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Zerwekh, JoAnn Graham

Nursing today : transition and trends / Joan Zerwekh, Jo Carol Claborn - 5th edition - St. Louis Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2006 - xxix, 653 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

Contents

Unit I: Professional Growth and Transition
1. Transitions
2. Self-care Strategies

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

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

Unit IV: Nursing Management
10. Challenges of Nursing Management
11. Effective Communication & Team Building
12. Conflict Management
13. Time 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
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. Work Place Issues



ISBN: 1416023135 9781416023135

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nursing --Vocational Guidance
Nursing --Social Aspect

Dewey Class. No.: WY 16 Z589n 2006