College of Medicine and Health

Sciences School of Nursing and Midwifery

Department of Adult Health Nursing

Nursing Leadership and Management

By Aminat Ahmed
May 2023
 Content Outlines
• Human Resource Management
• Budgeting
• Material and Equipment Management
• Time Management
• Types of Decisions
• Factors Influence Decision Making

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 Unit 6
Resource Management in the Nursing Services
1.Human Resource Management
 Is an organizational function that effectively
uses and manages the working force.
Key functions of HRM
– Recruitment, Selection
– Performance appraisal and Management
– Compensation, Development, & Benefits
– Employee relations & Labor relations
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2.Budgeting
 is the process of creating a plan to spend your money. This
spending plan is called a budget.
 Budgeting is the process of allocating finite resources to the
prioritized needs of an organization.
 In most cases, for a governmental entity, the budget represents
the legal authority to spend money.
 Adoption of a budget in the public sector implies that a set of
decisions has been made by the governing board and
administrators that culminates in matching a government's
resources with the entity's needs.
 As such, the budget is a product of the planning process.
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3.Material and Equipment Management
• Material management is a scientific technique, concerned
with planning, organizing and controlling the flow of
materials from their initial purchase through internal
operations to the service point through distribution.
• Material management is concerned with providing the
drugs, supplies and equipment needed by health
personnel to deliver health services. The right drugs,
supplies and equipment must be at the right place, at the
right time and in the right quantity in order that health
personnel deliver health services.
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4.Time Management
 Time management means to optimally use
the time available and that includes aspects
of planning, goal setting, prioritizing goals and
activities, communications and delegation.
• Time management in nursing helps nurses
organize and prioritize patient care, internal
administrative tasks, educational
responsibilities and personal obligations.
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 Unit 7
Decision Making
Decision making is the process of choosing the best alternative for reaching
objectives.
1.Types of decisions
Decisions made in the nursing service can be categorized depending upon the
following criteria
 How much time the manager spends in making decision
 What proportion of the organization must be involved in making decision
 The organization function/ the nursing/midwifery functions on which they
focus
 On the basis of these there are three classifications:
1. Ends -Means
2. Administrative-Operational
3. Programmed-Non-programmed

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1. Ends-Means
• Ends: deals with the determination of desired individual or organizational
results to be achieved
• Means: decisions deal with strategic or operational programmes ,
activities that will accomplish desired results. These usually occur during
managerial planning processes, strategy and objective formulation
processes
2. Administrative-Operational
Administrative: made by senior management, which have significant impact
throughout the organization. Usually this type of decision is concerned with
policy, resource allocation and utilization.
Operational: are generally made by mid level and first line managers and
address day to day operational activities of a particular organizational

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3. Programmed-Non -programmed
Programmed: these are repetitive and routine in
nature. Since they can be programmed,
procedures, rules and often manuals are
formulated to cover those situations
None programmed: unique and non- routine

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2.Factors Influencing Decision Making
1. Decision makers attribute
• Knowledge, experience, and judgment
• Perception and personality
• Values and philosophy
2. The Situation
• Urgency of solution and time pressures
• Magnitude and importance
• Structure and uncertainty and risk
• Cost benefit
3. Environmental Constraints
• External
• Internal
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 References
• https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/h2r2/ch_3.asp
• https://repository.poltekkes-kaltim.ac.id/id/ep
rint/611/1/Nursing%20Leadership%20and%20
Management%20-%
20The%20Carter%20Center%20Andvancing.p
df
• https://
www.currentnursing.com/nursing_manageme
nt/material_management_procurement.html
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
MC5308512
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 Acknowledgement
1. For Wollo University College of Medicine and
Health science, School of Nursing and
Midwifery, Department of Adult Health
Nursing
2. For Dr.caridad

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