title: Using the "big picture" to get what you want.
abstract: Few basic nursing education programs provide the student nurse with courses in business and finance. Those skills were most often acquired by nurse managers when they were promoted from a staff position to a management position and they were acquired on the job. As the health care environment becomes more complex, so too does the scope of business and financial skills. Today's nurse manager must develop a wider range of skills to survive. Among the most important is an ability to connect unit level needs to the overall goals of the organization.
authors.affiliation: St Francis Hospital, Tulsa, OK, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Muller-Smith
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003132:Commerce / Q000193:education*; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000191:economics*