The purpose of this book is to assimilate the new insight from nursing into well-established concepts of administration and cover the management facts of an organization or institutions and also to prepare the students for managerial career with concepts, theories and its applications in their respective discipline. New graduate usually do not serve in management positions immediately. This title provides an opportunity for students to explore some of the current issues. After graduation they need to demonstrate many leadership competencies along with providing care, guiding others as team members and team leaders, communicating and collaborating with other healthcare professionals, solving problems, and making decisions to ensure that their patient receive quality and safe care apart from nursing role in the healthcare delivery process like how to improve care and what resources are necessary to provide care effectively. Every nurse, who strives to provide quality care, safe care, continues to advocate for patients and their families, and strives to be recognized as prominent member of the healthcare team; they also need to demonstrate leadership by having knowledge of administration and management concepts.In this edition, the relevant concepts of earlier editions are retained and revised text is added by providing current ideas and views on respective topics and their applications in nursing. The book covers all the contents of management and administration prescribed by the regulatory/statutory bodies, which help to teach nursing students about the management and provide knowledge to practicing nurses about nursing administration. Also this book treats the subject in concise and meaningful way with the principles and procedures used by management for various operations in various organizations Nursing Administration is designed to teach nursing students about the management process and leadership, and to supply the practicing nurses with practical information about nursing administration. Management skills are as important to nurse administrators as their clinical knowledge and skills.Nursing increasingly reflects the population it serves. Nursing profession derives from its ethnic, cultural, social, economic and gender diversity, thereby enhancing its capacity to respond to healthcare needs of people. It is, in fact, that the healthcare organizations of yesterday are the new organizations of today with complex needs. Nursing has a major role to play, so each and every nurse needs to be a leader and speaker for patients; to improve safe and quality care. It also provides inputs into response to changes that are present every day in the healthcare delivery system and its multiple types of healthcare delivery organizations at all levels. In view of these needs, this book includes many teaching-learning features. It considers the needs of student who enters the nursing program. This text is sequentially organized into 31 chapters; each chapter stands on its own merit and may be read independently of others. Every attempt has been made to maintain simplicity and lucidity of language and style