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 (R) examination, but for effective
leadership and management in the workplace. Vignettes at the
beginning of each chapter personalize nursing practice and history,
and help you understand your place in the profession. Full-color
illustrations and design demonstrate concepts and make the text
visually appealing. Case studies help you apply theory to clinical
practice. Colorful, humorous cartoons depict the themes in each
chapter. Key terms, learning outcomes, and chapter overviews begin
each chapter, helping you organize and focus your study, and a
summary at the end of each chapter reinforces the key points to
remember. Professional/Ethical Issue in every chapter tests your
ability to think critically and apply concepts to a real-life
dilemma. Unit 3: Leadership and Management in Nursing guides you
through skills such as budgeting, communication and conflict
resolution, staffing, health policy and politics, and more. Unit 4:
Career Management describes how to make the transition from student
to professional, including time management, career opportunities,
and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN (R) examination. NEW!
Information on COVID-19 covers preparedness for a pandemic
response, legal issues and ethical dilemmas of COVID-19, the
nursing shortage, access to personal protective equipment, and the
growth of telehealth/telemedicine care. NEW! Clinical Judgment
chapter emphasizes the development of clinical reasoning skills.
NEW! Additional coverage in Theories of Nursing Practice chapter
includes the application of theories in nursing practice, Watson's
theory of caring, and Swanson's middle range theory. NEW! Updated
coverage of delegation and supervision includes the most current
guidelines from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
NEW! Updates to contemporary trends and issues include AACN
essentials, associate degree-BSN, nursing education in other
countries, online programs, distance education, and more. NEW!
Updates in Paying for Health Care in America chapter cover current
payment models, the social determinants of health, and healthcare
access. NEW! Additional information on CBD oil and the legalization
of marijuana is included.
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