Nursing today: transition and trends (paperback)

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A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition helps you make a successful transition from student to practicing nurse. It covers the profession's leading issues and opportunities, ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills but with career development skills including resume writing, finding a job, and effective interviewing. Test-taking tips and strategies prepare you for the NCLEX-RN® exam, and discussions of communication and management issues prepare you to succeed in the workplace. In this edition, well-known educator JoAnn Zerwekh and coauthor Ashley Zerwekh Garneau provide the latest information on nursing issues and trends including health care reform, patient safety, collective bargaining, and emergency preparedness.

Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition

1. Role Transitions

2. Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies

3. Mentorship and Preceptorship

Unit II: Career Development

4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing

5. NCLEX-RN® and the New Graduate

Unit III: Nursing: A Developing Profession

6. Historical Perspectives: Influences of the Past

7. Nursing Education

8. Nursing Theories

9. Image of Nursing: Influences of the Present

Unit IV: Nursing Management

10. Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership

11. Building Nursing Management Skills

12. Effective Communication and Team Building

13. Conflict Management

14. Delegation in the Clinical Setting

Unit V: Current Issues in Health Care

15. The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery

16. Economics of the Health Care Delivery System

17. Political Action in Nursing

18. Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Non-Traditional Approaches

19. Ethical Issues

20. Legal Issues

Unit VI: Contemporary Nursing Practice

21. Cultural and Spiritual Awareness

22. Quality Patient Care

23. Nursing Informatics

24. Using Nursing Research in Practice

25. Workplace Issues

26. Emergency Preparedness