A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications,
and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th
Edition Revised Reprint 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.
Completely revised chapter on Mentorship, Preceptorship, and Nurse
Residency Programs, complete with new relevant websites, online
resources, and integrated recommendations from the 2010 Institute of
Medicine.
Completely revised chapter on NCLEX-RN Examination and the New Graduate, complete with the 2013 NCLEX-RN Detailed Test Plan.
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.