This management textbook/workbook is designed to help students to apply management concepts and theories to real-life situations. The case studies, based on varied health-care settings and nursing care delivery systems, are broken down into pieces, in order to allow the student to learn to think by critically analyzing each situation in a safe, pressure-free environment. Approximately 25 per cent of the cases presented are solved, and a bibliography at the end of each chapter should help students solve the remaining cases.