A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition Revised Reprint 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.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. Cover 3. Copyright - p. Cover 4. Contributors - p. v 5. Reviewers - p. vii 6. Preface - p. xi 7. Acknowledgments - p. xii 8. Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition - p. xii 9. Chapter 1. Role Transitions - p. xii 10. Chapter 2. Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies - p. 21 11. Chapter 3. Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs - p. 46 12. Unit II: Career Development - p. 63 13. Chapter 4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing - p. 63 14. Chapter 5. NCLEX-RN® Examination and the New Graduate - p. 90 15. Unit III: Nursing: A Developing Profession - p. 118 16. Chapter 6. Historical Perspectives: Influences on the Present - p. 118 17. Chapter 7. Nursing Education - p. 138 18. Chapter 8. Nursing Theory - p. 158 19. Chapter 9. Image of Nursing: Influences of the Present - p. 176 20. Unit IV: Nursing Management - p. 193 21. Chapter 10. Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership - p. 193 22. Chapter 11. Building Nursing Management Skills - p. 221 23. Chapter 12. Effective Communication and Team Building - p. 239 24. Chapter 13. Conflict Management - p. 269 25. Chapter 14. Delegation in the Clinical Setting - p. 287 26. Unit V: Current Issues in Health Care - p. 308 27. Chapter 15. The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery - p. 308 28. Chapter 16. Economics of the Health Care Delivery System - p. 334 29. Chapter 17. Political Action in Nursing - p. 354 30. Chapter 18. Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Nontraditional Approaches - p. 373 31. Chapter 19. Ethical Issues - p. 394 32. Chapter 20. Legal Issues - p. 421 33. Unit VI: Contemporary Nursing Practice - p. 465 34. Chapter 21. Cultural and Spiritual Awareness - p. 465 35. Chapter 22. Quality Patient Care - p. 479 36. Chapter 23. Nursing Informatics - p. 510 37. Chapter 24. Using Nursing Research in Practice - p. 536 38. Chapter 25. Workplace Issues - p. 549 39. Chapter 26. Emergency Preparedness - p. 569 40. Appendix A. State Boards of Nursing - p. 1 41. Appendix B. National Nursing Organizations - p. 1 42. Appendix C. American Nurses Association Constituent Member Associations - p. 1 43. Appendix D. Canadian Nursing Associations - p. 1 44. Index - p. 591
A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition Revised Reprint 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.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. Cover 3. Copyright - p. Cover 4. Contributors - p. v 5. Reviewers - p. vii 6. Preface - p. xi 7. Acknowledgments - p. xii 8. Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition - p. xii 9. Chapter 1. Role Transitions - p. xii 10. Chapter 2. Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies - p. 21 11. Chapter 3. Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs - p. 46 12. Unit II: Career Development - p. 63 13. Chapter 4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing - p. 63 14. Chapter 5. NCLEX-RN® Examination and the New Graduate - p. 90 15. Unit III: Nursing: A Developing Profession - p. 118 16. Chapter 6. Historical Perspectives: Influences on the Present - p. 118 17. Chapter 7. Nursing Education - p. 138 18. Chapter 8. Nursing Theory - p. 158 19. Chapter 9. Image of Nursing: Influences of the Present - p. 176 20. Unit IV: Nursing Management - p. 193 21. Chapter 10. Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership - p. 193 22. Chapter 11. Building Nursing Management Skills - p. 221 23. Chapter 12. Effective Communication and Team Building - p. 239 24. Chapter 13. Conflict Management - p. 269 25. Chapter 14. Delegation in the Clinical Setting - p. 287 26. Unit V: Current Issues in Health Care - p. 308 27. Chapter 15. The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery - p. 308 28. Chapter 16. Economics of the Health Care Delivery System - p. 334 29. Chapter 17. Political Action in Nursing - p. 354 30. Chapter 18. Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Nontraditional Approaches - p. 373 31. Chapter 19. Ethical Issues - p. 394 32. Chapter 20. Legal Issues - p. 421 33. Unit VI: Contemporary Nursing Practice - p. 465 34. Chapter 21. Cultural and Spiritual Awareness - p. 465 35. Chapter 22. Quality Patient Care - p. 479 36. Chapter 23. Nursing Informatics - p. 510 37. Chapter 24. Using Nursing Research in Practice - p. 536 38. Chapter 25. Workplace Issues - p. 549 39. Chapter 26. Emergency Preparedness - p. 569 40. Appendix A. State Boards of Nursing - p. 1 41. Appendix B. National Nursing Organizations - p. 1 42. Appendix C. American Nurses Association Constituent Member Associations - p. 1 43. Appendix D. Canadian Nursing Associations - p. 1 44. Index - p. 591
