Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends and Management - Softcover

Cherry MSN, Barbara; Jacob, Susan R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323052177 ISBN 13: 9780323052177

Publisher: Mosby, 2007

Synopsis

"Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends and Management" is currently one of the leading Issues and Trends text on the market! The fourth edition will continue to be a popular choice for undergraduate nursing students. Barbara Cherry and Susan Jacob, who continue to combine their own expertise from both the academic and practice worlds, thoroughly cover topics based on today's trends in nursing practice. Starting with the evolution of nursing, this text discusses nursing licensure and certification, work place advocacy, emergency preparedness, health policy and budgeting issues facing nurses. The authors have reorganized the content by combining similar topics to avoid redundancy and ensure more cohesiveness throughout all the chapters.

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Review

"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."

- Book News, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323052177
• ISBN 13: 9780323052177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 640