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Nursing Today - JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau

Nursing Today

Transition and Trends
Buch | Softcover
664 Seiten
2014 | 8th Revised edition
Saunders (Verlag)
978-1-4557-3203-6 (ISBN)
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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.



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, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs.
Coverage of QSEN and patient safety includes Quality and Safety Education for Nurses, National Patient Safety Foundation, and Institute of Medicine competencies related to patient safety, and addresses communication among health care providers, quality improvement, and guidelines from The Joint Commission.
Coverage of evidence-based practice includes management protocols and interventions used as the basis for clinical outcomes.
Coverage of nursing informatics helps you use technology, access information, and evaluate content to provide quality patient care - and includes a discussion of the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Coverage of health care reform includes the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the new Patient Bill of Rights�as they apply to health care delivery and costs.
Student resources on an Evolve companion website include case studies for every chapter, NCLEX-RN� review questions, NCLEX-RN exam-style questions, memory notecards, and resume templates for creating professional resumes and cover letters.�
Thorough coverage includes all of the most important issues faced by the new nurse, preparing you to succeed in a professional nursing career.
Critical Thinking boxes offer questions and exercises asking you to apply what you have learned to clinical practice.
An engaging approach features lively cartoons, chapter objectives, bibliographies, and colorful summary boxes.



NEW Prepare for the NCLEX with updated content in the NCLEX-RN Examination and the New Graduate chapter.
NEW! Highlighted QSEN competencies relate to effective communication, team building, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and quality assurance.
NEW section on community health nursing helps you find employment in this growing area.
UPDATED content on externships discusses preceptorships as a capstone course versus a formalized preceptorship or 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.
UPDATED coverage of 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.
NEW Relevant Websites and Online Resources boxes at the end of chapters provide links for further research and study.
NEW Research for Best Practice boxes focus on the research evidence that supports clinical practice.�

JoAnn Zerwekh, EdD, RN is a nurse educator with extensive experience in nursing education. She has been presenting NCLEX(R) review courses for graduate nurses for over 30 years and is the author of multiple NCLEX(R) review books.

Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition 1.�Role Transitions 2.�Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies 3.�Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs

Unit II: Career Development 4.�Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing 5.�NCLEX-RN Examination and the New Graduate

Unit III: Nursing: A Developing Profession 6.�Historical Perspectives: Influences of the Past 7.�Nursing Education 8.�Nursing Theories 9.�Image of Nursing: Influences of the Present

Unit IV: Nursing Management 10.�Challenges of Nursing Management 11.�Building Nursing Management Skills 12.�Effective Communication and Team Building 13.�Conflict Management 14.�Delegation in the Clinical Setting

Unit V: 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 Non-Traditional Approaches 19.�Ethical Issues 20.�Legal Issues

Unit VI: Contemporary Nursing Practice 21.�Cultural and Spiritual Awareness 22.�Quality Client Care 23.�Nursing Informatics 24.�Using Nursing Research in Practice 25.�Workplace Issues 26.�Emergency Preparedness

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.4.2014
Zusatzinfo Approx. 270 illustrations (270 in full color)
Verlagsort Philadelphia
Sprache englisch
Maße 191 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-4557-3203-6 / 1455732036
ISBN-13 978-1-4557-3203-6 / 9781455732036
Zustand Neuware
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