Contemporary Nursing

<p>With an understanding of healthcare issues, you can improve patient care and advance the nursing profession! <b>Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 9th Edition </b>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<SUP>®</SUP> examination, but for effective leadership and management in the workplace.</p><ul><b> <li>Vignettes at the beginning of each chapter</b> personalize nursing practice and history, and help you understand your place in the profession. </li> <li><b>Full-color illustrations and design </b>demonstrate concepts and make the text visually appealing.</li> <li><b>Case studies </b>help you apply theory to clinical practice.</li> <li><b>Colorful, humorous</b> <b>cartoons </b>depict the themes in each chapter. </li> <li><b>Key terms</b>,<b> learning outcomes, and chapter overviews </b>begin each chapter, helping you organize and focus your study, and a <b>summary</b> at the end of each chapter reinforces the key points to remember. </li> <li><b><i>Professional/Ethical Issue</i> in every chapter </b>tests your ability to think critically and apply concepts to a real-life dilemma.</li> <li><b><i>Unit 3:</b> <b>Leadership and Management in Nursing</b></i> guides you through skills such as budgeting, communication and conflict resolution, staffing, health policy and politics, and more. </li> <li><b><i>Unit 4:</b> <b>Career Management </b></i>describes how to make the transition from student to professional, including time management, career opportunities, and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN<SUP>®</SUP> examination.</li></ul><ul><b> <li>NEW! Information on COVID-19</b> 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.</li> <li><b>NEW! <i>Clinical Judgment</i> chapter</b> emphasizes the development of clinical reasoning skills.</li> <li><b>NEW! Additional coverage in <i>Theories of Nursing Practice</i> chapter</b> includes the application of theories in nursing practice, Watson’s theory of caring, and Swanson’s middle range theory.</li> <li><b>NEW! Updated coverage of delegation and supervision</b> includes the most current guidelines from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.</li> <li><b>NEW! Updates to contemporary trends and issues </b>include AACN essentials, associate degree-BSN, nursing education in other countries, online programs, distance education, and more.</li> <li><b>NEW! Updates in <i>Paying for Health Care in America</i> chapter</b> cover current payment models, the social determinants of health, and healthcare access.</li> <li><b>NEW! Additional information on CBD oil and the legalization of marijuana</b> is included.</li></ul>