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 Transition and Trends
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Sixth Edition
By
JoAnn Zerwekh, EdD, RN, FNP, APRN, BC, Executive Director, Nursing Education Consultants, Ingram, TX; Nursing Faculty - Online Campus, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
Jo Carol Claborn, MS, RN, CNS, Executive Director, Nursing Education Consultants, Ingram, TX
Description
This bestselling issues & trends textbook gives you a broad understanding of the problems and opportunities you will face as you make
the transition from student to practicing nurse. While most of your studies have focused on learning how to care for the patient, this
text teaches you the practical skills essential to managing the business side of your nursing career, including tips on resume writing
and interviewing techniques, how to prepare for the NCLEX-RN exam, and effective ways to communicate and handle conflict in the work
place. This new edition includes two new chapters on Emergency Preparedness and Building Nursing Management Skills plus numerous chapters
that have been updated with the most relevant topics necessary for today?s nursing student.
Contents
Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition
1. Role Transitions
2. Personal Management: Time and Self-care Strategies
3. Mentorship and Preceptorship
Unit II: Career Development
4. Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing
5. NCLEX-RN 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
NEW!
12. Effective Communication & 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 & Spiritual Awareness
22. Quality Patient Care
23. Nursing Informatics
24. Using Nursing Research in Practice
25. Workplace Issues
26. Emergency Preparedness
NEW!
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 640 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-5672-0
ISBN-10: 1-4160-5672-6
Imprint: SAUNDERS
029/241
Last update: 27 Aug 2008
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