Nursing Today - Revised Reprint - E-Book: Nursing Today - Revised Reprint - E-Book

by RN Zerwekh EdD, RN Garneau PhD

Overview

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. - Thorough coverage prepares you for a professional nursing career by including all of the most important issues faced by the new nurse. - An engaging presentation features lively cartoons, chapter objectives, bibliographies, and colorful summary boxes. - Critical Thinking boxes are located in every chapter, with relevant questions and exercises to apply what you have learned to clinical practice. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes focus on the research evidence that supports clinical practice. - Real-life scenarios in each chapter illustrate and personalize the chapter topics. - 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 Mentoring and Preceptorship. - A companion Evolve website includes Case Studies for every chapter, test-taking strategies, a sample NCLEX® test tutorial, a sample NCLEX® exam, appendices, and resume builder templates for creating professional resumes and cover letters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323294249
Publisher:	Saunders, W. B. Company
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	640
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition1.  Role Transitions2.  Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies3.  Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency ProgramsUnit II: Career Development4.  Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing5.  NCLEX-RN® Examination and the New GraduateUnit III: Nursing: A Developing Profession6.  Historical Perspectives: Influences of the Past7.  Nursing Education8.  Nursing Theory9.  Image of Nursing: Influences of the PresentUnit IV: Nursing Management10.  Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership11.  Building Nursing Management Skills 12.  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 Nontraditional 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