Leadership and Management for Nurses Core Competencies for Quality Care

ANITA FINKELMAN, MSN, RN, is founder and president of Resources for Excellence, a health care consulting firm. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor/Clinical Nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. She has served as Director of Continuing Education and Associate Professor/Clinical Nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. Her 30 years of experience in psychiatric nursing includes clinical, educational, and administrative roles in a variety of health care settings. In her administrative positions, she has had experience with managed care and has developed and taught a course on managed care. Ms. Finkelman has authored many books and lectured frequently on administration, managed care, continuing education, and psychiatric nursing, both nationally and internationally, and has also been active in many professional organizations such as the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau. She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee and Editorial Board for "Home Care Provider." Ms. Finkelman has published many books and journal articles throughout her career, including Psychiatric-Mental Health Case Studies published in"Critical Thinking in Nursing: Case Studies Across the Curriculum," Carol Green (Ed.), Prentice Hall Health, 1999; "Psychiatric Home Care," Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1997; "Psychiatric Administration Manual," Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1994 (annual supplements 1995, 1996); "Quality Assurance for Psychiatric Nursing," Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1990 (annual supplements: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994). She has also contributed chapters on the topic of health care delivery and managed care for other new textbooks to bepublished in 2001, including "The Health Care Delivery System," in "Community Health Nursing" Promoting the Health of Aggregates," Mary Nies and Melanie McEwen (Eds.), W.B. Saunders Company.