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D R Blaney

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The assessment center: evaluating managerial potential.

This assessment center helps unit directors critique their own managerial strengths and weaknesses and formulate effective self-improvement plans and growth strategies. Structured activities also provide a framework for administrators to identify managerial talent and to develop potential nurse managers effectively.

Administrative Personnel↗

Developing financial management skills: an educational approach.

One of the nurse executive's most important activities is responding to the new financial pressures in health care. Nurse executives can effectively address this concern through developing nurse managers' financial skills. Financial management seminars can be an effective way to address this development need. This article reports on a seminar in which managers are shown how they can best motivate staff nurses, and provide them with new tools and techniques to perform in a more cost-effective manner.

Administrative Personnel↗

An historical review of positions in baccalaureate education in nursing as basic preparation for professional nursing practice 1960-1984.

"The call for the baccalaureate degree in nursing as the educational basis for the profession has a lengthy history. Nursing leaders have suggested the need for the baccalaureate for more than a half century" (Education for, 1983, p. 3). The article culls comments concerning baccalaureate education as entry into professional nursing practice from published statements of selected organizations and groups, and places them in a historical perspective from 1960-1984. Materials from the American Nurses' Association (ANA), National League for Nursing (NLN), American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), American Society for Nursing Service Administrators (ASNSA), Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Commission on Nursing are included.

American Nurses' Association↗