Management in Nursing.

Management is the process of reaching organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources.
Is a person who controls and manipulates resources and expenditures, to meet the organizational goals.
OR
The definition of a manager is a person responsible for supervising and motivating employees and for directing the progress of an organization.

The management process, like the nursing process, includes gathering data, diagnosing problems, planning, interviewing and evaluating outcomes. But in reality each step of the management process is more complex than the nursing process.
The management process consists of working with human and physical resources and organizational and psychological processes within a creative and innovative climate for the realization of organizational goals.
Later, Luther Gullick, 1973, expanded these and introduced seven activities of management
:Planning, Organization ,Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting
( POSDCORB).

there are Three Levels of Management.
I: Top Level Management
As the nurse director, responsible for managing nursing departments in the hospital, and all middle managers report to him.

The main role of the First level manager
1. Determines the objectives, policies and plans of the organization.
2. Mobilizes (assemble and bring together) available resources.
3. Does mostly the work of thinking, planning and deciding. Therefore, they are also called as the Administrators and the Brain of the organization.
4. They spend more time in planning and organizing.