Nursing Today
Transition and Trends
- 9th Edition - February 1, 2017
- Authors: JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 7 4 1 1 - 5
Loved for its humor, readability, and inviting cartoons, Nursing Today: Transitions and Trends, 9th Edition helps you prepare for the NCLEX-RN® Examination — while giving you val… Read more
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Loved for its humor, readability, and inviting cartoons, Nursing Today: Transitions and Trends, 9th Edition helps you prepare for the NCLEX-RN® Examination — while giving you valuable information to succeed in your professional career. It reflects current issues and trending topics that nurses will face, ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills, but also with career development skills such as resume writing, finding a job, and effective interviewing. This edition features test-taking tips for the NCLEX-RN® Examination and updated Evolve resources for students, including review questions and case studies.
- Thorough coverage of all the most important issues faced by the new nurse, preparing you for a professional career.
- An engaging approach features lively cartoons, chapter objectives, bibliographies, and colorful summary boxes.
- An emphasis on making the transition into the workplace is included in chapters such as NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate, Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing, and Mentorship and Preceptorship.
- Critical Thinking boxes in every chapter offer questions and exercises asking you to apply what you have learned to clinical practice.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes, and evidence-based practice content throughout, focus your attention on the research evidence that supports clinical practice.
- Content on the role of nursing includes changes related to the BSN in 10 campaign and how these might affect entry into practice, as well as differentiated nursing practice models.
- Mentoring and preceptorship content discusses preceptorships as a capstone course versus a formalized preceptorship or nurse externship in which a student is employed by a healthcare facility, as well as the advantages of and tips for getting a nurse externship while in nursing school.
Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition1. Reality Shock2. Personal Management: Time and Self-care Strategies3. Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing5. NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate
Unit II: Nursing: A Developing Profession6. Historical Perspectives7. Nursing Education8. Nursing Theories9. Professional Image of Nursing
Unit III: Nursing Management10. Nursing Management & Leadership11. Building Nursing Management Skills12. Effective Communication & Team Building13. Conflict Management14. Delegation in the Clinical Setting
Unit IV: Current Issues in Health Care 15. The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery 16. Economics in the Health Care Delivery System17. Political Action in Nursing18. Collective Bargaining19. Ethical Issues20. Legal Issues
Unit V: Contemporary Nursing Practice21. Cultural & Spiritual Awareness22. Quality Patient Care23. Nursing Informatics24. Using Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research 25. Work Place Issues26. Emergency Preparedness
Appendix A: Boards of NursingAppendix B: National Nursing OrganizationsAppendix C: American Nurses Association and Constituent Member AssociationsAppendix D: Canadian Nursing Associations
- Edition: 9
- Published: February 1, 2017
- Language: English
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JoAnn Zerwekh
JoAnn Zerwekh is President/CEO at Nursing Education Consultants, Inc., Chandler, Arizona, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
President/CEO, Nursing Education Consultants, Inc., Chandler, Arizona, USAAG
Ashley Zerwekh Garneau
Ashley Zerwekh Garneau works in the Nursing Faculty, Department of Nursing, at GateWay Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Nursing Faculty, Department of Nursing, GateWay Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA