus Comprehensive and exhaustive coverage yet concise and well structured Dual treatment of concepts: theoretical and applied Lucid style with easy language for ease of comprehension Student-friendly style of presentation: short sentences, bulleted lists, and ample number of tables, figures and charts End-of-chapter questions including multiple-choice questions, especially included keeping in view the examination perspective New to the Second Edition New concepts/techniques of management added in several chapters Updated information added in a number of chapters Outdated content has been replaced with new up-to-date information An altogether new look and feel provided to the book