Nursing Today
Transition and Trends
- 10th Edition - November 19, 2019
- Imprint: Mosby
- Authors: JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 4 9 7 2 - 5
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Request a sales quoteEnsure you thoroughly understand the most important issues you’ll face when entering practice! Loved for its humor, readability, and inviting cartoons, Nursing Today: Transitions and Trends, 10th Edition helps you to prepare for the NCLEX-RN® — while giving you valuable information to succeed throughout your career. It reflects current issues and trending topics that nurses will face, ensuring that you not only graduate with patient care skills, but also with career development skills such as resume writing, finding a job, and effective interviewing. The 10th Edition features major content updates on Workplace Issues, Nursing Informatics, Cultural and Spiritual Awareness and Ethical Issues, and evidence-based practice boxes throughout to help you focus on the research evidence that supports clinical practice. Additionally, it includes test-taking tips for the NCLEX-RN® Examination and updated Evolve Resources for students with new review questions and case studies.
- An emphasis on transitioning into the workplace is included in chapters such as NCLEX-RN® and the New Graduate, Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing, Mentorship and Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs.
- 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.
- Critical Thinking boxes in every chapter offer questions and exercises asking you to apply what they 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.
- QSEN competencies related to effective communication, team building, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and quality assurance highlighted throughout.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition
- 1: Role Transitions
- Transitions
- Reality shock
- Role transformation
- Conclusion
- Rules of the road
- 2: Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies
- Managing your time
- Managing tasks
- Managing others
- Managing your goals
- Self-care strategies
- Conclusion
- 3: Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs
- Historical background
- What mentoring is and is not
- What is a dedicated education unit?
- What is a nurse residency program?
- Conclusion
- 4: Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing
- What is happening in the job market?
- Self-assessment
- Researching prospective employers
- How do i go about researching prospective employers?
- What do i need to know to assess the organization?
- Portfolios
- Traditional and employer-focused resumes
- The interview process
- Critical first 5 minutes!
- Phases of the interview
- How do i handle unexpected questions or situations?
- Job offers and possible rejection
- Conclusion
- 5: NCLEX-RN® Exam and the New Graduate
- The NCLEX-RN® exam
- Preparing for the NCLEX-RN® exam
- Conclusion
- Unit II: Nursing: A Developing Profession
- 6: Historical Perspectives: Influences on the Present
- Nursing history: people and places
- American nursing: critical factors
- History of nursing education
- The nurse’s role: the struggle for definitions
- Conclusion
- 7: Nursing Education
- Path of diploma education
- Path of associate degree education
- Path of baccalaureate education
- Other types of nursing education
- Nontraditional paths for nursing education
- Graduate education
- Credentialing: licensure and certification
- Nursing education: future trends
- Conclusion
- 8: Nursing Theories
- Nursing theory
- Who are the nursing theorists?
- Future of nursing theory
- Conclusion
- 9: Professional Image of Nursing
- Professional image of nursing
- Nursing organizations
- Conclusion
- Unit III: Nursing Management
- 10: Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership
- Management versus leadership
- The twenty-first century: a different age for management and for leadership
- Power and authority in nursing management
- Management problem solving
- The challenge of change
- Conclusion
- 11: Building Nursing Management Skills
- Communication and patient safety
- Communicating when it is critical—what do you need to do?
- Managing time in the clinical setting
- Managing others
- Conclusion
- 12: Effective Communication, Team Building, and Interprofessional Practice
- Communication in the workplace
- What does my image communicate to others?
- Components of effective communication
- Group communication
- Team building and interprofessional practice
- Assertive styles of communication
- Conclusion
- 13: Conflict Management
- Conflict
- Conflict resolution
- Dealing with difficult people
- Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Conclusion
- 14: Delegation in the Clinical Setting
- What does delegation mean?
- Who is accountable here?
- The right task
- What can i delegate or assign?
- The right circumstances
- The right person
- The right direction and communication
- The right supervision and evaluation
- Conclusion
- Unit IV: Current Issues in Health Care
- 15: The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery
- What are some important challenges currently facing health care?
- Affordable care act
- Strategies to control costs
- Value-based care, pay for performance, and accountable care organzations
- Case management
- Disease management
- Evidence-based practice
- Shortage of nurses
- The impact of the 2010 institute for medicine “future of nursing” report
- Quality of care and patient safety
- The effects of various patterns of nursing care delivery
- Nurse staffing
- Conclusion
- 16: Economics of the Health Care Delivery System
- What are the trends affecting the rising costs of health care?
- What is the effect of the changing economic environment on clinical practice?
- How is the us health care system financed?
- Introduction to Economics
- Budgets
- Conclusion
- 17: Political Action in Nursing
- What exactly is politics?
- What is power, and where does it come from?
- Networking among colleagues
- Building coalitions
- Controversial political issues affecting nursing
- Conclusion
- 18: Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Nontraditional Approaches
- When did the issues leading to collective bargaining begin?
- The evolution of collective bargaining in nursing
- Who represents nurses for collective bargaining?
- The debate over collective bargaining
- Future trends
- Conclusion
- 19: Ethical Issues
- Understanding ethics
- Conclusion
- 20: Legal Issues
- Sources of law
- Court actions based on legal principles
- Nursing Licensure
- Negligence
- Who might have liability (responsibility) in a claim?
- What defenses might be available in malpractice claims?
- Common categories of negligence
- Related Legal Concepts
- Criminal actions
- Risk management and quality improvement
- Legal issues affecting nursing
- Conclusion
- Unit V: Contemporary Nursing Practice
- 21: Cultural and Spiritual Awareness
- Culture and spirituality
- Cultural and spiritual assessment
- Conclusion
- 22: Quality Patient Care
- Standards of high-quality health care management
- History and evolution of quality in health care
- What are core measures?
- What is hospital consumer assessment of health care providers and systems?
- What is “Hospital compare”?
- Just what is the joint commission?
- Monitoring the quality of health care
- What are some other agencies influencing patient safety?
- Quality improvement methods
- Tools and processes for continuous quality improvement
- How do we use DMAIC
- Health care provider credentialing for quality improvement
- Health literacy
- Conclusion
- 23: Nursing Informatics
- Nursing informatics
- Professional practice, trends, and issues
- Electronic health records
- Trends
- The next generation of health care delivery
- Patients and the internet
- Data access at the point of care
- Nursing informatics and you
- Conclusion
- 24: Using Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research
- What is evidence-based practice?
- The need for nursing practice based on research
- What is nursing research utilization?
- Research utilization compared with nursing research and the conduct of research
- Defining your practice context
- The national institute of nursing research
- The agency for healthcare research and quality
- Conclusion
- 25: Workplace Issues
- Questions to ask when starting a new position
- Ergonomic hazards for health care workers
- Workplace violence: a growing concern in health care
- Other workplace issues
- Conclusion
- 26: Emergency Preparedness
- What is public health preparedness?
- Clinical preparedness
- What is triage?
- Public health preparedness and administrative efforts
- Community health nurse issues and public health preparedness
- What do i need to know about community preparedness issues?
- What do i need to know about disaster mental health?
- Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 10
- Published: November 19, 2019
- Imprint: Mosby
- No. of pages: 696
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323749725
- LooseLeaf ISBN: 9780323750646
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323642088
- eBook ISBN: 9780323674591
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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