Nursing Today: Transition And Trends

Loved for its humor readability and inviting cartoons Nursing Today Transitions and Trends 9th Edition helps you prepare for the NCLEX-RN Examination - while giving you valuable information to succeed in your professional career It reflects current issues and trending topics that nurses will face ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills but also with career development skills such as resume writing finding a job and effective interviewing This edition features test-taking tips for the NCLEX-RN Examination and updated Evolve resources for students including review questions and case studiesThorough coverage of all the most important issues faced by the new nurse preparing you for a professional career An engaging approach features lively cartoons chapter objectives
bibliographies and colorful summary boxesAn 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?Mentorship and PreceptorshipCritical Thinking boxes in every chapter offer questions and exercises asking you to apply what you have learned to clinical practiceEvidence-Based Practice boxes and evidence-based practice content throughout focus your attention on the research evidence that supports clinical practice? Content on the role of nursing includes changes related to the BSN in 10 campaign and how these might affect entry into practice as well as differentiated nursing practice modelsMentoring and preceptorship content discusses preceptorships as a capstone
course versus a formalized preceptorship or nurse externship in which a student is employed by a healthcare facility as well as the advantages of and tips for getting a nurse externship while in nursing schoolNEW and UPDATED! Thoroughly updated content throughout with new information on areas such as 2016 NCLEX test plan and passfail determinates by level of difficulty interprofessional education serious reportable events and never events and nursing responsibilities in spiritual care UPDATED! New content on leadership and followership features professional models of nursing practice like medical or health homes and nurse-managed health centersEXPANDED! Added QSEN competencies related to effective communication team building evidence-based practice patient safety and quality assurance
highlighted throughoutUPDATED and IMPROVED! Section restructuring makes this edition even easier to follow UPDATED! Evolve resources for students include review questions and case studies