Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends and Management - Softcover

Cherry MSN, Barbara; Jacob, Susan R.

9780323016315: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends and Management

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323016316 ISBN 13: 9780323016315

Publisher: Mosby, 2001

This exciting new edition presents a comprehensive overview of the dynamic trends and issues that are shaping nursing education today. Timely, engaging discussions focus on the healthcare delivery system as well as the nursing practices that will affect current and future professional roles and responsibilities.

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"Cherry (nursing, Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center) and Jacob (nursing, U. of Tennessee Health Science Center) offer a textbook for nursing students and practicing nurses to the issues and strategies involved in contemporary nursing from the patient care level to the national legislative arena that can improve care, the health care system, and the profession. The 28 chapters written by American nursing specialists include discussion of issues such as health care financing and economics, complementary and alternative healing, the nursing shortage, technology, leadership and management, and career management. This edition has new chapters on quality and safety education and collective bargaining; updated safety coverage throughout the text; new content on the jurisprudence exams and discussions of ethical and bioethical issues such as stem cell research, surrogate parenting, abortion, and gene typing; more emphasis on communication skills; discussions of "never events," pay-for-performance, and the relationship of cost, quality, and value in health care delivery; new case studies; and new coverage of technologies, disaster planning, legal issues, and the 2010 NCLEX-RN Examination Test Plan. Activities, case studies, questions, and other resources are available online."

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