Library Catalog
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.
Call Number
RT 41 .C564 2023 C.1
Edition
9th ed.
Publication
St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, 2023
Description
xiii, 530 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Nursing - United States Nursing Care Nurse's Role Nursing United States
Contents and Notes
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.
Authors and Contributors
Cherry, Barbara, (Nurse) Jacob, Susan R.
System ID
9e13c3d62d
ISBN
9780323776875
Authors and Contributors
Cherry, Barbara, (Nurse)
Jacob, Susan R.
Forms and Genres
Non-Fiction
Book
Fiction
Book
Non-Fiction
Subjects
Nursing
United States
Nursing Care
Nurse's Role