Full Description
Transition from student to professional with confidence. Stepping out of the classroom and into professional nursing practice can be stressful. This handy guide will build your confidence and prepare you to meet the challenges you'll face as a new staff nurse in today's dynamic health-care environments. You'll explore your future responsibilities as a leader and a manager and the workplace issues and trends that you'll encounter in practice.
Revised, Expanded & Updated! Encompassing the expanding challenges and responsibilities of nurses in practice today, the current health care environment, safety and quality initiatives, and changes in nursing practice
New & Expanded! Content on diversity, the aging population, and LGBTQ+ community as well as resilience in times of unexpected stress and nurses as creative innovators
Updated! Case studies with questions that promote clinical judgment
End-of-chapter Case Studies, Study Questions, and NCLEX®-style review questions with answers and rationales in the appendix
Comprehensive, practical advice on how to develop and sustain a successful nursing career
Coverage of the concepts essential to assuming leadership and management roles as well as career mobility, advanced degrees, magnet status, practice levels, and professional organizations
Coverage of quality and safety issues, including the roles of QSEN, the Institute of Medicine, research, and evidence-based practice
Self-assessment tools to identify personal strengths and empower the development of leadership skills
Integrated coverage of Canadian nursing
Contents
I.Professionalism
1.Characteristics of a Profession
2.Professional Ethics and Values
3.Nursing Practice and the Law
II.Leading and Managing
4.Leadership and Followership
5.The Nurse as a Manager of Care
6.Delegation and Prioritization of Client Care Staffing
7.Communicating With Others and Working With the Interprofessional Team
8.Resolving Problems and Conflicts
III.Healthcare Organizations
9.Organizations, Power and Professional Empowerment
10.Organizations, People and Change
11.Quality and Safety
12.Maintaining a Safe Work Environment
13.Promoting a Healthy Work Environments
IV.Your Nursing Career
14.Launching your Career
15.Advancing your Career
V.Looking to the Future
16.What the Future Holds
Appendices
1.Standards Published by the American Nurses Association
2.Guidelines for the Registered Nurse in Giving, Accepting, or Rejecting a Work Assignment
3.National Council of State Boards of Nursing Guidelines for Using Social Media Appropriately
4.Answers to NCLEX Review Questions
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