Twenty-one academics, consultants, practitioners, and librarians from the fields of nursing, finance, and administration contribute 20 chapters addressing healthcare financial management issues for nurse managers. Designed as a textbook for nursing students and as a resource for nursing professionals it features sections on the necessary essentials for financial viability, providing value-based service, workforce management, healthcare and the economy, budget principles, financial strategies, and finance and accounting issues. The text emphasizes the interrelation of all aspects of healthcare with finances, and how one influences the other, while at the same time maintaining the focus of healthcare organizations-- serving patients. The third edition addresses the new value-based reimbursement environment that has replaced the old volume-based reimbursement environment, and what is needed to achieve this objective; collaboration in healthcare decision making; shifting the role of the administrator to support care leaders; and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)