Reinventing Your Nursing Career / Edition 1

by Michael Newell RN, MSN, CCM, Newell Stephen, Mario Pinardo

Overview

The health care revolution now underway is anticipated to displace nea rly a million hospital-based nurses over the next several years. While opportunities in nursing exist outside hospital walls, most nurses ar e not trained or equipped to cope with such a derailment, Reinventing Your Career is a self-study manual on rethinking one's career, setting personal goals, and planning and implementing a strategy to find a pl ace in the future of health care. The book begins with a straightforwa rd, tell-it-like-it-is assessment of the current scene for nurses, the n flows into how nurses need to identify their value concretely in ter ms of skill sets and explains how to develop them. Chapters on empower ment and empowering techniques, goal-setting exercises, personal actio n planners, and networking techniques round out the book. Plus, you ca n earn CE credits!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834210073
Publisher:	Aspen
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Newell, Michael, RN, MSN, CCM; Pinardo, Mario (Achievement Dynamics Institute, Inc)

Table of Contents

Contents: Future Directions of the Health Care System * Quality of Care and the Nurse’ s Role * Value Added in Nursing Practice * Identifying the Skill Set for Success * Case Management: A Practice Model for the Future Personal Transitions * The Process of Personal Empowerment * The Search for Answers * The Force of Crystallized Thinking * The Personal Empowerment Process * Steps to Personal Empowerment * Time Management * Finding a Life Partner: Types of Personality Evaluations * Networking * Glossary of Terms and Definitions

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jane W. Swanson, MS, RN, CNAA (University of Texas Medical Branch )
Description: This handbook provides the reader with an overview of the dynamics of a changing healthcare system and the impact on nursing as influenced by managed care. The authors use diagrams, checklists, charts, and helpful hints to emphasize learning points for self-assessment of each reader's ability to adapt to change.
Purpose: The book provides an overview of the process involved in healthcare change and transition and provides guidelines and self-assessment to validate readers' perceptions and attitudes of transferable skills.
Audience: Nursing undergraduates, practicing nurses, or other allied health care professionals who seek to start new practices or move to a new practice setting, including but not limited to managed care, are the audience.
Features: The strength of the book is the workbook format for developing self-assessment through multiple checklists and open-ended questions of the reader's current and transferable skills. A useful feature is the book's wide margins on each page for note-taking.
Assessment: This is a basic overview of managed care from an historical perspective and the effects on healthcare and nursing changes. It is a comprehensive, easy to use, and straightforward self-assessment guide. The style is concise and well organized. A more extensive and current list of references would address knowledge requirements at all levels.

Doody's Review Service

2 Stars from Doody

This handbook provides the reader with an overview of the dynamics of a changing healthcare system and the impact on nursing as influenced by managed care. The authors use diagrams, checklists, charts, and helpful hints to emphasize learning points for self-assessment of each reader's ability to adapt to change. The book provides an overview of the process involved in healthcare change and transition and provides guidelines and self-assessment to validate readers' perceptions and attitudes of transferable skills. Nursing undergraduates, practicing nurses, or other allied health care professionals who seek to start new practices or move to a new practice setting, including but not limited to managed care, are the audience. The strength of the book is the workbook format for developing self-assessment through multiple checklists and open-ended questions of the reader's current and transferable skills. A useful feature is the book's wide margins on each page for note-taking. This is a basic overview of managed care from an historical perspective and the effects on healthcare and nursing changes. It is a comprehensive, easy to use, and straightforward self-assessment guide. The style is concise and well organized. A more extensive and current list of references would address knowledge requirements at all levels.

Jane W. Swanson