The health care revolution now underway is anticipated to displace nea rly a million hospital-based nurses over the next several years. While opportunities in nursing exist outside hospital walls, most nurses ar e not trained or equipped to cope with such a derailment, Reinventing Your Career is a self-study manual on rethinking one's career, setting personal goals, and planning and implementing a strategy to find a pl ace in the future of health care. The book begins with a straightforwa rd, tell-it-like-it-is assessment of the current scene for nurses, the n flows into how nurses need to identify their value concretely in ter ms of skill sets and explains how to develop them. Chapters on empower ment and empowering techniques, goal-setting exercises, personal actio n planners, and networking techniques round out the book. Plus, you ca n earn CE credits!