Nursing Today: Transition and Trends by JoAnn Zerwekh, Jo Carol Claborn

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Whether it's passing the NCLEX or surviving practice, the real world can leave even the best students scared and unprepared. That's why it's important that students learn the most up-to-date, relevant information on the challenges and opportunities they will face upon graduation. With new chapters, a new full-color design, and content covering the hottest topics in nursing today, students will discover that the 5th edition of this market-leading issues and trends text is an easy-to-use source for understanding the professional skills needed for practice.

• The NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate chapter is dedicated to success on the NCLEX-RN exam, including valuable tips on how to prepare for and pass the exam.
  
• The Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes and Interviewing chapter combines in-depth coverage on seeking employment, resume writing, and interviewing techniques and prepares students to find and get the job they want.
  
• Updated content on effective communication and team building, conflict management, collective bargaining, and nursing informatics.
  
• Other outstanding features include lively cartoons, chapter objectives and exercises, boxed information, and critical thinking questions to keep students focused on pertinent information.

• Full-color design highlights important information and enhances visual appeal.
  
• Updated Table of Contents and streamlined organization improves the flow of material covered.
  
• New chapter on Mentoring and Preceptorship provides an in-depth look at strategies useful when assuming these roles in practice.
  
• New chapter on NursingTheories includes discussion on nursing theorists, how nursing theory is used in practice, and the future of nursing theory.
  
• New chapter on Work Place Issues includes timely information on workplace advocacy, the nursing shortage, mandatory overtime, workplace safety, and bioterrorism.
  
• New chapter on Quality Patient Care focuses on quality management principles and their subsequent effect on both external and internal forces, and the role of the nurse in quality process improvement.
  
• New chapter on Cultural & Spiritual Awareness describes cultural competence and the principles of culturally competent care and how end-of-life issues impact nursing practice.

Betsy Frank

This book is the third edition of a popular issues and trends text. The editors have revised and updated the chapters and added several new chapters -- ""Health in the Community: Nursing's Role"" and ""Alternative and Complementary Health Care."" In response to the demand for more management content, the editors include a chapter entitled ""Group Process and Team Building."" The editors state that the purpose is to help the student who is about to graduate become aware of the transition process involved in coping with the realities of a rapidly changing practice environment. The text is for use in the typical transition course offered in the senior or final year of a pre-licensure registered nurse program. Certainly such a text is needed to help students prepare for their entrance into the practice arena. The primary audience is students in Associate Degree, Diploma, or Baccalaureate programs who are in the final phases of their educational careers. The editors provide an overview of many topics, and this book could also be used as a reference for the new graduate who is faced with a multiplicity of transition issues. However, an in-depth study of any one issue would require further reading in other sources such as journal articles or other texts. The conversational writing style makes this book exceptionally easy to read. Important points are highlighted and thoughtful questions and exercises are included. Cartoons add a humorous approach to illustrating the content. The Internet references provide on-line sites for further exploration of issues, and the web site, when activated, will provide faculty with frequent updates of content. Currently, faculty receive updates via asemi-annual newsletter. This updated text will be quite useful in transitions/issues and trends courses for pre-licensure students.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Betsy Frank, RN, PhD (Indiana State University School of Nursing)
Description:This book is the third edition of a popular issues and trends text. The editors have revised and updated the chapters and added several new chapters:"Health in the Community: Nursing's Role" and "Alternative and Complementary Health Care." In response to the demand for more management content, the editors include a chapter entitled "Group Process and Team Building."
Purpose:The editors state that the purpose is to help the student who is about to graduate become aware of the transition process involved in coping with the realities of a rapidly changing practice environment. The text is for use in the typical transition course offered in the senior or final year of a pre-licensure registered nurse program. Certainly such a text is needed to help students prepare for their entrance into the practice arena.
Audience:The primary audience is students in Associate Degree, Diploma, or Baccalaureate programs who are in the final phases of their educational careers. The editors provide an overview of many topics, and this book could also be used as a reference for the new graduate who is faced with a multiplicity of transition issues. However, an in-depth study of any one issue would require further reading in other sources such as journal articles or other texts.
Features:The conversational writing style makes this book exceptionally easy to read. Important points are highlighted and thoughtful questions and exercises are included. Cartoons add a humorous approach to illustrating the content. TheInternet references provide on-line sites for further exploration of issues, and the web site, when activated, will provide faculty with frequent updates of content. Currently, faculty receive updates via a semi-annual newsletter.
Assessment:This updated text will be quite useful in transitions/issues and trends courses for pre-licensure students.

Rating

4 Stars from Doody

Product Details

• ISBN: 1416023135
  
• ISBN-13: 9781416023135
• Format: Textbook Paperback, 688pp
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Pub. Date: December 2005
• Edition Description: REV
• Edition Number: 5
• Sales Rank: 16,795

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