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Title Contemporary nursing : issues, trends, & management / [edited by] Barbara Cherry, Susan R. Jacob.

Imprint St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, 2023.

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Location Call No. Status
 Male Library  RT41.C564 2023    Available
 Female Library  RT41.C564 2023    Available
Edition Ninth edition.
Description xiii, 530 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note "Evolve\ Student resources on Evolve access code inside"- cover.
Summary With an understanding of healthcare issues, you can improve patient care and advance the nursing profession! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 9th Edition ensures that you are prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today's nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and evidence-based practice, social and ethical issues, the rising cost of health care, quality improvement and patient safety, palliative care, effective decision-making, collective bargaining and unions, managing time, and career opportunities. Written by noted nursing educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this text not only prepares you for the NCLEX-RN® examination, but for effective leadership and management in the workplace
Contents Unit 1: The development of nursing -- The evolution of professional nursing -- The contemporary image of professional nursing -- The influence of contemporary trends and issues on nursing education -- Nursing licensure and certification -- Theories of nursing practice -- Nursing research and evidence-based practice -- Unit 2: Current issues in health care -- Paying for health care in America : rising costs and challenges -- Legal issues in nursing and health care -- Ethical and bioethical issues in nursing and health care -- Cultural competency and social issues in nursing and health care -- Complementary and alternative healing -- Palliative care -- Workforce advocacy for a professional nursing practice environment -- Collective bargaining and unions in today's workplace -- Information technology in the clinical setting -- Emergency preparedness and response for today's world -- Unit 3: Leadership and management in nursing -- Nursing leadership and management -- Budgeting basics for nurses -- Effective communication and conflict resolution -- Effective delegation and supervision -- Staffing and nursing care delivery models -- Quality improvement and patient safety -- Health policy and politics : get involved! -- Clinical judgment -- Unit 4: Career management -- Making the transition from student to professional nurse -- Managing time : the path to high self-performance -- Job search : finding your match -- The NCLEX-RN® examination.
Subject Nursing -- United States
United States (DNLM)D014481
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Cherry, Barbara (Nurse), editor
Jacob, Susan R., editor
ISBN 9780323776875 (paperback)
0323776876 (paperback)