Nursing Today

Transition and Trends

10th Edition - November 19, 2019
Authors: JoAnn Zerwekh, Ashley Zerwekh Garneau
Language: English
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Ensure you thoroughly understand the most important issues you’ll face when entering practice! Loved for its humor, readability, and inviting cartoons, Nursing Today: Transitions and Trends, 10th Edition helps you to prepare for the NCLEX-RN® — while giving you valuable information to succeed throughout your career. It reflects current issues and trending topics that nurses will face, ensuring that you not only graduate with patient care skills, but also with career development skills such as resume writing, finding a job, and effective interviewing. The 10th Edition features major content updates on Workplace Issues, Nursing Informatics, Cultural and Spiritual Awareness and Ethical Issues, and evidence-based practice boxes throughout to help you focus on the research evidence that supports clinical practice. Additionally, it includes test-taking tips for the NCLEX-RN® Examination and updated Evolve Resources for students with new review questions and case studies.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
Reviewers
Preface
Acknowledgments
Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition
1: Role Transitions
Transitions
Reality shock
Role transformation
Conclusion
Rules of the road
2: Personal Management: Time and Self-Care Strategies
Managing your time
Managing tasks
Managing others
Managing your goals
Self-care strategies
Conclusion
3: Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse Residency Programs
Historical background
What mentoring is and is not
What is a dedicated education unit?
What is a nurse residency program?
Conclusion
4: Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing
What is happening in the job market?
Self-assessment
Researching prospective employers
How do i go about researching prospective employers?
What do i need to know to assess the organization?
Portfolios
Traditional and employer-focused resumes
The interview process
Critical first 5 minutes!
Phases of the interview
How do i handle unexpected questions or situations?
Job offers and possible rejection
Conclusion
5: NCLEX-RN® Exam and the New Graduate
The NCLEX-RN® exam
Preparing for the NCLEX-RN® exam
Conclusion
Unit II: Nursing: A Developing Profession
6: Historical Perspectives: Influences on the Present
Nursing history: people and places
American nursing: critical factors
History of nursing education
The nurse’s role: the struggle for definitions
Conclusion
7: Nursing Education
Path of diploma education
Path of associate degree education
Path of baccalaureate education
Other types of nursing education
Nontraditional paths for nursing education
Graduate education
Credentialing: licensure and certification
Nursing education: future trends
Conclusion
8: Nursing Theories
Nursing theory
Who are the nursing theorists?
Future of nursing theory
Conclusion
9: Professional Image of Nursing
Professional image of nursing
Nursing organizations
Conclusion
Unit III: Nursing Management
10: Challenges of Nursing Management and Leadership
Management versus leadership
The twenty-first century: a different age for management and for leadership
Power and authority in nursing management
Management problem solving
The challenge of change
Conclusion
11: Building Nursing Management Skills
Communication and patient safety
Communicating when it is critical—what do you need to do?
Managing time in the clinical setting
Managing others
Conclusion
12: Effective Communication, Team Building, and Interprofessional Practice
Communication in the workplace
What does my image communicate to others?
Components of effective communication
Group communication
Team building and interprofessional practice
Assertive styles of communication
Conclusion
13: Conflict Management
Conflict
Conflict resolution
Dealing with difficult people
Sexual harassment in the workplace
Conclusion
14: Delegation in the Clinical Setting
What does delegation mean?
Who is accountable here?
The right task
What can i delegate or assign?
The right circumstances
The right person
The right direction and communication
The right supervision and evaluation
Conclusion
Unit IV: Current Issues in Health Care
15: The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery
What are some important challenges currently facing health care?
Affordable care act
Strategies to control costs
Value-based care, pay for performance, and accountable care organzations
Case management
Disease management
Evidence-based practice
Shortage of nurses
The impact of the 2010 institute for medicine “future of nursing” report
Quality of care and patient safety
The effects of various patterns of nursing care delivery
Nurse staffing
Conclusion
16: Economics of the Health Care Delivery System
What are the trends affecting the rising costs of health care?
What is the effect of the changing economic environment on clinical practice?
How is the us health care system financed?
Introduction to Economics
Budgets
Conclusion
17: Political Action in Nursing
What exactly is politics?
What is power, and where does it come from?
Networking among colleagues
Building coalitions
Controversial political issues affecting nursing
Conclusion
18: Collective Bargaining: Traditional (Union) and Nontraditional Approaches
When did the issues leading to collective bargaining begin?
The evolution of collective bargaining in nursing
Who represents nurses for collective bargaining?
The debate over collective bargaining
Future trends
Conclusion
19: Ethical Issues
Understanding ethics
Conclusion
20: Legal Issues
Sources of law
Court actions based on legal principles
Nursing Licensure
Negligence
Who might have liability (responsibility) in a claim?
What defenses might be available in malpractice claims?
Common categories of negligence
Related Legal Concepts
Criminal actions
Risk management and quality improvement
Legal issues affecting nursing
Conclusion
Unit V: Contemporary Nursing Practice
21: Cultural and Spiritual Awareness
Culture and spirituality
Cultural and spiritual assessment
Conclusion
22: Quality Patient Care
Standards of high-quality health care management
History and evolution of quality in health care
What are core measures?
What is hospital consumer assessment of health care providers and systems?
What is “Hospital compare”?
Just what is the joint commission?
Monitoring the quality of health care
What are some other agencies influencing patient safety?
Quality improvement methods
Tools and processes for continuous quality improvement
How do we use DMAIC
Health care provider credentialing for quality improvement
Health literacy
Conclusion
23: Nursing Informatics
Nursing informatics
Professional practice, trends, and issues
Electronic health records
Trends
The next generation of health care delivery
Patients and the internet
Data access at the point of care
Nursing informatics and you
Conclusion
24: Using Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research
What is evidence-based practice?
The need for nursing practice based on research
What is nursing research utilization?
Research utilization compared with nursing research and the conduct of research
Defining your practice context
The national institute of nursing research
The agency for healthcare research and quality
Conclusion
25: Workplace Issues
Questions to ask when starting a new position
Ergonomic hazards for health care workers
Workplace violence: a growing concern in health care
Other workplace issues
Conclusion
26: Emergency Preparedness
What is public health preparedness?
Clinical preparedness
What is triage?
Public health preparedness and administrative efforts
Community health nurse issues and public health preparedness
What do i need to know about community preparedness issues?
What do i need to know about disaster mental health?
Conclusion
Index

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JoAnn Zerwekh

Ashley Zerwekh Garneau