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Seventh edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 608 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Unit 1: Professional Growth And Transition: -- 1: Role transitions: -- Transitions: -- What are transitions? -- What are important factors influencing transitions? -- Transitions in nursing -- Reality shock: -- What is reality shock? -- What are the phases of reality shock? -- Role transformation: -- When does the role transition to graduate nurse begin? -- How can I prepare myself for this transition process? -- 2: Personal management: time and self-care strategies: -- Managing your time: -- Balance is the key -- What are your biological rhythms, and how do you use them? -- What is meant by right- and left-brain dominance, and where is my brain? -- Which are you? -- How can I manage my physical environment? -- What about managing the telephone? -- What about all that e-mail? -- How can I manage my time? -- Managing tasks: -- How do I deal with procrastination? -- Consider the consequences -- Earlier, the better -- Managing others: -- What about delegation and time management? -- Managing your goals: -- Begin by listing -- Prioritize with the ABCD system -- Keep it going -- Self-care strategies: -- Is burnout inevitable for nurses? -- Empowerment and self-care -- 3: Mentorship and preceptorship: -- Historical background -- What mentoring is and is not: -- What is a preceptorship? -- How to find a mentor -- What are the characteristics of a successful mentor? -- What is a mentoring moment? -- When do we need mentors? -- What is the role of the mentee? -- What are the characteristics of a mentee? -- What are the types of mentoring relationships? -- Mentoring through reality shock -- What does the future hold? -- Unit 2: Career Development: -- 4: Employment considerations: opportunities, resumes, and interviewing: -- What is happening in the job market? -- Self-assessment: -- What are my clinical interests? -- What are my likes and dislikes? -- What are my personal needs and interests? -- What are my career goals? -- Researching prospective employers: -- What employment opportunities are available? -- What about advanced degrees in nursing? -- How do I go about researching prospective employers?: -- Employment considerations: How do you decide on an employer? -- What do I need to know to assess the organization?: -- How do you go about assessing an organization to find what you want? -- Resume writing: -- How do I write an effective resume? -- What information is necessary for a resume? -- What else should I submit with my resume? -- What are the methods for submitting resumes? -- Interview process: -- How do I plan my interview campaign? -- Strategies for interview success -- Critical first 5 minutes! -- Phases of the interview -- How do I handle unexpected questions or situations?: -- Now can we talk about benefits? -- Job offers and possible rejection: -- Postinterview process -- Follow-up communication -- What if I do not like my first position? -- What if it is time for me to change positions? -- 5: NCLEX-RN examination and the new graduate: -- NCLEX-RN examination: -- Who prepares it and why do we have to have it? -- How will the nurse licensure compact affect your license? -- What is the NCLEX-RN examination test plan? -- What does CAT mean? -- What kind of questions will be on the NCLEX examination? -- What are some of the other things I really need to know about the NCLEX examination? -- Preparing for the NCLEX-RN examination: -- Where and when should I start? -- How do I select an NCLEX examination review course? -- NCLEX-RN examination review books: which one is right for you? -- Test anxiety: What is the disease? How do you get rid of it? -- What kind of questions can I expect on the NCLEX examination? -- What difference do test-taking strategies make? -- What are strategies for answering multiple-choice questions? -- NCLEX examination testing tips -- Unit 3: Nursing: A Developing Profession: -- 6: Historical perspectives: influences on the present: -- Nursing history: people and places: -- Where did it all begin? -- Why deacons, widows, and virgins? -- How did knighthood contribute to nursing? -- What about revolts and nursing? -- Florence Nightingale: the legend and the lady -- American nursing: critical factors: -- What was it like in colonial times? -- What happened to nursing during the U S Civil War? -- How did the roles of nurses and wives compare during the Victorian era? -- Who were the reformers of the Victorian era? -- How did the symbols (lamp, cap, and pin) of the profession evolve? -- History of nursing education: -- What is the history of diploma nursing? -- What is the history of associate degree nursing? -- What is the history of baccalaureate nursing? -- What is the history of graduate nursing education? -- Nurse's role: the struggle for definitions: -- What do nurses do? -- What is the traditional role of a nurse? -- Did you know you would be a teacher? -- When did the nurse become an advocate? -- Why are nurses managers? -- Can nurses be colleagues? -- Where does this leave the role of colleague? -- What about experts? -- 7: Nursing education: -- Path of diploma education: -- What is the educational preparation of the diploma graduate? -- Path of associate degree education: -- What is the educational preparation of the associate degree graduate? -- Path of baccalaureate education: -- What is the educational preparation of the baccalaureate graduate? -- Other types of nursing education: -- What are the other available educational options? -- What is a BSN/MSN completion program? -- Nontraditional paths for nursing education: -- What about a master's degree as a path to becoming an RN? -- What about a doctoral path to becoming an RN? -- Graduate education: -- What about graduate school? -- Why would I want a master's degree? -- How do I know which master's degree program is right for me? -- Why would I want a doctoral degree? -- Why would I want a doctoral degree? -- How do I know which doctoral program is right for me? -- Credentialing: licensure and certification: -- What is credentialing? -- What are registration and licensure? -- What is certification? -- What is accreditation? -- Nursing education: future trends: -- Changing student profile -- Educational mobility -- Shortage of registered nurses -- Shortage of qualified nursing faculty -- Technology and education -- Changing health care settings -- Aging population -- 8: Nursing theory: -- Nursing theory: -- What is theory? -- What nursing theory is not -- Why theory? -- What is the history of nursing theory? -- Who are the nursing theorists?: -- Selected nursing theorists -- 9: Image of nursing: influences of the present: -- Professional image of nursing: -- What do we mean by the "image" of nursing? -- What constitutes a profession? -- Is nursing a profession? -- Nursing organizations: -- What should I know about professional organizations? -- What organizations are available to the recent graduate? -- |
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Unit 4: Nursing Management: -- 10: Challenges of nursing management and leadership: -- Management versus leadership: -- What is the difference between management and leadership? -- What are the characteristics and theories of management? -- What is meant by management style? -- What are the characteristics and theories of leadership? -- Twenty-first century: a different age for management and for leadership: -- Silent or veteran generation -- Baby boomers -- Generation X -- Generation Y -- Generation now -- Power and authority in nursing management: -- Do you know the difference between power and authority? -- What are the different types of power? -- Management problem solving: -- How are problem-solving strategies used in management? -- Evidence-based management protocols and interventions -- How do we relate problem solving and decision making? -- What effect does the leader have on the group? -- Challenge of change: -- Who initiates change and why? -- 11: Building nursing management skills: -- Communication and patient safety: -- How can I improve my verbal communication for patient safety? -- How can I improve my written communication for patient safety? -- Communicating when it is critical-what do you need to do?: -- Critical patient tests -- Critical hand-off communication -- Shift change-so much to say-so little time -- How can I deal with all the interruptions? -- What skills do I need to use the telephone effectively? -- Managing time in the clinical setting: -- Get organized before the shift report -- Prioritize your care -- Organize your work by patient -- Managing others: -- What about delegating and time management? -- Supervising and evaluating the care provided by others -- 12: Effective communication and team building: -- Communication in the workplace: -- How can I communicate effectively with my supervisor? -- How can I communicate effectively with other nursing personnel? -- What does my image communicate to others?: -- How do sex differences influence communication styles? -- What should I know about the "grapevine?" -- How can I deal with cultural diversity at work? -- Components of effective communication: -- How can I communicate effectively in writing? -- How can I learn to speak effectively? -- What listening skills do I need to develop? -- How can I use nonverbal communication effectively? -- How can I communicate effectively by using technology? -- Group communication: -- What is group process? -- How can you improve communications in group meetings? -- Team building: -- What is team building? -- When nurses work as a true team, everyone involved benefits! -- Assertive styles of communication: -- Why are nurses not more assertive? -- What are the benefits of assertiveness? -- What are my basic rights as a person and as a nurse? -- How can I begin to practice assertive communication? -- What are the components of assertive communication? -- When to use assertive communication -- 13: Conflict management: -- Conflict: -- What causes conflict? -- What are common areas of conflict between nurses and patients-and between nurses and patients' families? -- Conflict resolution: -- What are ways to resolve conflict? -- What are some basic guidelines for which technique to use? -- Dealing with difficult people: -- What are some techniques for handling difficult people? -- What is anger? -- What is the solution for dealing with anger? -- Sexual harassment in the workplace: -- What is sexual harassment? -- What can I do about it? -- 14: Delegation in the clinical setting: -- What does delegation mean?: -- Who is accountable here?: -- Right task: -- What can I delegate? -- Is there anything I cannot delegate? -- Right circumstances: -- How can I determine the strengths and weaknesses of team members? -- What are the causes of performance weaknesses? -- Right person: -- How can I use outcomes in delegating? -- Right direction and communication: -- How can I get the delegate to understand what I want? -- Right supervision and evaluation: -- How can I effectively give and receive feedback? -- Unit 5: Current Issues In Health Care: -- 15: Health care organization and patterns of nursing care delivery: -- What are some important challenges currently facing health care?: -- Cost of health care -- Managed care -- What has the impact of managed care been on costs? -- Strategies to control costs: -- Case management: -- What tools are used to support case management? -- Evidence-based practice: -- How do we know that critical pathways and disease-management protocols reflect the latest and best practice? -- Shortage of nurses: -- What can be done to recruit nurses to the profession? -- How can health care organizations retain nurses? -- Magnet hospitals -- Patient safety -- What are the effects of various patterns of nursing care delivery?: -- What is the total patient care or private duty model? -- What is functional nursing? -- What is team nursing? -- What is primary nursing? -- What is patient-focused care? -- What is the most effective model of nursing care? -- What is the impact of staffing patterns on the quality of care? -- How are nursing work assignments determined? -- What about scheduling patterns? -- What about the use of overtime? -- 16: Economics of the health care delivery system: -- What are the trends affecting the rising costs of health care?: -- Intrinsic factors -- Extrinsic factors -- What is the effect of the changing economic environment on clinical practice?: -- Introduction to economics: -- What are the choices about amount of spending? -- Affordable Care Act of 2010 -- What are the choices about services to provide? -- What are the choices about methods to produce health care? -- What are the choices about allocation? -- Budgets: -- What are the basic concepts of budgets? -- What are the types of budgets? -- Fiscal responsibility to the patient -- Fiscal responsibility to the employing institution -- Fiscal responsibility to the payer of care -- 17: Political action in nursing: -- What exactly is politics?: -- What other strategies would you suggest? -- What are the skills that make up a nurse's political savvy? -- What is power, and where does it come from?: -- Law 1: Power invariably fills any vacuum -- Law 2: Power is invariably personal -- Law 3: Power is based on a system of ideas and philosophy -- Law 4: Power is exercised through and depends on institutions -- Law 5: Power is invariably confronted with and acts in the presence of field of responsibility -- Another way to look at power and where to get it -- Networking among colleagues: -- Building coalitions: -- What about trade-offs, compromises, negotiations, and other tricks of the trade? -- How do I go about participating in the election process? -- What is a political action committee? -- After getting them elected, then what? -- Controversial political issues affecting nursing: -- Uniform core licensure requirements -- Nursing and collective bargaining -- Equal pay for work of comparable value or comparable worth? -- Legislative campaign for safe staffing -- 18: Collective bargaining: traditional (union) and nontraditional approaches: -- When did the issues leading to collective bargaining begin?: -- Evolution of collective bargaining in nursing: -- Who represents nurses for collective bargaining?: -- Traditional and nontraditional collective bargaining -- CAN and NNU: what are the common issues? -- Debate over collective bargaining: -- Collective bargaining: perspectives of the traditional approach -- How can nurses control their own practice? -- Collective bargaining: perspectives of the nontraditional approach -- Future trends: -- 19: Ethical issues: -- Understanding ethics: -- What are your values? -- Moral/ethical principles -- Controversial ethical issues confronting nursing -- 20: Legal issues: -- Sources of law: -- Where does "the law" come from? -- Court actions based on legal principles: -- Legal control over nursing practice: -- What are the legal aspects of licensure? -- What about the impaired nurse? -- Who knows about the disciplinary actions against nurses? -- Torts: -- Nursing malpractice: -- Legal commentary -- Basic elements of malpractice -- Applying "causation" to case study 3 -- Who might have liability (responsibility) in a claim? -- What defenses might be available in malpractice claims? -- What evidence can help me in a lawsuit? -- How can I avoid a malpractice claim? -- Intentional torts: -- Invasion of privacy and breaches of privilege and confidentiality -- Miscellaneous intentional torts and other civil rights claims involved with employment -- What is a defense to intentional torts? -- Criminal actions: -- What criminal acts pose a risk to the nurse? -- Risk management and quality improvement: -- How do I protect myself and my patient from all these risks? -- Malpractice insurance -- What about individual malpractice insurance? -- What is institutional coverage? -- What should I ask about institutional coverage? -- What happens when I go to court? -- Controversial legal issues affecting nursing: -- Health care costs and payment issues -- Health care delivery issues -- Issues about life-and-death decisions -- |
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Unit 6: Contemporary Nursing Practice: -- 21: Cultural and spiritual awareness: -- Culture and spirituality: -- What is meant by cultural competence? -- What practice issues are related to cultural competence? -- What is the meaning of spirituality? -- Cultural and spiritual assessment: -- What are cultural and spiritual beliefs about illness and curses? -- How do you assess spiritual need? -- 22: Quality patient care: -- Standards of quality health care management: -- What is root cause analysis? -- History and evolution of quality in health care: -- Who is Edward Deming? -- Who is Joseph M Juran? -- Who is Phillip Crosby? -- Just what is the Joint Commission? : -- What are patient safety goals? -- Monitoring quality of health care: -- What is quality improvement? -- How do we monitor quality? -- What is an indicator and a metric? -- What are core measures? -- What is performance improvement? -- What are the barriers to quality improvement? -- What are some other patient safety agencies?: -- Quality improvement methods -- Tools and processes for continuous quality improvement: -- What is Six Sigma? -- How do we use DMAIC?: -- Define phase -- Measure phase -- Analyze phase -- Improve phase -- Control phase -- Health care provider credentialing for quality improvement -- 23: Nursing informatics: -- Nursing informatics: -- What is nursing informatics? -- Experience and education -- Certification process -- Role of the IN/INS -- Professional practice, trends, and issues: -- What are regulatory and accreditation requirements? -- Ethics -- Models and theories -- Clinical information systems: -- What is a clinical information system (CIS) -- What is the electronic health record (EHR)? -- What is E-health? -- Trends: -- Using the Internet: the next generation of health care delivery: -- E-mail -- Data access at the point of care: -- Workstations on wheels -- Smartphones -- Tablet computers -- Evaluating Internet resources: -- What do I need to know to evaluate an Internet resource? -- Nursing informatics and clinical practice: -- Informatics competencies for the practicing nurse -- 24: Using nursing research in practice: -- Need for nursing practice based on research: -- What is nursing research utilization?: -- What are the steps for nursing research utilization? -- Research utilization: what is it not? -- Research utilization compared with nursing research and the conduct of research: -- How is the use of research in practice different from conducting research? -- What is the relationship between nursing theory and research utilization? -- Defining your practice context: -- What are the health, social, and cultural characteristics of the patient population being served? -- What are the health care delivery characteristics of your setting? -- What are the motivators and barriers for incorporating nursing research into your practice? -- What is evidence-based practice? -- National Institute of Nursing Research: -- What is its function? -- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality: -- What is its function? -- 25: Workplace issues: -- Questions to ask when starting a new position -- Ergonomic hazards for health care workers: -- Back injury -- Repetitive Motion Disorders (RMD) -- Workplace violence: a growing concern in health care: -- Horizontal violence (bullying) and other forms of workplace harassment -- Other workplace issues: -- Needlestick and sharps safety -- Dealing with staffing shortages -- Making a mistake-What do I do now? -- Floating-What do I do now? -- 26: Emergency preparedness: -- What is public health preparedness?: -- Clinical preparedness: -- What are biological agents? -- What are chemical agents? -- What are radiological/radioactive agents? -- What is a pandemic? -- What is disaster nursing? -- What is triage?: -- Public health preparedness and administrative efforts: -- Community health nurse issues and public health preparedness: -- Epidemiological aspects -- What is the strategic national stockpile? -- What is a CHEMPACK? -- What is ESAR-VHP? -- Medical reserve corps -- Disaster medical assistance teams -- What do I need to know about community preparedness issues?: -- What do I need to know about disaster mental health?: -- Individual and family preparedness issues -- The following appendixes can be found on the Evolve website: -- Appendix A: State boards of nursing -- Appendix B: National Nursing Organizations -- Appendix C: American Nurses Association Constituent Member Associations -- Appendix D: Canadian Nursing Associations. |
| Summary |
Synopsis: A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition helps you make a successful transition from student to practicing nurse. It covers the profession's leading issues and opportunities, ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills but with career development skills including resume writing, finding a job, and effective interviewing. Test-taking tips and strategies prepare you for the NCLEX-RN® exam, and discussions of communication and management issues prepare you to succeed in the workplace. In this edition, well-known educator JoAnn Zerwekh and coauthor Ashley Zerwekh Garneau provide the latest information on nursing issues and trends including health care reform, patient safety, collective bargaining, and emergency preparedness. Thorough coverage prepares you for a professional nursing career by including all of the most important issues faced by the new nurse. An engaging presentation features lively cartoons, chapter objectives, bibliographies, and colorful summary boxes. Critical Thinking boxes are located in every chapter, with relevant questions and exercises to apply what you have learned to clinical practice. Evidence-Based Practice boxes focus on the research evidence that supports clinical practice. Real-life scenarios in each chapter illustrate and personalize the chapter topics. An emphasis on making the transition into the workplace is included in chapters such as NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate, Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing, and Mentoring and Preceptorship. A companion Evolve website includes Case Studies for every chapter, test-taking strategies, a sample NCLEX test tutorial, a sample NCLEX exam, appendices, and resume builder templates for creating professional resumes and cover letters. Health care reform is covered in the Economics of the Health Care Delivery System chapter, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the new Patient Bill of Rights as they apply to health care delivery and cost. Updated Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery chapter covers the results of managed care and explains the "p4p" (pay for performance) payment system, eliminating payment for medical errors as urged by the Institute of Medicine, and the collaboration at all levels of care to prevent medical errors and improve quality of care. A chapter on collective bargaining and unions covers the creation in 2009 of the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses, the National Nurses United (NNU), and related issues. Updated Emergency Preparedness chapter covers The World Health Organization's (WHO) global pandemic influenza plan and its relation to public health and immunization. Coverage of QSEN and Patient Safety includes not only Quality and Safety Education for Nurses, but also the National Patient Safety Foundation and the Institute of Medicine competencies related to patient safety, as well as better communication among health care providers, quality improvement, and guidelines from The Joint Commission. Coverage of evidence-based practice includes management protocols and interventions used as the basis for clinical outcomes. |
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Nursing -- Vocational guidance.
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Nursing -- Social aspects.
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Nursing.
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Vocational Guidance.
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Zerwekh, JoAnn Graham.
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Garneau, Ashley Zerwekh.
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| ISBN |
9781437725674 paperback alkaline paper |
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1437725678 paperback alkaline paper |
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