Making the case for nurses as managers of nursing resources.
The management of nursing services is challenging, fascinating, demanding and creative, but becomes more so in a country organizing its health care infrastructure from scratch and looking for new innovative solutions. Zimbabwe is such a country. And with nurses comprising 75-80% of its health care personnel and being increasingly given more responsibilities, the task of managing this valuable resource becomes formidable. Below, the author reports on how nurse managers are meeting their new challenge.
Kadandara
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Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe.
D000288:Administrative Personnel; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009726:Nurses; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010551:Personality; D015030:Zimbabwe