One of the Most Widely Used Texts in Nursing Education!

This text is intended for use with associate degrees, and covers the material needed for the Introduction to Nursing Course. Attention is given to the changing role of nurses and the differences between the staff nurse and the nurse specialist.

Issues and Trends in Nursing synthesizes the scientific, technical, ethical, and organizational issues that are essential for nurses to understand in order to work in today’s ever-evolving healthcare arena. Arranged into four major units to provide a comprehensive examination of issues impacting the nursing metaparadigm—person, environment, health, and nursing, this relevant, timely text covers issues pertinent to everyday practice, including safety, confidentiality, technology, regulatory compliance, and global health.

Get the big picture on professional nursing issues and prepare for leadership and management! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 10th 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, patient safety and quality care, clinical judgment, delegation and supervision, communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, and working within a multicultural and multigenerational environment. Written by noted nursing educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this text not only prepares you for success on the NCLEX-RN® examination but for a role as an effective nursing manager and leader.

Contemporary Nursing, Issues, Trends, & Management, 6th Edition prepares you for the rapidly evolving world of health care with a comprehensive yet focused survey of nursing topics affecting practice, as well as the issues facing today's nurse managers and tomorrow's nurse leaders. Newly revised and updated, Barbara Cherry and Susan Jacob provide the most practical and balanced preparation for the issues, trends, and management topics you will encounter in practice. Content mapped to the AACN BSN Essentials emphasizes intraprofessional teams, cultural humility and sensitivity, cultural competence, and the CLAS standards.Vignettes at the beginning of each chapter put nursing history and practice into perspective, followed byQuestions to Consider While Reading This Chapter that help you reflect on theVignettes and prepare you for the material to follow. Case studies throughout the text challenge you to apply key concepts to real-world practice.Coverage of leadership and management in nursing prepares you to function effectively in management roles.Career management strategies include advice for making the transition from student to practitioner and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN ® examination.Key terms, learning outcomes, and chapter overviews help you study more efficiently and effectively.Helpful websites and online resources provide ways to further explore each chapter topic. Coverage of nursing education brings you up to date on a wide range of topics, from the emergence of interactive learning strategies and e-learning technology, to the effects of the nursing shortage and our aging nursing population.Updated information on paying for health care in America, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and statistics on health insurance coverage in the United Stateshelps you understand the history and reasons behind healthcare financing reform, the costs of healthcare, and current types of managed care plans.A new section on health information technology familiarizes you with how Electronic Health Records (EHRs), point-of-care technologies, and consumer health information could potentially impact the future of health care.Updated chapter on health policy and politics explores the effect of governmental roles, structures, and actions on health care policy and how you can get involved in political advocacy at the local, state, and federal level to help shape the U.S. health care system.The latest emergency preparedness and response guidelines from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) prepare you for responding to natural and man-made disasters.

Take an evidence-based approach that prepares nurses to be leaders at all levels. Learn the skills you need to lead and succeed in the dynamic health care environments in which you will practice. From leadership and management theories through their application, you’ll develop the core competences needed to deliver and manage the highest quality care for your patients. You’ll also be prepared for the initiatives that are transforming the delivery and cost-effectiveness of health care today. New, Updated & Expanded! Content reflecting the evolution of nursing leadership and management New! Tables that highlight how the chapter content correlates with the core competencies of BSN Essentials, ANA Code of Ethics, and Standards of Practice or Specialty Standards of Practice New!10 NCLEX®-style questions at the end of each chapter with rationales in an appendix New & Expanded! Coverage of reporting incidents, clinical reasoning and judgment, communication and judgment hierarchy, quality improvement tools, leveraging diversity, security plans and disaster management, health care and hospital- and unit-based finances, and professional socialization Features an evidence-based and best practices approach to develop the skills needed to be effective nurse leaders and managers—from managing patient care to managing staff and organizations. Encompasses new quality care initiatives, including those from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education, and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Report which form the foundation of the content. Discusses the essentials of critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving, including concepts such as SWOT, 2x2 matrix, root-cause analysis, plan-do-study-act, and failure mode and effects analysis. Demonstrates how to manage conflict, manage teams and personnel, utilize change theory, and budget Uses a consistent pedagogy in each chapter, including key terms, learning outcomes, learning activities, a case study, coverage of evidence, research and best practices, and a chapter summary.

Nursing Beyond the Bedside: 60 Non-Hospital Careers in Nursing introduces nurses and nursing students to career opportunities outside of the hospital setting—in areas where RN job growth is projected to remain strong as patients live longer but with more chronic illnesses. The goal of this book is to provide practicing nurses and those pursuing a career in nursing a thorough understanding of the many career options available outside the hospital. Author Susan Lowey describes how these non-hospital careers allows nurses to take on varied roles and responsibilities to deliver comprehensive healthcare to their patients. Each of the 60 non-hospital nursing careers includes a basic job description, the educational preparation or skills required, typical work hours and settings, availability of specialty certifications associated with the job, and links to professional organizations and online resources for that specialty.

Preceded by Issues and trends in nursing: essential knowledge for today and tomorrow / edited by Gayle Roux, Judith A. Halstead. 2009.

“[This book] continues to be the first line resource toward understanding rural health nursing and the interface with cultural, health, health beliefs, and health care in rural populations...Highlights the realities of rural nursing from bedside to advanced practice... This book and the chapters within are some of the most often cited in the rural nursing literature.” Pamela Stewart Fahs, RN, PhD Associate Dean Professor & Dr. G. Clifford and Florence B. Decker Chair in Rural Nursing Decker School of Nursing; Binghamton University Editor In Chief Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care The newly revised fifth edition of this authoritative classic continues to be the only text to focus specifically on rural nursing concepts, theory, research, practice, education, public health, and health care delivery from a national and international perspective. Updated with 22 new chapters, these additions expand upon the rural nursing theory base and research. Content delves into the life of rural nurses, addressing their unique day-to-day challenges of living without anonymity, often acting as the sole health care provider, and establishing self-reliance as a nurse generalist. New chapters provide information on unique populations, such as veterans and Native Americans, as well as specific types of care, such as palliative nursing, bereavement support, substance abuse treatment, and much more. Free, searchable, digital access to the entire contents of the book and PowerPoint slides accompany the text. New to the Fifth Edition: How to develop a research program in a rural area Strategies to advance research The lived experienced of rural nurses Chronic illness self-management APRNs in rural nursing A rural knowledge scale to use with students Advancing rural health care through technology Interprofessional education Key Features: Addresses critical issues in nursing practice, education, and research in sparsely populated areas Written by esteemed contributors in the U.S. and Canada Expands understanding of rural person and place characteristics Identifies challenges and highlights opportunities for innovative practice Serves as a single-source reference for rural nurses, students, faculty, and researchers Print version includes free, searchable, digital access to the entire contents of the book!

The enjoyable way of learning the math skills required to solve the many types of problems that may be encountered in the administering of medications and in the preparation of solutions. Using a reinforced learning system, the text is designed to present problems in a logical series. Each problem is designed to stimulate the student to derive the correct answer on the basis of information already learned. Students can immediately check their work against the correct answers.