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Nursing Today

Transition and Trends

  • 10th Edition - November 19, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau
  • Language: English

Ensure you thoroughly understand the most important issues you’ll face when entering practice! Loved for its humor, readability, and inviting cartoons, Nursing Today: Trans… Read more

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Ensure 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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Nursing students in capstone issues & trends courses in both ADN & BSN level programs

Table of contents

Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition

1. Role Transitions

2. Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies

3. Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs

4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing

5. NCLEX-RN Exam and the New Graduate

Unit II: Nursing: A Developing Profession

6. Historical Perspectives

7. Nursing Education

8. Nursing Theories

9. Professional Image of Nursing

Unit III: Nursing Management

10. Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership

11. Building Nursing Management Skills

12. Effective Communication, Team Building, and Interprofessional Practice

13. Conflict Management

14. 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 System

17. Political Action in Nursing

18. Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Nontraditional Approaches

19. Ethical Issues

20. Legal Issues

Unit V: Contemporary Nursing Practice

21. Cultural & Spiritual Awareness

22. Quality Patient Care

23. Nursing Informatics

24. Using Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research

25. Workplace Issues

26. Emergency Preparedness

Product details

  • Edition: 10
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 27, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

JZ

JoAnn Zerwekh

Affiliations and expertise
President/CEO, Nursing Education Consultants, Inc., Chandler, Arizona, USA

AG

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