Authors: Barbara Cherry, Susan R. Jacob
ISBN-13: 9780323069533, ISBN-10: 0323069533
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Date Published: August 2010
Edition: 5th Edition
Cherry, Barbara, MSN, MBA, RN; Jacob, Susan R., BSN, MSN, PhD
Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 5th Edition prepares you for the rapidly evolving world of health care. It provides a comprehensive, yet focused overview of nursing topics affecting practice and issues facing today's nurse managers and tomorrow's nurse leaders. Written by well-known educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this edition is fully revised and updated, giving you the most practical, balanced preparation for the issues, trends, and management topics you'll encounter in practice.
• A full-color design helps illustrate concepts and enhances readability.
• Colorful, humorous cartoons introduce the chapter themes.
• Real-life Vignettes at the beginning of each chapter put nursing history and practice into perspective.
• Questions to Consider While Reading This Chapter reflect on the Vignettes and prepare you for the material to follow.
• Key Terms, Learning Outcomes, and Chapter Overviews help you study more efficiently.
• Coverage of leadership and management in nursing prepares you to function effectively in management roles.
• Coverage of career management provides strategies on how to make the transition from student to practitioner and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN® Examination.
• Safe and effective decision making is emphasized with a new Quality and Safety in Nursing Education (QSEN) chapter that highlights the six core quality competencies for working in a quality-focused system, plus new information on clinical practice guidelines and innovations in health care delivery.
• A focus on the nursing role includes new content on the jurisprudence examinations now required in many states, and additional content on contemporary ethical issues such as stem cell research, surrogate parenting, abortion, and gene typing.
• Coverage of teamwork and cultural sensitivity prepares you to work and communicate as team members across gender and cultural divides.
• Communication skills are promoted with new examples of effective and ineffective e-mail communication and a stronger focus on conflict management among coworkers.
• Coverage of nursing leadership includes the history, pros, and cons of collective bargaining in a new chapter, and relationships of cost, quality, and value in healthcare including issues such as "never events" and pay-for-performance.
• Nursing opportunities now include coverage of palliative care.
• Resources on the companion Evolve website include new Case Studies, interactive Student Learning Activities, and a Resume Builder.
1 | The evolution of professional nursing | 1 |
2 | The contemporary image of professional nursing | 28 |
3 | Theories of nursing practice | 47 |
4 | The influence of contemporary trends and issues on nursing education | 63 |
5 | Nursing licensure and certification | 91 |
6 | Financing health care and economic issues | 107 |
7 | Nursing in the ever-evolving health care system | 126 |
8 | Legal issues in nursing and health care | 145 |
9 | Ethical and bioethical issues in nursing and health care | 189 |
10 | Health policy and politics : get involved! | 211 |
11 | Cultural competency and social issues in nursing and health care | 235 |
12 | Workplace advocacy and the nursing shortage | 261 |
13 | Emergency preparedness and response for today's world | 292 |
14 | Nursing informatics and clinical information systems | 313 |
15 | Complementary and alternative healing | 338 |
16 | Nursing leadership and management | 357 |
17 | Effective communication and conflict resolution | 391 |
18 | Effective delegation and supervision | 421 |
19 | Staffing and nursing care delivery models | 443 |
20 | Nursing's role in improving the quality of health care | 467 |
21 | Nursing research | 492 |
22 | Making the transition from student to professional nurse | 515 |
23 | Managing time : the path to high self-performance | 536 |
24 | Contemporary nursing roles and career opportunities | 560 |
25 | Job search : finding your match | 582 |
26 | NCLEX-RN examination | 604 |