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[registered] 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.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
Approx. 306 illustrations (306 in full color)
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4377-2567-4 (9781437725674)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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(r) 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
