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 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. INDICE: Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition1. Role Transitions2. Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies3. Mentorship and PreceptorshipUnit II: Career Development4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing5. NCLEX-RN and the New GraduateUnit III: Nursing: A Developing Profession6. Historical Perspectives: Influences of the Past7. Nursing Education8. Nursing Theories9. Image of Nursing: Influences of the PresentUnit IV: Nursing Management10. Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership11. Building Nursing Management Skills12. Effective Communication and Team Building13. Conflict Management14. Delegation in the Clinical SettingUnit V: Current Issues in Health Care 15. The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery16. Economics of the Health Care Delivery System17. Political Action in Nursing18. Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Non-Traditional Approaches19. Ethical Issues20. Legal IssuesUnit VI: Contemporary Nursing Practice21. Cultural and Spiritual Awareness22. Quality Patient Care23. Nursing Informatics24. Using Nursing Research in Practice25. Workplace Issues26. Emergency Preparedness
- ISBN: 978-1-4377-2567-4
- Editorial: Saunders
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 640
- Fecha Publicación: 26/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés