Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 5e (Cherry, Contemporary Nursing)

Well-known educators and medical professionals Barbara Cherry, DNSc, MBA, RN, NEA-BC and Susan R. Jacob, PhD, MSN, RN team up to provide students with a preparatory resource in their textbook Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 5e (Cherry, Contemporary Nursing), ISBN 9780323069533. This text sets out to prepare nursing students and practicing nurses for the ever-changing world of health care through an all-inclusive framework of nursing topics and managerial issues impacting today's practices. The most comprehensive coverage of nursing trends and issues focuses on leadership and management in nursing, career management, safe and effective decision making, the ins and outs of the nursing role, teamwork, and cultural sensitivity, nursing leadership, as well as communication skills. Fully revised and updated, this edition boasts a myriad of new and refined features including a full-color design program to illustrate concepts and enhance readability, entertaining cartoons used to introduce chapter themes, chapter-opening real-life vignettes, as well as the inclusion of key terms, learning outcomes, and chapter overviews to help students study more effectively. An added bonus offered with this resource is the companion Evolve website which gives students access to new case studies, interactive student learning activities, as well as a resume builder. Barbara Cherry, DNSc, MBA, RN, NEA-BC and Susan R. Jacob, PhD, MSN, RN effectively organize the concepts of Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 5e (Cherry, Contemporary Nursing) across 26 comprehensive chapters. Chapters present topics such as the evolution and contemporary image of professional nursing, theories of nursing practice, the influence of contemporary trends and issues on nursing education, nursing licensure and certification, legal, ethical, and bioethical issues, and health policy and politics. Other topics discussed include workplace advocacy and the nursing shortage, nursing informatics and clinical information systems, complementary and alternative healing, nursing leadership and management, effective communication, conflict resolution, delegation, and supervision, as well as the NCLEX-RN exam.