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