title: DONs face budget dilemmas.
abstract: The annual nursing department budgeting process, which is one of the director of nurses' greatest challenges, has just gotten tougher. DONS will be forced to calculate the additional costs of meeting new federal mandates.
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authors: Hegland
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000193:education*; D002017:Budgets / Q000639:trends*; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education*; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States